CoS vs. HBP & SHIP: H/G, Lupin/Tonks

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 156360

Brothergib:
> ... Tonks in HBP (Her patronus has changed due to her unrequited
> love for Lupin)

Dave:
Her love for Lupin wasn't/isn't unrequited -- Remus was just doing the
Bogie-as-Rick-in-Casablanca bit. (Much as Harry is doing with Ginny at
the end of HBP -- See below.)


Julie:
jac> But didn't JKR also say the title of the second book was  going to
jac> be "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"? If so, then the Half
jac> Blood Prince was going to be present and part of the story. Which
jac> means either Snape would have been revealed as a half-blood at
jac> that early point (before he'd even been revealed as a Death Eater!)
jac> ...

Dave:
Perhaps the original plot of Book 2 didn't involve a Chamber or the
monster that lived in it at all...  Maybe the whole book was to
basically involve Harry finding the Diary, which then revealed *many*
of Riddle's memories (which ended up in Dumbledore's Pensieve in Book
6), and then Harry fought Diary!Riddle and destroyed the Horcrux.

I think the HBP was originally to be Riddle... Almost certainly Snape
was always meant to be an enigma, so Dumbledore must have explained
Horcruxes to Harry after the Diary was destroyed.  Snape probably had
little to do with it.  Maybe the words, "This book is the property of
the HBP" was meant to appear in the Diary, rather than Riddle's name.


One other thought: I just re-read the last chapter of HBP, and
I was wondering if anyone else had noticed: Ginny refers to Voldemort
by name!!  I'm wondering what this may imply as far as Ginny's
"spunkiness" factor in Book 7.  I have a feeling she's not going to
stand around like a good little leading lady and let Harry just
march off into the fog (with Ron and Hermione standing
in for Claude Raines).  Besides, Harry worries about LV finding out
about him and Ginny if they stay together -- But what makes him think
that Snape hasn't informed LV already??

-- 
Dave