[the_old_crowd] HBP Release Date

[Iggy McSnurd]

Yeah, I'm speaking in for the first time.

If the HBP is someone we've met already (and I don't think it's Neville, 
though I would love it to be, since he's one of my favorite characters in 
the book.), which is unlikely IMHO, I think it's one of two people.  Hagrid, 
who's mother,  IIRC, becomes the leader... or queen... of a tribe of giants, 
perhaps making him a prince, and he's a half blood giant/human.  The other, 
and I don't know of it's been mentioned (sorry, life has been VERY busy for 
me and I haven't been able to keep up with as much as I'd like.), is 
possibly Snape.  I never recall hearing word one about him being a 
pureblood, and it would be one HELL of a secret for him to be hiding.  Not 
to mention that it may be one of the reasons Dumbledore believes he's turned 
from Voldemort.  Bonds of blood can have strong magic, but so can the bonds 
of nobility and the oaths taken by them.  It can also be part of his reason 
for how he views the world... He is a hidden prince, which would put him in 
status above others in most societies, but he's a half-blood, and in secret, 
so he has to put up with being placed in lower social status than even the 
"snot nosed little brats" he has to teach... and the fellow students of his 
of pureblood line who tormented when he went to school himself.

BTW: I don't know if it's been mentioned on this list (the only one I'm 
subscribed to right now), but everyone does know that they announced on 
Nickelodeon Love that JKR stated that one of Harry's friends wouldn't make 
it out of the next book alive?  (This implies Ron or Hermione, but he's got 
a lot of friends, including all of the Weasleys, Hagrid, Dumbledore, 
McGonagall, many of the people in the DADA, and a number of others...)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "harpdreamer" <pbnesbit at ...>
To: <the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 5:27 PM
Subject: [the_old_crowd] HBP Release Date


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> Holiday Greetings, All!
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> I guess by now everyone's heard that the release date for Book 6 is
> 16 July.  I've been giving the person of the title some thought & I
> think the Half-Blood Prince just might be Neville.
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> Hope everyone's holiday is a happy one, especially you, Neil.  Please
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