Horcrux thriller

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <judy at j...> wrote:

<< Well, I had speculated that the potions book was a horcrux 
before I finished Book 6.  It is interesting how the book almost 
got Harry to kill Draco, but still, I tend now to think the book 
isn't a Horcrux. If it were a horcrux, wouldn't Hermione's "specialis
revelio" spell have shown it was enchanted? >>

I thought there was some revelation to be made about why the book had
such powers of attracting Harry to trust it and tempting him to use
its spells without even knowing what they did.

It *did* obey Hermione's specialis revelio spell by falling open to
the inscription "This book belongs to the Half-Blood Prince." We may
not yet know the entire meaning of that inscription. 

However, if it was just that Snape had owned the book and written at
least the hexes in it and possibly also the potion recipe notes, the
book is not a Snape Horcrux -- Snape has no Horcruces as his eyes
never turn red.

But could the Half-Blood Prince still have been another entity that
possessed Snape and tried to possess Harry?