[the_old_crowd] Re: some thoughts after rereading book #2

[JoAnna Wahlund]

Huh. Upon doing some looking at Mugglenet.com <http://Mugglenet.com>, I 
found this tidbit<http://www.mugglenet.com/books/futurebooks/book6facts.shtml>
:

On August 16th, the door on JKR's site opened giving us the following 
excerpt of book 6, which describes the Half-Blood Prince:

*(He) looked rather like an old lion. There were streaks of grey in his mane 
of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish eyes behind a 
pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping grace even though 
he walked with a slight limp.* 

I was aware that the text above described a new character, but NOT aware 
that the character in question was the HBP! Is this true?

On 7/11/05, davewitley <dfrankiswork at ...> wrote:
> 
>  JoAnna wrote:
> 
> > I don't have my book handy, nor did I have a notepad available 
> when these 
> > thoughts occurred, just FYI. :)
> 
> > Since JKR said that CoS has the most clues as to who is the half-
> blood 
> > prince, I took special care upon rereading to look for such clues.
> 
> > All joking aside, I'm still puzzled as to the identity of the HBP. 
> Upon 
> > re-reading it seemed to be that the most likely candidates would 
> be Harry or 
> > Tom Riddle/LV, but JKR has already said that neither are the HBP. 
> I am 
> > thinking that, perhaps, the HBP is Salazar Slytherin... wouldn't 
> THAT 
> > revelation turn the pure-blood movement on its tail!
> 
> I think your difficulty may be with what JKR has said about CoS. I 
> don't think she said anything as blatant as that it has clues to the 
> identity of the HBP. I can't now remember where she mentioned the 
> connection, but IIRC it was much more vague - that stuff in CoS is 
> significant to the things we will learn in HBP. It may even be only 
> that some material was originally going to be in CoS but was pulled.
> 
> For example, I don't think she has said anything to rule out it 
> being a new character.
> 
> For my money, the link is that the HBP is connected with the 
> Hogwarts founders and that era, which was also covered a little in 
> CoS but not the other books.
> 
> There seem to be a number of critical backstory periods:
> 
> Founders - COS, HBP?
> Young Voldemort - COS, GOF
> Marauder era - POA, OOP
> Godric's Hollow - PS, POA (and a bit GOF - wand order!)
> 
> I'm betting we don't get the full story on Godric's Hollow until 
> Book 7, and likewise the complete Snape backstory (i.e. marauder 
> era) will be kept back until then. Which leaves the Young Voldemort 
> era as the other possibility. Perhaps the HBP is Grindelwald, Heir 
> of Hufflepuff, who Dumbledore 'defeated' but did not necessarily 
> kill.
> 
> David 
> 
> 
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~JoAnna~


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