some thoughts after rereading book #2

Smythe, Boyd T {FLNA} boyd.t.smythe at boyd_smythe.yahoo.invalid
Tue Jul 12 13:45:22 UTC 2005


JoAnna wrote:
>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!<

Yep, that's been my guess, too. Just feels so...right, doesn't it? Maybe
Salazar, the original pureblood lover, is running from his own "tainted"
bloodline, just like Riddle has been. Jo does love to give her characters
complex back stories. Doesn't necessarily mean that Voldemort or the DEs
would find out Sally was less than pure, though; they don't seem to have
discovered LV's past yet.

And if that is in fact a pensieve on the cover, then mightn't it be old
Slytherin's? The perfect place for us to see that lion-like character, who
is likely to be Godric, and for the back story of the founders to be
revealed--those pages that didn't quite fit into CoS. And I think if it were
Godric's that DD would have known where it was and visited it before,
whereas Salazar's might be unknown, hidden, or accessible only to a
parseltongue, like Harry. Perhaps there is also a secret to be revealed in
Salazar's pensieve that will lead Harry to an understanding of how, at last,
to defeat the current Dark Lord. That would lend the struggle against LV a
more weighty, epic quality.

And I personally have my fingers crossed that Harry also learns what
terrible devastation will accompany the defeat of LV. Bring on the carnage,
Jo! :)

--boyd
Yep, CoS is my favorite book so far!




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