Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

[Tharkun]

Well, Luna hasn't been mentioned for the first four books, and it's clear she's becoming a major character. That's beside the point. Just JKR stated on her website that Dean's background probably wouldn't be in future books. Yup, bye bye Dean.

[Koku]

What about Viktor Crum? Nobody's mentioned the odd fellow from GoF o.O;;

It's highly unlikely that it would be anyone not mentioned in CoS.

I thought about Godric Gryffindor for a while, but moved on to Salazar Slytherin, which still didn't feel right.
My theory still stands. It's Tom Riddle. He's the half-blood prince. And Slytherin is the half-blood king. =D
**adds more to theory** Maybe it's more than blood that made Tom the heir. Perhaps Salazar's 'spirit' or whatever chose Tom as his heir based on his past. I just have this strong feeling that Salazar's past is similar to Riddle's past (which is described a bit in CoS, but mainly comes out in GoF).
**makes one last feeble attempt** Please let Tom Riddle be the HBP and Salazar Slytherin be the HBK **cries and looks feebly towards England** J.K. wherever you are... PLEASE?!

(I've been awake for 29 hours, please ignore any insanity in the above post)

Was Salazar Slytherin half-blooded? I'm pretty sure he was pure blooded, but I don't remember much about Harry Potter at the moment.

Half-Blood Prince, if in the case of Tom Riddle, probably has something to do with him being the Heir to Slytherin. But instead of being a normal pure blooded prince, like the "king", Salazar Slytherin, he's half blooded, adding that description into the title.

[Mark]

What about Viktor Crum? Nobody's mentioned the odd fellow from GoF o.O;;

It's highly unlikely that it would be anyone not mentioned in CoS.

I thought about Godric Gryffindor for a while, but moved on to Salazar Slytherin, which still didn't feel right.
My theory still stands. It's Tom Riddle. He's the half-blood prince. And Slytherin is the half-blood king. =D
**adds more to theory** Maybe it's more than blood that made Tom the heir. Perhaps Salazar's 'spirit' or whatever chose Tom as his heir based on his past. I just have this strong feeling that Salazar's past is similar to Riddle's past (which is described a bit in CoS, but mainly comes out in GoF).
**makes one last feeble attempt** Please let Tom Riddle be the HBP and Salazar Slytherin be the HBK **cries and looks feebly towards England** J.K. wherever you are... PLEASE?!

(I've been awake for 29 hours, please ignore any insanity in the above post)

Was Salazar Slytherin half-blooded? I'm pretty sure he was pure blooded, but I don't remember much about Harry Potter at the moment.

Half-Blood Prince, if in the case of Tom Riddle, probably has something to do with him being the Heir to Slytherin. But instead of being a normal pure blooded prince, like the "king", Salazar Slytherin, he's half blooded, adding that description into the title.

Yes, Salazar was pure blood. That's why Slytherin wanted to make Hogwarts open to only the pure blood families, but the other 3 founders disagreed.

It's most likely Tom Riddle, but knowing JK Rowling, that's too obvious. It's someone we probably never would think.

But we can't rule out Mark Evans. JK Rowling said that she was going to put a lot of info in book 2, but it gave too much away. She could have waited a few books and casually dropped the character's name and we thought nothing of it. I dunno.. to little facts to go on at the moment.

[Sapphire Faerie]

I thought about Godric Gryffindor for a while, but moved on to Salazar Slytherin, which still didn't feel right.
My theory still stands. It's Tom Riddle. He's the half-blood prince. And Slytherin is the half-blood king. =D
**adds more to theory** Maybe it's more than blood that made Tom the heir. Perhaps Salazar's 'spirit' or whatever chose Tom as his heir based on his past. I just have this strong feeling that Salazar's past is similar to Riddle's past (which is described a bit in CoS, but mainly comes out in GoF).
**makes one last feeble attempt** Please let Tom Riddle be the HBP and Salazar Slytherin be the HBK **cries and looks feebly towards England** J.K. wherever you are... PLEASE?!

(I've been awake for 29 hours, please ignore any insanity in the above post)

Was Salazar Slytherin half-blooded? I'm pretty sure he was pure blooded, but I don't remember much about Harry Potter at the moment.

Half-Blood Prince, if in the case of Tom Riddle, probably has something to do with him being the Heir to Slytherin. But instead of being a normal pure blooded prince, like the "king", Salazar Slytherin, he's half blooded, adding that description into the title.

Yes, Salazar was pure blood. That's why Slytherin wanted to make Hogwarts open to only the pure blood families, but the other 3 founders disagreed.

It's most likely Tom Riddle, but knowing JK Rowling, that's too obvious. It's someone we probably never would think.

It never says whether Salazar was a pure blood or not, it's just something easily assumed because he wanted only pure bloods at the school. But, I like being illogical and looking at it through the hypocritical angle, that Salazar was a half-blood hating half-blood, like Tom turned out to be.
Either way, the theory that it's Tom Riddle still works, sine Sasha's pointed out what I was too wrapped up to see:

Half-Blood Prince, if in the case of Tom Riddle, probably has something to do with him being the Heir to Slytherin. But instead of being a normal pure blooded prince, like the "king", Salazar Slytherin, he's half blooded, adding that description into the title.

Whoo.

[Mark]

Well, the Do Not Disturbed sign is back up on that door on jkrowling.com

She said that every time it opens there should be new info!!

[Tharkun]

Well, the Do Not Disturbed sign is back up on that door on jkrowling.com

She said that every time it opens there should be new info!!

But first, combination-guessing that puts Myst to shame for its frustration factor. Augh, am I glad that other people are willing to waste the time.

Anyway, that two-way mirror is going to be very useful in the final books, what d'you make of that? I don't think it'll have the apparent meaning (no one seems to believe whatever Rowling keeps beating us over the head with, but I do), but I'm lost as to what meaning it will have.

[atomicblonde]

Random thought (I take no responsibility for the awful poorly thought out theory that follows... it's late! )

Maybe Hagrid is the HBP? The interaction between wizards and other creatures is going to play a huge role in the next two books. Maybe he's a half-blood giant prince? </awfultheory>

[Jo]

I hope it's a new character. JKR said it was nothing to do with either Harry or Voldie.

[Gpup]

Now, canidates for the throne. Have we already ruled out Harry? I mean, we can't have Harry referring to himself in the third person all through book six, and maybe seven. Introducing Harry Potter, and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter. 0_o

That's a good one XD

The Tom Riddle theory sounds good, but from the rumors section on her site, it's fairly obvious that JKR knows people over anylise her books, so saying it's not Voldermort would automatically make people think that it's Riddle. So it's probably someone seriously odd, who's mentioned in the second book but very little is said about. Or Hagrid.

The Mark Evans thing is seriously bugging me. I mean, why would she add a charactor with that surname, if they wern't related. Or, the over anyliseation(sp?) thing again. Either way, it's annoying.

[Twinkle]

Random thought (I take no responsibility for the awful poorly thought out theory that follows... it's late! )

Maybe Hagrid is the HBP? The interaction between wizards and other creatures is going to play a huge role in the next two books. Maybe he's a half-blood giant prince? </awfultheory>

Bloody cheek! I posted that earlier when I was half asleep but nobody thought it was important enough to comment on

[Mark]

Now, canidates for the throne. Have we already ruled out Harry? I mean, we can't have Harry referring to himself in the third person all through book six, and maybe seven. Introducing Harry Potter, and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter. 0_o

That's a good one XD

The Tom Riddle theory sounds good, but from the rumors section on her site, it's fairly obvious that JKR knows people over anylise her books, so saying it's not Voldermort would automatically make people think that it's Riddle. So it's probably someone seriously odd, who's mentioned in the second book but very little is said about. Or Hagrid.

The Mark Evans thing is seriously bugging me. I mean, why would she add a charactor with that surname, if they wern't related. Or, the over anyliseation(sp?) thing again. Either way, it's annoying.

Yes, we have ruled out Harry. JK Rowling said on her site that it's NOT Harry or Voldemort. That's all she would say though.

[atomicblonde]

Random thought (I take no responsibility for the awful poorly thought out theory that follows... it's late! )

Maybe Hagrid is the HBP? The interaction between wizards and other creatures is going to play a huge role in the next two books. Maybe he's a half-blood giant prince? </awfultheory>

Bloody cheek! I posted that earlier when I was half asleep but nobody thought it was important enough to comment on

lol, I didn't read the rest of the thread before I posted. *blush* GMTA huh?

[Koku]

Random thought (I take no responsibility for the awful poorly thought out theory that follows... it's late! )

Maybe Hagrid is the HBP? The interaction between wizards and other creatures is going to play a huge role in the next two books. Maybe he's a half-blood giant prince? </awfultheory>

It's actually a pretty good theory, but I dunno how Hagrid would branch out into some sort of royalty. Halfblood can mean half human half giant...but I dunno much about Hagrid to tell. ._.

[spacecase33]

Random thought (I take no responsibility for the awful poorly thought out theory that follows... it's late! )

Maybe Hagrid is the HBP? The interaction between wizards and other creatures is going to play a huge role in the next two books. Maybe he's a half-blood giant prince? </awfultheory>

It's actually a pretty good theory, but I dunno how Hagrid would branch out into some sort of royalty. Halfblood can mean half human half giant...but I dunno much about Hagrid to tell. ._.

I think Hagrid is quite a good possibility. We don't know too much about Giant society...perhaps they have some sort of royalty? We do know that they have tribal leaders (I forget the name at the moment) at least.

Despite the fact that Mark Evans wasn't mentioned in book 2, I also still think that he is a possibility. It is likely that there is a reason that a character with Lily's last name was briefly mentioned...something like that is too good to be a coincidence. Also, we don't know if JKR could have planned on introducing him in book 2 but delayed it.

[Koku]

Off topic on the theory, but worthy of its own note:

http://en1.chinabroadcast.cn/1174/2004- ... 127703.htm

Michael Moore's agreed to direct the sixth Harry Potter movie.