Who do you think the half-blood is?

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Who do you think is the Half Blood Prince?

• Colin Creevey
  
• Dennis Creevey
  
• Dudley Dursley
  
• Mark Evans
  
• Seamus Finnegan
  
• Rubeus Hagrid
  
• Viktor Krum
  
• Someone else

The Creevy's are muggle borns. I think it could be Hagrid.

Gut instinct, Seamus Finnegan

First thing I thought when I read the title. Me Mum's a Witch, Dad's a Muggle. Nasty shock when he found out. Don't know what made me think of him first.

Never really had a big role in any of the books, other than being Harry's dorm mate.

Then in the last book, Seamus is mentioned a little more often. His mother didn't want him associating with Harry. Why make this happen? I wondered what that was all about. Of the five Gryffindor boys in Harry's year, Seamus is the only half-blood. Harry, Ron, and Neville are full blood and Dean is Muggle born.

It very well could be Seamus. I just picked Hagrid to be odd.

Hey, it could be anyone.

Do we think the half-blood prince is a good person or a bad one?

Good question. No idea. I have to think about this for a couple days.

I think we should look at the trend

Sorcerers Stone-something Volemort wanted
Chamber of Secrets-something Volemort wanted opened
Prisoner of Azkaban-accused of aiding voldepoo, but was good
Goblet of Fire-transported Harry to Voldie
Order of the Phoenix-good group worked against Voldie

Could it possibly be Voldemort? He was half-blood.

No... JKR says on her site that it is NOT Voldemort OR Harry.

She has a habit of introducing something that will be important 2 books away. I think we need to take a look for half-bloods.

I just voted for someone else....

That's what I did too, Grant....

Justin Finch-Fletchy? I'm am just looking up names who really have no part in these books.

Justin is muggle born. I just re-read COS last night.

I reread Cos last night too. I haven't been able to come up with anything except Godric Gryffindor. We don't know anything about him, and Harry did pull his sword out of the hat. My gut is still with Seamus Finnigan though.

It is more of a possibility for Hagrid to be a prince than any of the others. However it could also easilt be Victor Krum. I dont think we know alot about their history.

Krum is more than likely a pure blood. His school is very picky about who they accept.

Hey I dunno if Sirius is half-blood?

No, the Black family is a pure blood family...

There are four families that we know for sure are pure bloods,

Blacks
Malfoys (and pretty much anyone in Slytherin house for that matter.)
Weasleys
Longbottems

I'm pretty sure that somewhere it says that the Potter side of Harry's family is pure blood too.

You know I honestly think it could be Hagrid... because we never knew much about his mom other than that she left his dad and was a giant.. and JKR has been making big deals about Giant wars for 5 books now in proffessor binns class. Also in COS they cleared hagrids name, so he does play a pretty big role in the book. Maybe the information she took out was about him.

And we know that the Giants are going to side with Voldie poo, so It might take a Half Blood Prince to stop the war.

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I'm also not too sure about the whole godric griffindor thing.. yea i guess he very well could have been a halfblood, but hes dead. In COS it was his hat that really helped harry and not Godric himself. Although the name " Godrics Hollow" makes me wonder.. but i just dont think he's the prince we're looking for.

I kind of get the feeling JKR will pull out an entirely new character on us.

What if the halfblood prince is their new DADA teacher or something?

I'm pretty sure it's Godric Gryffindor. JK said there was some information that she decided not to include in Book 2 and it certainly seems like she was holding something back with the whole hat-sword thing. If unexplained, it's a bit of a random plot device.

Yeah, it was never explained why Harry was able to pull the sword out of the hat. Or why Fawkes showed up at exactly the right moment.

hm, but dumbledore explained it more as it being Harry calling fawkes.. he didnt even mention godric when he was talking with harry afterwards he said " First of all, Harry, I want to thank you. You must have shown me real loyalty down in the chamber. Nothing but that could haev called Fawkes to you." - Ch 18 he said " nothing but" .. I still don't completely understand how fawkes got down there, but well firstly I'd assumer fawkes is a very smart bird, secondly i dno just an idea but what if there is a special wand trick to call for help. Or somthing, like when harry dropped his wand and he got the Night bus. I think it was like Harry was calling for help without even noticing it.

You know wouldn't it be odd if Salazar had been a half blood, i mean i know that he was all for pure bloods. But then ... voldmort is a half blood and he goes for pures too.

Does anyone remember if snape was a pureblood or not?

i wonder...

I just think it's strange that no one knew how to get into the chamber, except Fawkes. And he knew to take the hat with him.

I don't think it ever says if Snape is a pureblood or not, but I'm assuming he is because he called Lily a mudblood.

or maybe the halfblood isnt referring to wizarding blood at all

Maybe she means a half blood as in a centaur or mermaid... although i think this is HIGHLY DOUBTFUL.. its just a thought.

I could see something happening with the centaurs though... and well we do know that the races will play a big role

I'm still kind of leaning towards hagrid.

and about fawkes getting in and with the hat. Well the sorting hat isnt stupid, A. It can talk B. It's probably very much like Godric, and C. it can read minds. I wonder if this means that it can read the minds of animals as well as humans. Because if it could read fawkes mind then it may have known. Although I always thought that you had to be wearing the hat in order for it to read the mind.

Also about the chamber being open, well once harry opened it, its not like it closed again. Anyone who walked into that bathroom would have easily seen it.

Yeah, but no one ever went into moaning Myrtle's bathroom. That's why they used it to brew the potion.

yea but its not like fawkes couldnt have gotten in. Plus she may have even scented him out.. i dont know if phoenix's can do that..

there has to be more to the phoenix that we know. I mean think about it.. the whole order is named after the phoenix and im sure this bird will have a few big roles to play.

And Fawkes' tail feathers are in both Harry's and Voldemort's wands.

oh yea thats a really good point!

maybe theres some connection between harrys wand and fawkes... i mean of course there is.. but like maybe it can sense them or something!

I wonder if maybe in the 7th book when one of them aka voldmort will die, if there will be any effects on fawkes. I mean i dont think there would be, but if anything happens between the wands again.. who knows, it could affect fawkes.

I voted for Seamus Finnegan but I am reading your posts and am starting to think what if Hagrid's Mom was a queen or something he could be the half blood prince to get the giants onto the good side??? Who knows with J.K. though? What about Lupin, or what if Lupin had a brother Romulus and they are both the half blood prince one for each side ya know?

Seamus Finnigan is still my gut feeling, but I think Godric Gryffindor is a close second.

True, Seamus does seem like the type, and we don't know anything about Godric... but he was one of the original wizards of time. BUT It isn't Salazar, it could be Helga though... who knows???

hi,
Do you think that the HBP could be Neville? JKR has said that he plays a very important role! He was the best at Defence Against the Dark Arts (besides Hermione) in book.

Welcome to Review, gilligan... and to the HP forum.

Neville's parents were both wizards... so, he is a pure blood.

what important "thing" do you think he is apart of?

I think Neville's role is to show Harry about confidence. Neville never has had that. Now that he is gaining confidence, he is gaining strength. The important part should have to do with his parents and the gum wrappers. Mrs. Longbottom is trying to communicate with her son. What, we just don't know yet. Neville may prove to be an important helper for Harry.

good thinking!!!

Welcome to the forum gilliganB. We have a lot of threads, and a chapter by chapter discussion of book 5 to look for clues. I hope you stick around.

Welcome to INReview, GilliganB

Welcome! La la la. They're all being very normal at the moment, but really we all total looneys. Or maybe that's just me.....

And anyway, I think you're all totally wrong about Godric Gryffindor and Fawkes. Dumbledore explained it all at the end of book two. He showed great loyalty too Dumbledore, he had already said earlier "they make highly faithful pets" and as for how he got down there, Fawkes isn't an ordinary bird. Harry pulled the sword out of the hat because, as Dumbledore said "only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the hat". Godric Gryffindor would almost certainly have been pure-blood. And like someone said earlier, isn't a half-blood cross species, not just half a witch or wizard. And the Prince bit? is that just for effect or do we have royalty?

hey.... good to be here!!!

Some are looneys, some of us are just goofballs.

me to... but those are the best kind of people!

Hmmm Oliphaunt... good point, what exactly the 'prince' part means? could it be someone that wants to crush the Ministry and its democracy and force royalty/tyranny... then i vote for Tom Riddle. he's halfblood and he's not technically Voldemort.
but thats just me being anti-royalistic:-))

Tom Riddle is non-existant. He was a person in the past, and the only reason we met him is because he was preserved as a mempry in a diary. Now he's gone. And this is Harry Potter, not Everyone Have an Argument Over Politics and Royalty!

Just joking.

Craziness....Wooooo!

Erm...am I a loony, or a goofball??

Anyway....I still think the half-blood is Crookshanks.

Disorientation is my middle name. Woohoo.....yay, butterflies, spinny round wooo *fades into distance*

Sorry, I'm just in a really mad mood. I think it's being back with you guys after a week away.

hey hey hey peoples!! u guys hav made some very im[ortant pionts so far nad abou the prince thing who really kno's what jkr means it's very hard to read her ! lolzz but i stil kinda think that it will be a totally new charecter who has always been there but we have never noticed them because they haven;t been important till now. get what i am saying ?

Look call me crazy but i would have thought that the half blood prince would be Voldemort!!!! Obviously he's going to have a huge impact in how this story will unfold and his father afterall was a muggle!! remember that's why he changed his name from Tom Movarlo riddle to voldemort because his name was that of a muggle!!!! and it doesn't mean he has to be a prince literally!! it could be signified to mean almost anything! eg if salizar slytherin was labelled the king then voldemort would obviously be the prince! he did refer to slytherins work as "noble" afterall!!!

off subject here, but i think the scar on Dumbledore's knee that is a map of the London underground could be played into the story somewhere. maybe he uses it to get around the vaults at gringotts or something! dumbledore always said that scars come in handy!!
what are your thoughts?

Ashalind..

Well, JKR said it would not be Voldemort, but I too thought it would be him when I heard the title.

I think you are right about the scar on Dumbledore's knee. Great thinking.

Seamus??? no way! i still think its voldemort. the half blood prince could be signified, not meaning a prince literally. look at it this way, obviously voldemort and the death eaters would look up to slytherin as a kind of king, or god. The next best thing to slytherin is clearly voldemort who in this situation would in turn be refered to as a prince. We all know (although no-one seems to have acknowledged this) that voldemort is a half blood, his dad was a muggle - hence the name change from muggle Tom to voldemort - and his mum a witch. we don't know the full story of his childhood other than his father left his mum when he found out she was a witch, and voldemort later killed his dad and step family (start of goblet of fire this is established). the whole things a little like hitler - he dreamed of a aryan race so he tried to exterminate Jews, however he had the appearance of everything he hated, dark hair dark eyes. VERY TWISTED!!!
Draw all this info together and you have a plausable answer. right or wrong we wont know untill the books released, but that is my opinion.
what do you think????
Ashalind.

One of the interviews with JKR said that the Prince is not Voldemort. There is a clue that was given too about who it is. There is a thread here that gives the clue about the door opening. I think Zepplin started the thread. I do think that Voldemort is very Hilter like.

damn! not voldemort hey? well everything seems to point in his direction. now im stumped! well the possibilities are endless now. could be hagrid if his mother was a kind of queen or ruler of her group. I highly doubt Seamus could be. mmmmm. well i'd say at this point that it is someone we haven't been officially introduced to, we probably would have heard mention of him in earlier books but nothing too major. That whole godric griffindor thing and "only a true griffindor" being able to pull the sword out of the hat could be the key. maybe it means Harry afterall! maybe he's the heir of griffindor, because voldemort is the heir of slytherin, and slytherin and griffindor have always hated each other! maybe it is harry!!!
Ashalind

I still kind of get the feeling that it will be hagrid. However, I would love to see a new character introduced, it would just make the book so much more interesting in my opinion. then again i just like new characters. Hey was voldmort an only child? because if he had a sibling.. he would most likely be a half blood too right?

then again on second thought, i highly doubt voldmort had a brother. I was kind of considering firenze. Now that umbridge is gone and trelawney has her job back, well he can't go back to the forest, he could keep teaching. But also he can make predictions, voldmort might still be looking for a way to find out about the prophecy. Does anyone think it could be dumbledore? Do we know of dumbledores desent?

(I actually joined this forum just so that I could post in this thread, lol! )


Anyway, I have to agree with "Maja88"... Yes, JKR mentioned that it wasn't Voldemort, but technically Tom Riddle isn't Voldemort. And if Salazar Slytherin is considered a "king" of sorts, would't Tom Riddle be the prince since he is Slytherin's heir?

JKR also mentioned in an interview that we would see more of Voldemort's past, and what made him turn into what he presently is. So there you go.

Besides, I don't think CoS did Tom much justice...

JKR says on her website that it isn't Riddle either.

Welcome to the forum though!

Actually technically Tom Riddle is Voldemort. Nice signature.

Hmmm... Then why was "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" also a working title for CoS in the past? It must have something to do with Riddle.

Also, if I might add, Tom Riddle isn't Voldemort. Sure they are one in the same, but the true difference between the two is that Tom still has a soul, whereas Voldemort doesn't.

The first version of CoS had a completely different plot, and a character, the half-blood prince, who isn't present in the final version.
You're probably right about the soul thing, but I still consider tham to be the same person.

Thanks Oliphaunt. I got it here: http://www.octanecreative.com/media...r/oneliner.html

Yes you are right. I just peeked around on Ms. Rowling's website and I saw the tidbit about Tom not being the Half Blood Prince. *sigh* A part of me wishes he was, because I would like to know more about Voldemort's past.

Part of the reason why I love the books so much is because I'm really interested in Voldemort's character. It's safe to say that I am a Voldemort-supporter, lol! X3

i think it may be james or lily potter, because jk said that we would get to know more about them in next books ... just a thought

But shouldnt the prince be alive??because if hes not,then the title does not suit with the book...*sigh*these days most things i post are crap*sigh again*

ya i think the person would have to be alive but who realli knows with jk rowling she makes almost anything possible lolzz but i realli can't wait to learn more about lily and james!
and i like ur signature siriusblack

Hi, I was wondering if anyone on here goes on Mugglenet. I'm fairly new to these forums and there's some really solid info on mugglenet.com about all of this. For example, JKR posted an several sentences directly from HBP on her website describing exactly what the Half Blood Prince will look like.... You'll find that it will exterminate a lot of these theories, and create entirely new ones...

"...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."

^^From this we can gather that is probably new. The Gryffindor theory seems plausible, considering all of the catlike descriptions. The Gryffindor mascot is, after all, a lion. Another idea is that it could be Frank Longbottom, of whom we have yet to hear a description. Any ideas??

click here to see for yourself...

Thanks for that Penny lane, I'm pretty sure everyone here is aware of mugglenet

I'm not 100%, but I don't think JKR actually came out and said that sentence was a description of the half-blood prince... I think most people jumped to that conclusion. But it would be wonderful if we could work it all out from that

that quote came from jk rowlings site its self, it was behind the door

While it was on her site, and behind the door... she did NOT state that the sentence itself was the description OF the half-blood prince. It's just a "peek" into the upcoming book.

kewl

hey how did whoever found that get to that spot on the website? just curious because id like to do it myself

is behind a door, it changes everyso often, from the bit with all the links of (scrap book, news extra, there is a hair band, when u move mouse over it it will have a question mark (?) click and it will take you to the door, it sometimes ( most the time) has a "do not disturb" or sumin like that on the handle meaning u cant get in, but each time she changes the thing inside the way of getting the 'prize' in side the room.

ive tried clicking on the hairband but when I do i still get the same door that I got when she revealed the three chapters.