Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

[Xollob]

So what does everybody think of the latest installment?

[RoseB]

I do not believe that Snape will die because of the Unbreakable Vow because he has already done what it required of him (doing it if Malfoy does not, and such).

As for who R.A.B is, I think it could very well be a new character(Though the Sirius' Brother idea does sound good too), and I think they wrote they are probably "dead before you read this" in the locket because they were in fact the only one there to empty out the potion and get the locket. Dumbledore never said that you needed two people, just it proved to be helpful to get Dumbledore to finish the potion, perhapes this other person was just extremally driven.

[RoseB]

Sent that without finishing, my apoligies. If it were not that R.A.B. was extremally driven, it could have been that the discovered away around drinking the potion, which could possible be it when in their letter they say "I discovered your secret"

[RoseB]

And I'm sorry for all those spelling errors aswell, I typed those quite fast.

[iluvron]

Ok, i just wanna say that harry is definitely NOT a horcrux! because if he was a horcrux then why would voldemort always be trying to kill him?!? that would be like killing an own part of his soul and im sure he wouldn't do that.

[boyalive]

Spoilers included

personally i think the whole snape thing is too deep. Snape might've been good but probably screwed up by taking the unbreakable vow. When it came time he wanted to keep himself alive instead of dumbledore- i mean you don't just kill dumbledore and remain good. Also dumbie wouldn't have himself killed- he knew that he was the only one voldie ever feared. I also disagree with the thing about Regulus- you have to be really powerful to get through all of those traps voldie left. 

[bobalobabob]

this is how I see the note inside the locket,
"to the dark lord" meening the person is a death eater
"i know i will b...." he feels that this act has fataly weakened him.
"....secret" he discovered that the dark lord survived using horcruxes
"...real horcrux..." what harry came to get
"face death" as above, knowing he will die
"R.A.B." this is a tricky one, i'd put money on sirius' bro, he fits the discription...but not perfectly sure, the idea of R and B is good also but doesnt fit the note.

[bobalobabob]

hey what if a wand could penetrate the potion....hehe did i miss the explanation of what the potion was???

[bobalobabob]

what if it is the real horcrux?? and voldemort wrote the note to fool the capturer of it.....

[alex1238]

I think that if Harry is a Horcux (I forgot how to spell it), doesn't that mean that Harry will have to destroy himself! I think that Harry should kill one of the Death Eaters that way, he could split his soul and when Voldemort tries to kill him (and he tries to destroy himeslf), he won't be able too die completely. Then once Harry kills Voldemort he could kill his Horcrux so he could die naturally.

[Greyback]

Heyhey I'ts not a theory but picture this.

Since Voldemort can make Inferi ( or however they're spelt) what would happen if he brought, say, James and Lily's bodies back from the dead once Harry goes to Godric's Hollow to visit their graves?

[RoseB]

Another reason I think Regulas could have taken the true horcrux is because he had the dark mark and perhapes there was a barrier put over the potion that was similar to one put ont he opening going up the staircase during the fight. You can only get through if you have a dark mark, in the same way you can only reach through the potion if you have a dark mark. That way he wouldn't have had to be a super strong wizard to handle the potion like Dumbledore was.

[WLGuru]

I suspect Dumbledore will return in book 7 for a few reasons:  1. He froze Harry at the start of the fight, as if he knew Harry would interfere with something he and Snape had planned.  2. He tells Malfoy that the Order can make it look like he was killed (and his mother) to hide him from Voldemort.  Sounds like a subtle hint of what he is doing).  3. Dumbledore tells Malfoy that Snape didn't make the "Unbreakable vow" to his mother, but to him.  Hmmm. Could Dumbledore have been using the polyjuice potion?  If so, it would have been quite an elaborate plot with Snape.  4. Harry's reason why he thinks AD trusts Snape is weak - because he confessed hearing the prophecy and telling Voldemort?!.  5. AD was insistent on being taken to Snape, not the medicine lady.  6. It would be a close to perfect ending to book 7 if Harry does most of the work on his own, but AD pops out at the end and reveals he could only have done his part if Vold. thought he was dead.   Voila.

[purple_spots]

u r full of cr%p.

Snape is bad and always will be.

Harry is not a horacrux.

dumbledore is not dead! he will help harry as a ghost, or will come back 2 life...somehow.

P.S. Hermione and Ron will go out and Harry and Ginny will get back together and then they will double-date and get married at the same time and have children with red hair, and they will be each other's son's and daughter's godparents and harry will be an Auoror or howeva u spell it.

AND....................... Harry will find all the Death eaters and kill them an malfoy (hehehehe) and he'll get all the hoorcuxes and destroy them all and voldermort will die and harry will become immortal

And........ he will take over as headmaster of hogwarts

And....................hermionies and rons kids and his and ginnys kids will all b in gryffindor

AND.......................................Snape will die

 

AND................almost done Hagrid will marry that giant lady from book four and have little Hagrids. 

[WLGuru]

Continuing from above: 7. AD's statement early in the book that his rare mistakes could be colossal ones, seems too much like a setup to make us believe he could have really been wrong about Snape.  8. AD has always had a genius for foresight, intuition, and advanced planning.  Especially when it is against what everyone else (and the Ministry) thinks is true.  I just don't believe he would be wrong about Snape.  9. None of the Death Eaters would kill AD because Vold. wanted Malfoy to do it.  So why then did Snape apparently kill AD?  Well, that's why I don't think he did.  There are always ways with magic to make things look like they aren't.  10.  After the scene at the bottom of the tower, you don't see AD's body.  Not at the funeral - just a wrapped up bundle that Hagrid carried in.

So there they are.  10 reasons.

[WLGuru]

Oh, one last thing:

As for RAB.... I'm not sure I even care.  I think it is a decoy to draw the attention and speculation away from Dumbledore's death.  It's possible that it is a fake message, and the item is still the horcrux; or it may be that RAB destroyed several of them and Harry follows his trail.  Either way, it gives something for the plot in book 7 to build on.

[slapped33]

hey wif the harry is a horcux thing, it couldnt work. if he was, then hed have to destroy himself to be able to kill voldemort, and then he wudnt be able to would he.

[jaromir]

Best part of the book is when Ginny runs at Harry and he kisses her, he completely abuses the situation he is in with her and should have made the most of it, no relationship can ever go smoothly, just wish opportunities like this would arise in real life.

Looking forward to next book.

[sklig88]

I can see what everyone's saying about Snape dying as a hero, that's what I kind of think too.

But, to me, the part where Dumbledore said something like "I too make mistakes, Harry, and since I'm cleverer than most, when I make mistakes they are very big mistakes." was kind of a tip off that maybe he WAS wrong about Snape. I'd love to think that all along Dumbledore was right, but maybe this is just showing that this WAS his big mistake.

What does everyone think?

I think it could easily go either way, I'm just not sure at this point.

[sklig88]

WL Guru-

doesnt it seem like that isnt something Rowling would do- to bring back Dumbledore? It seems to me that she would leave him dead and show that Harry can get on without him.

Do you guys really think Harry won't go back to Hogwarts? It says on the spine of every book "4th year at Hogwarts" "3rd year at hogwarts" etc. Would she actually do that?

Plus that would mean no Hagrid since he said Hogwaarts was his only home and he'd still teach there.

who knows.

[sklig88]

i forgot to say-

to me, it just seems corny and juvenille that rowling would bring back a character that had died by an unforgiveable curse- and she's been working hard to prove that she's anything but corny and juvenille.