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JUNE 29, 2004 at 7:40 AM
Posted by GERI
Source: JKRowling.com via The Leaky Cauldron
It's official. The title of book 6 will be Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince according to author J.K. Rowling, who officially confirmed the name of book 6
under the News section of her Web site:
Well, the door opened at last and I showed you the title of book six - the genuine title, the title that will appear on the published book, the title I have been using in my head for ages and ages. Unfortunately, however, the door opened on the very same day the 'Pillar of Storgé' hoaxer struck, which left a lot of Harry Potter fans bemused as to whether I was having a joke at their expense by posting another fake title to 'teach hoaxers a lesson', something I certainly wouldn't do, as it would simply frustrate, confuse or annoy the 99.9% of you who aren't hoaxers! I tried to give a clear hint that the title behind the door was the real one by making the 'Toenail' joke as well (see 'Rumours'). But just to clear up matters once and for all…
Information you take directly from this site will be truthful and accurate (I might occasionally joke, but as time goes on, you'll learn to tell when I'm joking). Do not trust anybody else claiming to have found information on this site that you cannot access, however seemingly convincing the images they provide to support their story.
I never post information on the site that I do not want fans to read immediately. In other words, anybody claiming to have 'discovered' a message that wasn't due for release yet is lying. There was never anything meaningful behind the door until the 'Do Not Disturb' sign came off!
Read the rest of what she has to say, including who this "Half Blood Prince" might be (or definitely isn't).
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Points: 20
Kees says:
Although I am 99% sure that the half blood prince is either Hagrid or Albus D something someone said got me thinking.James Potter could well be the HBP.In book 6 we learn more about the late Potters and how they acquired their vast fortune.Perhaps James won some kind of competion???-You really should call me the informer
Posted Jul 4, 2004 at 5:55 PM EST
Points: 20
Kees says:
Think about this.In OOTP at the end when Dumbledore tells Harry everything....we already knew.Get it?.Anyway perhaps Voldemort DID put "his mark"on Neville as well as Harry and it just isnt as visable as Harry's.That would be the best Twist in the history of books.And she would go down further in history for having the courage to do it.
Posted Jul 4, 2004 at 6:03 PM EST
Points: 20
Kees says:
News just in.Lupins brother will take up the job of DATDA in book 6 if not him then perhaps quirrels brother.JK has said there will be more deaths in book 6.Any ideas who?.Harry will be 16 and will be given the nod for englands quidditch team.
Posted Jul 4, 2004 at 6:19 PM EST
Points: 20
Kees says:
In OOTP Harrys aunt seems to know a lot about the wizarding world.For instance she knows about the Dementors and Azkaban.But why?.Even though her sister was a witch Lilly would have no reason to explain what dementors were and what azkaban was.Unless she didnt and Petunia found out for her self.Yes,perhaps Petunia is a witch who couldnt cut it,think about it why would Lilly become a witch, and can you honestly tell me that petunaia had no intrest whatsoever.Anyway i am getting carried away with my self.Lets assume(never assume)that petunia is a witch and she marrys a muggle called oh i dont know lets say...Vernon and they give birth to a baby boy and name him Dudley.That would make him a half-blood correct?.Dudley being the half-blood prince really would be a turn out for the books(pardon the pun).However JKR did mention that someone with no extraordinory magical powers would be important latter on however she could have been refering to neville...oh well... back to the drawing board
Posted Jul 4, 2004 at 6:37 PM EST
Prefect
Points: 353
lovethekeeper says:
Well at least we know what the title is - now all we need is the book itself.
Posted Jul 4, 2004 at 8:02 PM EST
Points: 7
Littlechel says:
I think it's Hagrid. Remember half giant, half wizard...
Posted Jul 4, 2004 at 10:20 PM EST
Points: 152
Voldemort and Harry Fan says:
Kees...I was going to write earlier that Dudley was the HBP. Cool! We're thinking alike! Here's my reasoning:
Even if Petunia is a Muggle, one of her parents could have been a Squib which would make a magical son a half-blood, right? JKR said that someone will show signs of magical ability at a late age, so it could be Dudley. Petunia seems like a witch, but she could just be a second-generation-Squib (a term I just made up for a child of a Squib). This would explain the witch-like behavior. Dudley (if my conclusions are true) is a half-blood, and his parents treat him like...how is it worded?...it is something like a pampered little prince (someone look it up and inform me of JKR's exact wording...I have no clue where it is written), so in this sense he would be treated by his parents as the half-blood prince. I have another explanation of what prince could mean in reference to Dudley in my next paragraph (if you don't get too bored to read it).
Common theories say that it is Mark Evans. A few theories, including one of mine (see comments 301-325) say that is James Potter. And both Kees and I have pioneered the theorizing that the half-blood prince is Dudley. What do these have in common??? They are all related to Harry! This is about to get weird, so hold on.... Gryffindor was likely a half-blood; or at least it would not be a surprize at all if JKR revealed this. Harry, being a "true Gryffindor" could be interpreted as meaning a decendant of Godric Gryffindor. So, as the heir of Slytherin comes to open the Chamber of Secrets and become what could be called the Pure-blood King, the heir of Gryffindor could be called the Half-Blood King. (I told you this part is weird.) A prince is the heir to a king, and that heir doesn't have to be a son or daughter. It could be a cousin, which is Mark or Dudley. If this is all true, but Dudley will truly always be a Muggle, and Mark is a wizard, Mark is the prince. If Dudley is magical, Dudley, the older one, would be heir to Harry's "throne." This would make Dudley the Half-Blood Prince.
P.S. Kees, JKR confirmed on the "Rumours" page of her site that Remus Lupin does not have a brother.
Post-P.S. I wonder when we will get a clue as to who the DADA teacher is.
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 12:44 AM EST
Points: 152
Voldemort and Harry Fan says:
I'm sorry I am wasting space and your time, but I made a mistake in my P.S. It is not in the "Rumours" section, it's in the "F.A.Q." section. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 12:56 AM EST
Muggle
Points: 80
HarryPotterLover14 says:
Ohh my gosh! im reallt late i know but wow..jk rowing let out the title...
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 1:46 AM EST
The Chosen Hobbit
Points: 2447
Enisnitch Baggins says:
So much posting here ... I dont believe (and I dont want to believe) that half blood prince means voldie. It have to be Harry!
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 4:33 AM EST
Witch
Points: 502
maggie_and_mags says:
The title resembles PoA a little. But who can the half blood prince be? I wish it was Draco ... ahh.. but he can be a prince, he's not half blooded. So who is half blooded? We know Seamus is, but I can't really think of anyone else. And I don't think Seamus will ever be a prince.
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 8:42 AM EST
Muggle
Points: 68
AlexaDoReMi says:
Well, since J.K. said it's not Harry or Voldemort,I think the half blood prince is probably Lupin or Mark Evans. Lupin is a half blood, so he's a likely choice. But in Harry Potter, there are no coincidences, so seeing as Mark Evans has the same last name as Lily did before she married James, it's probably Mark Evans. If one of Mark's parents was a Squib, they wouldn't be registered in the Ministry's records of witches and wizards, but they'd still have magical blood.(Proven by the Squibs who took Quikspell and were able to do magic) (Because if they hadn't had magical blood, they would be Muggles and not able to do magic at all, even without special courses.)
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 9:51 AM EST
Muggle
Points: 68
AlexaDoReMi says:
Ooops! I meant WITH special courses!
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 10:20 AM EST
Witch
Points: 988
Yami-Tenshi says:
This is awsome, But I don't think that the Half Blood Prince is Harry. I mean just look at the title. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. If it was Harry then the and would be cut off. Any way, if we got the title that means the book can't be to for off. JK is very particular about giving away the name of her books.
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 10:53 AM EST
Points: 152
Voldemort and Harry Fan says:
Just to clarify, J.K. Rowling stated directly that neither Harry nor Voldemort is the Half-Blood Prince. She also stated that Lupin has no brother, so don't suggest Romulus Lupin, Harry Potter, or Voldemort. Tom Riddle would be an option, but I personally think that she was ruling out Tom Riddle when she said it isn't Voldemort. After all, you can't really lose "Prince" status, especially if the word "Prince" is figurative.
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 12:40 PM EST
Points: 92
HpObsessed4 says:
Listen everyone here are my theories as follows :
Very interesting title, and I am very glad to see that we now have an official title for Book 6! HBP - we have an abbreviation for it too! This is probably going to be another one of those titles that we pour over and over and never really find out what it is until we read the books. If JKR follows suit like in the past, this definitely will have to do with the main plot of the book. Who this is can be many different people. Usually her titles are very literal, but can the same be said for this one? For my two cents, Hagrid is the Half-Blood Prince. He's half-Giant, maybe even a Prince among the Giants, and the Giants are supposedly very influential in the upcoming War of the Wizards... Ok, first JK said it's not Harry or Voldemort, so they're right out, and it can't be Neville or even Snape because they are both pure bloods. (althout when my son suggested Snape I thought it would have been a good twist).
That leaves Seamus (uh...no...don't think so!)To me Seamus is just NOT the princeley sort in any way shape or form...which means it will probably turn out to be him, but for now I can't even contemplate that.
Then there is ...
Dean- He is a much more likely choice since in his bio on JK's site she says that his biological dad had run off and unbelnownst to his wife and son was a wizard-(and apparently a pureblood since he was killed by death eaters when he refused to join them)
Then we have...
Hagrid. I know, I know...HAGRID you say? But he IS a half blood (granted it's half Wizard/Half Giant but still)and we don't know too much about him. It has always struck me as interesting that Dumbledore kept him on after he was expelled. That could not have gone over well with anyone (when he was suspected of setting a giant monster loose on the students) so there had to be more to it than mere benevolence on Dumbldore's part. Maybe he kept Hagrid close for the same reason he kept Trelawney close...maybe Hagrid too has some greater part to play in all of this?
The only other person who I wondered about is Dumbledore himself. I mean has it ever been stated definitively that he is a pureblood? I don't remember. It would be interesting if it turned out to be him, seeing as how his and Harry's relationship is a bit shaky at the moment and he IS the only wizard that Voldemort ever feared (as they are always saying...) We know for sure that Dean, Seamus, and Justin are half-bloods. I like the idea of it being Dean because we know from JKR's site that there is a whole history for Dean that she has wanted to put in the books. We aren't told the parentage of most of the other characters but we know from Hagrid that most wizarding families had a muggle relative at some point. So we can't count out character like Micheal Corner.
I also like the idea of it being Vicktor Krum just because I don't think we've seen the last of him.
Finally, are we sure that 'Prince' means actually having royal blood? For JKR to literally mean prince the HBP's father would have to be a king. SEAMUS FINNEGAN IS THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE...WHY?
Four reasons:
a) "me dads a muggle...me mum's a witch...bit of a nasty shock when he found out!" (line
from chamber in book and movie)
b) This scene wasn't deleted from the movie. Therefore jkrowling could have told the
screen writer not to delete it because it was information needed in book 6.
c) The title for book 6 was going to be the title for chamber of secrets. That means a
character from book 2 is "the half blood prince"
d) Seamus is half blood (of coarse)
Is Tonks an only child? maybe she has a brother or she has a son with another half blood. i remember Sirius saying in OotP that his parents thought to be a Black made you like royalty.
I read on here that Snape is a pure blood. I was just wondering where we learn that because apart from the fact that he is head of Slytherin house, i can't remember any of the books saying he is pure blood. I may be wrong, though. I just thought mayber that's why his parents argued so much.
Lupin (we don't know his background, only that he was bitten by a werewolf very young. i would assume (never assume) from this he was pure blood. Umbridge refers to Lupin as a "half-breed" but wasn't he a full werewolf?[i don't know where i'm going with that.])
and all others wondering who Mark Evans is): Mark Evans is the kid that Dudley beat up!!! Therefore, he must live near the Dursleys! But in book 5 it clearly states that there are no other wizards living near Harry. But the last name Evans also comes Lily Evans (later Lily Potter). She was muggle born- so maybee Mark Evans is some - cousin or something of hers. But he may be muggle-born. But so far we can't know, because as of book 5 he is only 10 (Harry made fun of Dudley for beating up the 10-year old Mark Evans). That means that in book 6 he is 11. Time for Hogwarts letters to start arriving. So if Mark Evans is a muggle-born, He will be in book 6 at Hogwarts. And if he's not in Book 6, well than oh well!!! Hope that helps Siriushp.
As for the Half Blood Prince (Thanks for making if official JKR!!!) That is really cool. But it could be Dumbledore (if he's a 1/2 blood) or maybee, even Seamus. Because in Book 1 (and movie 1) He states that His dad's a muggle, and his moms a witch. But, i don't think thats it. Keep guessing everybody!
Also, The 1/2 blood Prince could be:
1. Seamus (He said in the 1st book His moms a witch and his dads a muggle)
2. Dumbledore (if he's a 1/2 blood)
3. Lupin (we never learned of his background)
4. Somebody of Tonk's family (she's 1/2 blood, stated in book 5)
5. Some other character we don't know yet
6. Hagrid (dads a wizard, mothers a giant)
7.Dean Thomas (definetly)
So does this mean one of them are going to die (not to be p
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 6:22 PM EST
Witch
Points: 608
LecHaRry says:
Voldemort and Harry Fan where do you get these stuffs (your comments)?, i think its really nice, it got me thinking and more curious about who the HBP would be... but i don't get the thing about mark evans, i mean, his lastname is the same as Lily's, but if mark is somewhat related to her, wouldn't Petunia know something about him, and i think she'd advice Dudley to stay away from him.... i don't know... someone clear this for me please...
and Kees i like your comments too... i agree with you when you said that 'Sirius is not dead'... i mean, there's just not much to the OotP that says Sirius is really dead, i mean JKR didn't mention what spell Bellatrix used on him right? JKR could have written that she used the aveda kadavra curse on Sirius... and one more thing that proves this is that scene with Luna Lovegood saying to harry: "Oh, come on. You heard them just behind the veil, didn't you?" "In that room with the archway. They were just lurking out of sight, that's all. You heard them." Someone correct me if i'm wrong...
i do hope Sirius is not really dead... his the only thing close to a father that Harry got... i really cried you know, when i read that part...
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 8:36 PM EST
Witch
Points: 733
PotterHoney says:
Yeah! I think this title is better than the hoax. Who's gonna convince their kid to read a book with the word 'Storge' in the title? Anyway,I wonder who the Half Blood Prince is? Could it be Harry? But then would she be that repetative in the title?
Posted Jul 5, 2004 at 10:02 PM EST
Order of Merlin, 1st Class
Points: 1899
Hermione5 says:
WOW!! I was away for two weeks, and what happens?!
Unbelievable!!!
Well, I also thought of Seamus, when I first read the title, but if he were the half blood prince, wouldn't it be too SIMPLE-you know what I mean--Don't forget that the one who creates the books (and so the titles as well) is J.K. Rowling!!
So nothing ever turns out the way we expected...
Posted Jul 6, 2004 at 9:57 AM EST
Order of Merlin, 1st Class
Points: 1899
Hermione5 says:
Anyway, the title sounds sort of weird and childish in my language.Any hungarians here? Szerintetek is?
Posted Jul 6, 2004 at 10:00 AM EST
Points: 152
Voldemort and Harry Fan says:
HpObsessed4, will you be my best friend??? I love it when people write large paragraphs!!! :-)
Posted Jul 6, 2004 at 5:13 PM EST
Points: 152
Voldemort and Harry Fan says:
The subject of the archway was brought up, so I can't resist. I feel obliged to share my opinion. Brace yourself, here I go:
Dumbledore in the Order of the Phoenix ("The Only One He Ever Feared" is the chapter I think...it just might be "The Lost Prophecy") called the amphitheater room with the stone dais and arch "The Death Room." This name just screams that it involves death. Sir Nicholas De Mimsy-Porpington (A.K.A. Nearly Headless Nick) says in "The Second War Begins" that learned wizards in the Department of Mysteries study death; and Harry, in great distress, doesn't think much of it: he just tells Nick not to talk to him about that place. Harry, of course, had asked Nick about ghosts, a subject which brought up the Department of Mysteries. From these facts my theory (which luckily isn't as confusing as the Dudley one) unfolds.
According to Nick, if you are a wizard or witch, you can choose to become a ghost when you die. Most people, however do not choose this path. JKR has not told us much about a magical person's death. In fact, the only thing she has directly told us has been via Nearly Headless Nick. I don't think the death of Muggles has any significance at all to the story, so they probably just go away all together. Wizards, however, have a choice: become a ghost or, if my theory is correct, go through the archway. The voices are the voices of the dead people. Since Harry and Luna are the only ones to hear the voices behind the veil, I assume one of these two options is true: you can only hear the whispers of people you have seen the death of or it is something like the seeing of thestrals (you can hear all voices behind the veil if you have witnessed death). By the way, we will know for sure that Sirius is dead and has no chance of coming back if Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville can see thestrals in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Anyway, whichever case is true, simply traveling through the veil would instantaneously kill you. This is why Hermione stopped Harry from going through it (you have to love Hermione's intuition). One stunning spell usually can't kill someone, but a stunning spell pushing a person through the veil can. I infer, LecHaRry, that it was "STUPEFY" Bellatrix said, because only two spells I can think of are red, stunning and expelliarmus. It very well could have been the latter, but I immediately interpreted it as stunning, so I will continue to say it is unless it is proven an erroneous conclusion. This is precisely why Sirius died. He was pushed through the veil.
I hope this helps you understand the mystery of "The Death Room" according to my conclusions.
Hey, if you want to talk to me personally, email me at PaulFilippelli622@hotmail.com. Please don't send me any SPAM or anything. I trust you guys, so don't let me down.
Posted Jul 6, 2004 at 6:11 PM EST
Points: 152
Voldemort and Harry Fan says:
Just to make sure everyone knows, JKR confirmed that Mark Evans was and insignificant character who coincidentally had Lily's last name. Therefore, you should not theorize that Mark Evans is the Half Blood Prince. He is out of the question.
Posted Jul 6, 2004 at 7:29 PM EST
Wizard
Points: 603
Padfoot7 says:
I think it is 100% Mark Evans. What? Jk said what...? Oh god. Now I have to start all over again! Okay... I think the Half Blood Prince is... and Ive got nothing.
Posted Jul 6, 2004 at 7:54 PM EST
Slytherin Sugar Daddy
(Moderator)
Points: 5054
Andy Lestrange says:
Yes! I cant wait for the book to come out! Thanks for telling us the true name JKR! Well now Ill have to sign up for the release date announcement thingie.
Posted Jul 6, 2004 at 9:40 PM EST
Transfiguration Professor
Points: 2990
Choralee says:
"and the Half Blood Prince"? Wow. That is a change! It has always been a menacing sounding title - something that inspires thoughts of dark deeds or fantastuc undertakings. I am a bit surprised by this one. I wonder who it is. And the title of "Prince". Interesting...
Posted Jul 6, 2004 at 10:19 PM EST
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