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snitch_seeker2007
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PostPosted: August 11, 2007 7:41 pm    Post subject: Snape couldn't have been the HBP! Right? Reply with quote

ok i am confused, in HBP it said that harry looked in the front of the advanced potion making cover and it said that the creator wrote it over fifty years ago and none of Harry's parents or their friends were at Hogwarts then. In the chamber of secrets Ron and Harry used the polyjuice potion and went in the Slytherin common room with Malfoy. Ron and harry were trying to find out if Malfoy was the Heir of Syltherin. Malfoy told them he knew nothing about it only that it was opened fifty years ago.if tom riddle opened it fifty years ago wouldn't it make sense that Voldemort was the half blood prince? it couldn't be Snape right?
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PostPosted: August 11, 2007 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You forget his mother owned the book -_-!
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PostPosted: August 11, 2007 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Snape wasn't the first owner of the book. He most likely bought it first hand or it was his mother's old book.


Hence the reason why it was so tattered and the "girly" handwriting.
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PostPosted: August 12, 2007 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh i see sorry my friend was confused about that part and she wrote it on my account haha Smile
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PostPosted: August 13, 2007 5:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh. Ok.

Hmm.... that would've been interesting if Voldy was the HBP. But I never got the HBP subplot, anyhow. Eh, probably because I never looked deep enough into it.
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PostPosted: August 13, 2007 9:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i thought voldemort was the HBP the whole time i was like are idiots cmon.
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PostPosted: August 13, 2007 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think we were meant to, with the book being 50 years old. But it was a red herring. Though when you find out who it really was its like "why didn't I think of that?" I mean..potions...but then again the book was 50 years old and you don't really think to yourself 'well it could have been his mothers' Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: August 13, 2007 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Arabella wrote:
I think we were meant to, with the book being 50 years old. But it was a red herring. Though when you find out who it really was its like "why didn't I think of that?" I mean..potions...but then again the book was 50 years old and you don't really think to yourself 'well it could have been his mothers' Rolling Eyes


yuppp... In hindsight is seems so obvious. But she planted so many red herrings and false clues and hidden secrets that you were never led to think for a second that it could possibly be Snape.
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PostPosted: August 16, 2007 2:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GinnyX wrote:
Arabella wrote:
I think we were meant to, with the book being 50 years old. But it was a red herring. Though when you find out who it really was its like "why didn't I think of that?" I mean..potions...but then again the book was 50 years old and you don't really think to yourself 'well it could have been his mothers' Rolling Eyes


yuppp... In hindsight is seems so obvious. But she planted so many red herrings and false clues and hidden secrets that you were never led to think for a second that it could possibly be Snape.


exactly... which is why i enjoy JKR's writing so much
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PostPosted: August 17, 2007 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

omg its still hurts to think about
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PostPosted: August 22, 2007 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah at first i thought it was voldys book

and then when you find out its snapes, i kinda tought el theres not reallymuch point of it all then, if you get what i mean, it didnt reallyhave any affect on the story
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PostPosted: August 28, 2007 4:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The HBP is Snape.
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PostPosted: August 28, 2007 5:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love how he gets hella mad at Harry trying to use his spell on him, it really shows Snape's hatred for James 'cause he once turned Snape's spell on him too.
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PostPosted: August 28, 2007 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought the spells that where in the potions book were definately
Snape's because when Harry uses one of the spells against Snape at the
end of the book Snape clearly says that it is his own spell.

However, more than one person could have owned the book, so it doesn't mean that
Snape is the Half Blood Prince.

Besides, he's pure blood isn't he?

Maybe Hermione is right and it was a female. Maybe Lily.
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PostPosted: August 29, 2007 5:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nargle wrote:
I thought the spells that where in the potions book were definately
Snape's because when Harry uses one of the spells against Snape at the
end of the book Snape clearly says that it is his own spell.

However, more than one person could have owned the book, so it doesn't mean that
Snape is the Half Blood Prince.

Besides, he's pure blood isn't he?

Maybe Hermione is right and it was a female. Maybe Lily.

No, Snape is half blood.
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PostPosted: August 29, 2007 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nargle wrote:
I thought the spells that where in the potions book were definately
Snape's because when Harry uses one of the spells against Snape at the
end of the book Snape clearly says that it is his own spell.

However, more than one person could have owned the book, so it doesn't mean that
Snape is the Half Blood Prince.

Besides, he's pure blood isn't he?

Maybe Hermione is right and it was a female. Maybe Lily.


Did you even read the book? Pg 563 HBP Snape says:

'You dare use my own spells against me Potter? It was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince! And you'd turn my inventions on me, like your filthy father, would you? ..'
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PostPosted: December 25, 2007 1:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

He is! Severus Snape is the Half-Blood Prince, and JKR said herself before the book's release it wasn't Harry or Voldemort.
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PostPosted: December 25, 2007 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spoiler:

It is obvious from book 7 that his family didnt have much money so the book must have been from his mother


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PostPosted: December 25, 2007 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The book was his Mom's that is why there is girly handwriting in the book. Not all of the directions/spells were Snapes. The book was given to Snape by his own Mom and he followed the potions directions as Harry did. He created a few spells and maybe perfected a few potions and put his own hand to the book as his mother did. He gave himself the name HBP in honor of his mother's maiden name. He hated his muggle father.
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PostPosted: December 25, 2007 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

His mother originally owned the book fifty years ago during the period when the Chamber of Secrets was opened. By the time she had Snape, he began to use her potion book and make up spells and dub himself the half-blood prince. The name is a given from his dad being half-blood, and his mother's last name was Prince...
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PostPosted: December 27, 2007 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Soliloquy wrote:
Oh. Ok.

Hmm.... that would've been interesting if Voldy was the HBP. But I never got the HBP subplot, anyhow. Eh, probably because I never looked deep enough into it.


yeah. it actually makes more sense to me if it was voldie... hbp tells us of voldie's story... not snape's... and voldie is a halffie... and he's practically a prince, being the heir of slythie...
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PostPosted: December 28, 2007 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The book was a big twist for me because I thought Voldemort was the HBP. I never even considered someone else.
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PostPosted: December 28, 2007 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

moi aussi
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PostPosted: December 28, 2007 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually snape dad is not half blood he is a muggle
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