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Who did you think the half-blood prince was before HBP?spoil
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Mariana
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PostPosted: February 12, 2008 8:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

aham 1st James Potter was pure-blooded
and Hagrid is well..half giant.I thought that """prince""" was tom riddle before he became Lord Voldemort.That saktumsempra spell is terrible.It looked like Riddle's work.
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PostPosted: February 12, 2008 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lol.. thought it was Harry.
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PostPosted: February 12, 2008 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had no idea. I think I had a slight thought about Snape. But I just wasn`t thinking about it much, I was just reading Smile
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PostPosted: February 12, 2008 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I had no idea. I think I had a slight thought about Snape


yeah, me too, i considered him as a posibility, but i wasnt sure
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PostPosted: February 12, 2008 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Although, when I first read the title on the book I thought it might be Harry himself.

But that was a little obvious.
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PostPosted: February 13, 2008 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

At first, like many peope, I believed it was Harry since he's the main character lol. But then I began to think it might be the BAD GUY seeing as the titles of the books never relate to HARRY himself. So Voldermort was a likely choice and then about half way through the book I started to think there was a possibility that Hagrid was the half blood prince. Dont even know why...Jus thought that if there was gonna be a HALF BLOOD PRINCE then it must be someone toally UNEXPECTED so Hagrid was totally unexpected lol. But turned out that it was even MORE unexpected! Turned out to be he only guy I DIDN'T suspect Wink
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PostPosted: February 13, 2008 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

After I read 180 pages I was like, its Slughorn, he must be a follower, but I was wrong...
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PostPosted: February 13, 2008 1:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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After I read 180 pages I was like, its Slughorn, he must be a follower, but I was wrong...


nah i never considered slughorn, he didnt seem the type
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PostPosted: February 14, 2008 10:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Voldemort never entrusted the locket to either of them. Umbridge wasn'ta Death Eater. She was more of a Death Eater sympathizer than anything. WHich isn't any better, in fact, it's probably worse. But either way, Voldemort didn't give it to either of them to hold, and actually, Umbridge stumbled upon it.

I do think that Voldemort would have been better off not entrusting his Horcruxes to anyone, because he was sadly mistaken as to who he could trust.


By and large, Voldemort did not entrust his horcruxes to his followers.

He entrusted the diary to some one else because he wanted it to get back to Hogwarts. He didn't really think it would matter so much to put one of his horcruxes in danger of being discovered, because he felt that having so many others was fool-proof. I also kind of think that he wanted his first horcrux to be discovered. Voldemort liked to be admired and feared. If he could pull off such poweful magic at such a young age, and his memory self was proof that he was extremely young, then that was sure to put more awe and fear into the people who realized this.

I could be wrong, but I don't recall the books mentioning how the DE's even came to possess the cup. For all we know, Voldemort may have had it in a dwelling with plans to hid it somewhere when he fell. If the DE's went there in desperation to grab whatever they could, then Malfoy may have very well just grabbed it along with other things. He surely knew of its value.

Slytherin's locket was well-hidden and no DEs were left to protect that. The Inferi were used to protect the locket.

The ring was at the House of Gaunt, rather than in the protection of a DE.

The diadem was in the Room of Requirements.

Of course, we all know that Nagini rarely left Voldemort's site, unless he had her doing something that he himself could not do.
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PostPosted: February 14, 2008 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

zengrenouille wrote:
GinnyX wrote:
Voldemort never entrusted the locket to either of them. Umbridge wasn'ta Death Eater. She was more of a Death Eater sympathizer than anything. WHich isn't any better, in fact, it's probably worse. But either way, Voldemort didn't give it to either of them to hold, and actually, Umbridge stumbled upon it.

I do think that Voldemort would have been better off not entrusting his Horcruxes to anyone, because he was sadly mistaken as to who he could trust.


By and large, Voldemort did not entrust his horcruxes to his followers.

He entrusted the diary to some one else because he wanted it to get back to Hogwarts. He didn't really think it would matter so much to put one of his horcruxes in danger of being discovered, because he felt that having so many others was fool-proof. I also kind of think that he wanted his first horcrux to be discovered. Voldemort liked to be admired and feared. If he could pull off such poweful magic at such a young age, and his memory self was proof that he was extremely young, then that was sure to put more awe and fear into the people who realized this.

I could be wrong, but I don't recall the books mentioning how the DE's even came to possess the cup. For all we know, Voldemort may have had it in a dwelling with plans to hid it somewhere when he fell. If the DE's went there in desperation to grab whatever they could, then Malfoy may have very well just grabbed it along with other things. He surely knew of its value.



You're right, it does seem a little fishy he would just hand over the doary Horcruz unprtoected. He most likely wanted to be found out somehow, even unconciously.
And although we don't know how the LeStranges originally came by the cups, we do know that he knew the cup was in there, and opted to leave it there. It could just be that he trusted the security measures of old vaults, which would actually make more sense. Voldemort would seem to be the type to trust magical means of security, rather than trusting actual people.
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PostPosted: February 15, 2008 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

But he always trusted my sweet Bellatrix.
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PostPosted: February 15, 2008 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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But he always trusted my sweet Bellatrix.


No, he didn't. Read the beginning of HBP again.
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PostPosted: February 15, 2008 11:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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voldy didnt trust anyone, jo said so
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PostPosted: February 15, 2008 11:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GinnyX wrote:
You're right, it does seem a little fishy he would just hand over the doary Horcruz unprtoected.


I think JKR has said that he had a plan for the diary and wanted Lucius to implement the plan but then he got vaporized and eventually (without Voldy's consent) decided to use the diary for his own personal gain. She may have also said that Lucius didnt really know the diary's power. I don't mean that it was a horcrux, but pretty much what we and Ginny discovered it was, before we knew what horcruxes were.

Edit: (answering the topic) I thought Voldemort was that HBP and I didn't even give it another thought. I think I misunderstood someone and thought that the identity of the HBP had been spoiled and revealed to me as Voldy, before I ever read the book. If I had thought about it, I might have figured it a little ridiculous to have Tom Riddles diary and then his potions book; and so I might have considered others but probably someone like DD. At least until the use of sectumsempra. Then I would have been turned off of it maybe being DD.
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PostPosted: February 15, 2008 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i thought it was snape to tell you the truth, one of the spells that were scribbled in the book he told draco to use in CoS. so i was like its snape snapepdy snape!
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PostPosted: February 16, 2008 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Auror Monroe wrote:
GinnyX wrote:
You're right, it does seem a little fishy he would just hand over the doary Horcruz unprtoected.


I think JKR has said that he had a plan for the diary and wanted Lucius to implement the plan but then he got vaporized and eventually (without Voldy's consent) decided to use the diary for his own personal gain. She may have also said that Lucius didnt really know the diary's power. I don't mean that it was a horcrux, but pretty much what we and Ginny discovered it was, before we knew what horcruxes were.



lol, just to clarify my awesome spelling, I was trying to say "*diary Horcrux unprotected"

Anyway, I know that Voldemort had bigger plans for the diary and that Lucius didn't know what it really was.. but I just meant that after all these years of having that diary, you would think Voldemort would already have it protected very well. I can only assume that it was protected, but he wanted to make it even more protected. So he had the Lestranges put the cup in their vault and was going to do something similar with the Malfoys... since they were two of his most trusted followers... well, as much as he could trust anyone, since he didn't really trust anyone.
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PostPosted: February 17, 2008 10:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought it was either Snape, Riddle or original character. Mostly Snape though, cause it was potions book after all and I thought it would have been funny if Harry got very good results in potions - thanks to the man, that wanted him out of potions xD
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PostPosted: February 17, 2008 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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But he always trusted my sweet Bellatrix.

Lord Voldemort doesn't "trust" anyone. He is simply pure evil and I read it on beggining of DH book.

My 2nd thought was Snape,but in the beggining I really thought it's Tom Riddle because those horrible spell seemed like his work.Seems I wasn't right.Snape was the Prince all along.
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PostPosted: February 24, 2008 9:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had an idea of who it might be. but i wasnt for sure. I had thought it was snape about the middle before we found out it was snape. but at the beginning i thought it might be Voldie, but then i realized it was after his time at Hogwarts.
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PostPosted: February 28, 2008 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well i was at my neices house when i was reading it and she had just finished it (we were reading before we went to bed, she reading DH and me HBP) i was convinced it was Dumbledore and then Voldie and then slughorn.... i never thouhgt of snape never really thought about it. he just didnt click. when we were reading i was guessing and she was sitting there laughing at me but refused to tell me who it was Very Happy
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PostPosted: February 28, 2008 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought it would be a completely new character (like the Order of the Phoenix was a new group, Goblet of Fire a new object, Prisoner of Azkaban a new character, Chamber of Secrets a new place, Sorceror's Stone a new object, obviously).
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PostPosted: February 28, 2008 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i thought it was voldemort till harry found the book and then i knew it was snape. it was obv
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PostPosted: February 28, 2008 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

or your just smart Cool

slytherins are smart...!
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