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The North Tower #33: On Blood and Princes

…I admit, I was persuaded that the HBP was none other than Tom Marvolo Riddle, and though I still think that my arguments are quite good, they were based on two main faulty assumptions: 1) that the HBP storyline was connected to CoS (i.e. that it remained inexplicitly in that book and hadn’t been removed altogether) and 2) that the duality of the character Tom/Voldemort was such (in JKR’s mind) that Tom and Voldemort could be considered separate characters of sorts (which would tally with Dobby’s use of “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” in CoS and the Changeling Hypothesis). Clearly I was wrong. It happens.

Today, I’ll look deeper into the mysteries of blood and princes, try to create some sort of base for future analysis, and maybe reach some new conclusions on who the prince might be.

The Magic Quill #26: The Freestyle Event, Part 2

“The most intense five minutes of my life, up to that day, began. The final of the Owlympic Freestyle Duel, between me and my most hated enemy, Sid Shmedly…”

Spanky continued his story, while a small audience of invisible, veiled, and masked witches and wizards listened in rapt silence–broken only by an occasional sneeze as a sizzle of firewhisky got up someone’s nose.

Crazy Caption Contest Main Image

CC #105: Week of October 24, 2004

In this week’s Caption Contest image, Harry receives the Marauders Map from Fred and George Weasley. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!

A Muggle’s Stab at ‘Divination’

by Rach There are some questions about the whole HP series that I’ve been wondering about and the identity of the Half-Blood Prince is not one of them. Nor is the correspondence between Dumbledore...