Death in Half-Blood Prince
by Esther Kleinig I’ve been quite disappointed recently – I’ve yet to find a rational analysis of who might die in HBP. (I missed out on the theories before OotP and I don’t want...
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Madam Puddifoot’s: A Call to End the Shipping Wars
by Seren Quirke By now, any Harry Potter fan worth their salt belongs to one ship or another. A ship, for the few of you who may not know, is basically a coalition of...
Madam Puddifoot’s: What’s Life Without a Little Romance?
When little Ginny is first introduced in “Sorcerer’s Stone”, she’s obviously starstruck with Harry. Over time, that changes – as do they.
Narcissa and the Malfoys
by Esther Kleinig We know so little about Narcissa Malfoy, but she will be appearing in the next book. What can we expect? I think we can expect more than just a little, like...
Where Were the Weasleys?
by Christina One thing struck me when re-reading OotP for about the zillionth time. In Chapter Nine (“The Woes of Mrs. Weasley”), when Harry is shown the photo of the original Order of the...
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.
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...
CC #101: Week of September 26, 2004
In this week’s Caption Contest image, a ghost of Hogwarts makes a dashing entry through the window. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
The North Tower #30: The New DADA Teacher
Since everybody seems to be taking a stab at this particular subject, I thought I’d do so myself. But let’s not start with a going-through of possible candidates at the end of OotP. Let’s start by looking back and see what the position has been used for so far.
