harry potter and the half-blood prince

[blueminder]

Finally, my opinion on the book.
Kept in an LJ-cut for spoilers about. You have been warned.

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[orca_]

Harry & Ginny
I can just see Rowling and the writers from Spider-man having a pleasant cup of tea and pastries on a nice Sunday afternoon whilst contemplating how the book should end.
Totally agree.

As for theories, this fleshes out many of the popular ones, including R.A.B. = Regulus and Snape = spy, only they are much more well-explained and show the consistency they bear with the books. Allow me to focus on the latter: It would seem that Snape is very clever - a spy against Voldemort, pretending to be a spy for Voldemort. If you read Goblet of Fire again, you'll notice near the end that Dumbledore wants Snape to do something he doesn't want known, after Harry wakes up. Notice that in the sixth book, Snape says he returned to Voldemort a few hours after the rebirth. It's hard to find these three facts coincidental.

That LJ entry has an interesting proof that R.A.B. is very likely Regulus Black - the locket at 12 Grimmauld Place mentioned in Order of the Phoenix. It was "magically sealed shut". That's another odd coincidence, no?

The book seemed to have a lot of plot...but too much of it left to the imagination. The impression after reading it was that there was a lot to know, but so much of it would be left to you and/or the seventh book.

I doubt we'll be seeing much of 12 Grimmauld Place in the seventh book; do recall that it implied he would be Voldemort-hunting, and somehow I doubt that he'll be doing it from home. Personally, the best plan to me would be to track down and destroy the other Horcruxes, and if Snape gets in the way, kill 'im. Yes, I know, he's probably on Harry's side now, but that doesn't change the fact that Snape got his parents killed. Snape would have known that Prophecy would get somebody killed, and if he cared about anybody's life, he would have kept it to himself, knowing it would get somebody killed. For that, he deserves to die. As for Wormtail, he should be tortured into admission that he is a backstabbing prick then killed. After destroying the Horcruxes, train until Voldemort finds him, then stun or body-bind him until they can get dementors in to complete his soul loss (since he's lost most of it already) - oddly, the opposite of what he was after attempting to kill Harry when he was one.

[blueminder]

I actually think Snape being a spy was obvious in Order of the Phoenix in all truth. Also, the scene when Snape and Dumbledore are arguing in the forest places alot of speculation on what was actually discussed, perhaps Dumbledore wanted Snape to kill him if he needed to.

[orca_]

Yeah, I've been rereading Order of the Phoenix and I agree, it seems obvious. But I've begun to wonder: which side was he really on? He's obviously a spy for one side, pretending to be a spy for the other. But which side was he really working for? All we know is that he was a spy for Dumbledore, and he was a spy of Voldemort. Obviously, those are mutually exclusive, so he must have one of the two fooled, and frankly, none of the books make it clear which side he's really on.