Who is the half prince?
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Why u hope is Cho?? She become kinda brat in the later part of story. I like Luna, think she's better for HarryOriginally posted by iveco:It could be Cho (hope it is). Other candidates are Dumbledore and Remus.
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I want Cho dead and Harry paired with Ginny.Originally posted by p1ll0w:Why u hope is Cho?? She become kinda brat in the later part of story. I like Luna, think she's better for Harry -
i think that the half-blood prince will be either Voldermort or Harry himself
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Sorry clicked double...
Anyway better make this post useful...
Y Ginny? No Harry shouldn't be paired with her... If u look at Harry's behaviour, u'll understand y Cho Became the way she did. Ginny is like a sis to Harry -
How would you expect Harry to talk about Cedric in front of Cho (his 1st love & Cedric's steady) without hurting her? Already Harry was in shock from witnessing Cedric's horrible death. I can't blame him if he wants to banish this unpleasant memory from his mind. Cho was being an irritant, a real pest. Unfortunately, most people think one or more of the Weasleys are superfluous.Originally posted by G.I. Lim:Y Ginny? No Harry shouldn't be paired with her... If u look at Harry's behaviour, u'll understand y Cho Became the way she did. Ginny is like a sis to Harry -
Hmm...no the author said it somewhere harry is not the hbp ....besides the title wont make sense if harry is indeed hbp.. Then it will mean "harry and harry" isnt it?
Yeah, at the point of time Harry's still think he caused Cedrics death.....cos he offered to share the trophy.....
I suppose we cant really blame Cho too much tho...girls will be girls ...haha (getting ready to be bished by the girls here)
Anyway..i still pinning Luna to be harry's girl ..cos they both share some common stuff...losing parent/s ..can here voices behind the veil..both in a way "outcast" .... Also i like her name "Luna"
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On Page 575 in OOTP Ron said "We've got about as much chance of winning the Quidditch Cup this year as Dad's got of becoming Minister of Magic." Well they did win the Quidditch Cup maybe Mr. Weasley will become Minister of MagicOriginally posted by TIB1133B:Extracted from Mugglenet:
"There is to be a new Minister for Magic. We learn much more about Voldemort. No information revealed on whether Snape will be the Half-Blood Prince. HBP will be an intense book, but with light-hearted moments." (Arthur Levine, editor at Scholastic)
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JKR herself has clarified that Arthur will not replace Cornelius Fudge. It is on her official website.Originally posted by sharkenstein:On Page 575 in OOTP Ron said "We've got about as much chance of winning the Quidditch Cup this year as Dad's got of becoming Minister of Magic." Well they did win the Quidditch Cup maybe Mr. Weasley will become Minister of Magic
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WITCH FROM TODAY ONWARDS YOU ARE NOT WELCOME IN HOGWARTS SCHOOL ANYMORE. ALL IN MY HAVEN ARE TO IGNORE THIS NAME STARTING FROM TODAY!
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Originally posted by G.I. Lim:
Jo said that it's not Harry or Voldy or not Mark Evans for that matter people look too much into it. Haha, may Colin, Dennis, Justin, Seamus... Haha Dudley? Nah, er lets think, Dumby? He would be old king. Remus? One of the Patil twins? CandyShop's stuck in my head!
i think that the [b]half-blood prince will be either Voldermort or Harry himself[/b] -
I want Ginny dead and Harry paired with Cho.Originally posted by iveco:I want Cho dead and Harry paired with Ginny.
Si Xin Ba! Iveco! -
JKR has already killed off any chance of Harry/Cho romance at the end of the fifth book.Originally posted by 798:I want Ginny dead and Harry paired with Cho.
Si Xin Ba! Iveco! -
Two more months left before HbP is released. I can feel the power already.
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Waiting ...Originally posted by iveco:Two more months left before HbP is released. I can feel the power already. -
Did anybody pre-order the book?
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Half-Blood Prince Security Measures
As published by "The Sun", 5/23/05
Forty guards - backed by CCTV cameras - have been brought in to scan production lines at a secret Potter plant in old East Germany.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood prince is being produced in seperate chunks to stop workers leaking the plot before its official July 16 release.
More than 1,000 staff are scrutinised on the way in and out of the Druckerei GGP works at Possneck, which is surrounded by an 8ft chain-link fence with a guarded gate.
Security staff have orders to examine all bags - and even lunchboxes - as well as make random checks on lockers, desks and other workplace areas.
Mobile phones and recording devices are banned to stop printers reciting sections of text about Harry's adventures at Hogwarts School.
Publisher Bloomsbury is desperate to avoid a repeat of the security shambles before the launch of the last epic - Harry Potter and the Order of The Pheonix - when a copy was found in a Suffolk field. Author JK Rowling, 39, is especially anxious that the identity of the half-blood prince is not revealed to fans before they buy the book.
An employee at the plant said, "It feels like we are dealing with a manual on how to start a nuclear war instead of a children's book. We have all been photographed and we must wear special badges at all times. Two guards are positioned permanently in the space dividing the bookbinding department from the printing presses. And there are always four outside the main entrance checking everyone in and out.
"Security staff are even riding shotgun on the container filled with shredded waste when it is driven to be emptied. We heard the British publishers wrote a clause saying we would be liable for something like £2million is one single word of the book leaked out."
The plant is about 70 miles from Germany's POW castle Colditz. The first batch of 250,000 Half-Blood Prince books will be ready within two weeks.
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by only 36 pages.. well.. that doesn't make a lot of difference...Originally posted by iveco:According to a thread @ Fictionalley Park, the sixth book will be 608 pages long (UK edition). That is definitely shorter than the fourth one at 636.
I'm more interested to know how Harry would overcome his vengence in his heart.. since Sirius Died the last episode and he seems to be burnt with hatred. Will he be lured to the dark side.. -
Harry Potter 'secret leaked'
Is Dumbledore really biting the dust so early? I hope not.
By Valentine Low, Evening Standard
24 May 2005
Bookmakers fear part of the plot of the next Harry Potter novel has been leaked.
A betting website has been inundated with bets on the death of Hogwarts' head teacher Dumbledore - all from the town where the book is being printed. The bets were refused by one chain of bookmakers which claimed it was "obvious" the manuscript had been read.
Claims that Dumbledore would die were sparked when author JK Rowling hinted about a death in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. Now a mysterious series of events in Suffolk suggests the secret may be out.
A cluster of £50 bets have been placed on Dumbledore being the victim - and it would not take the powers of the boy wizard to deduce what has happened. Most of the bets have been placed in the town of Bungay - which just happens to be where the new Harry Potter adventure is being printed.
Ed Pownall, of the internet betting site Blue Square told The Sun: "We have taken nearly £6,000 worth of bets on Dumbledore in the past seven days. All have been played in Bungay or nearby Beccles. A lot of punters have opened new accounts and placed a maximum bet of ?50 each on what is an obscure market. That made us sit up and take note."
As a result Blue Square slashed the odds for Dumbledore - played by Sir Michael Gambon after the death of Richard Harris - from 2/1 a week ago to 4/6 before they suspended betting last night. And Warren Lush of Ladbrokes said: "We weren't foolish enough to take the bets. There are obviously people out there who have read the manuscripts."
Printers Clay of Bungay are believed to be helping with the printing of the new book - due to be published on 16 July - although publishers Bloomsbury moved some of the printing to Germany.
-thisislondon.co.uk
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Forty-three more days left. I feel the power getting stronger and stronger.
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Shots were fired in a failed sting operation to recover stolen HbP manuscripts, according to this report:
Shots fired in Harry Potter sting
Claire Cozens and agencies
Friday June 3, 2005
Two men were arrested after shots were fired in a terrifying gunfire incident after a Sun reporter went to meet two men selling a stolen copy of the long-awaited new Harry Potter novel.
Veteran reporter John Askill was chased by two armed men after he tried to snatch the book without handing over any money in a classic sting operation.
Askill arranged a meeting with the men in Kettering, Northants, after they contacted the Sun earlier this week claiming to have an advance copy of the book - Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, the sixth title in the series - for sale for around £30,000.
He turned up with a hidden video camera and a photographer in tow, with the intention of obtaining the book and returning it to the police.
According to Sun sources shots were fired over Askill's head as he tried to escape with the book.
"He grabbed the book and tried to leave the house, at which point the hoodlums came after him with guns and sticks," said the source.
The Mirror also tipped off about book
But the violent end to the sting was just part of the story - tonight it turned out that the race to catch the Harry Potter villains also involved its arch-rival, the Mirror, with both tabloids claiming to have rescued the book, which is now in police hands.
Neither the Sun nor the Mirror intended to publish any of the book, which is due out on July 16th - but the Mirror, it transpired, was first on the case.
A spokesman said the paper was also contacted by the men but that it tipped off Northamptonshire police yesterday.
A Mirror reporter and photographer visited the two men at their flat on Thursday night and tipped off the police after spotting firearms.
Both the Mirror and Sun stories are expected to be splashed in tomorrow's paper.
"Northamptonshire police were called with information that a person was attempting to sell a copy of the new Harry Potter novel and that the person was in possession of firearms," said a police spokesman today.
"Police began an investigation into the allegations but in the meantime fresh allegations were made this morning that a firearm had been discharged in the property in Kettering.
"As a result of this a firearms operation was launched at a residential address in Tresham Street in Kettering town centre earlier today which resulted in two men being arrested on suspicion of theft and firearms offences.
"The two men are aged 37 and 19 and are both from Kettering and have been taken to separate police stations in the county. Two books were recovered and they are currently being held in secure circumstances as evidence by Northamptonshire police."
No weapon has yet been found, according to a Northamptonshire police spokesman.
Chief Supt Dean Smith of Northamptonshire police paid tribute to the Mirror for reporting the incident last night:
"The Daily Mirror has behaved exceptionally honourably in bringing about the arrest of these people. It is as a result of information supplied by the Daily Mirror that we've made these arrests. One man was apprehended close to the premises where the books were found, and the other man gave himself up.
"Armed officers were deployed after we were told by the Mirror that suspected weapons were seen by its journalists. There were problems taking possession of the books because of a Rottweiler dog within the flat. That situation was dealt with and the books are now under lock and key."
The last edition of the bestselling Harry Potter series, The Order of the Phoenix, was found in a Suffolk field and handed over to the Sun, which duly returned it to the publishers.
Security surrounding the latest book tight
Security surrounding the latest book is extremely tight - according to the Sun last week, 40 guards backed by CCTV cameras have been brought in to scan production lines at a secret Potter plant in old East Germany.
Staff are scrutinised on the way in and out of the printing works, with mobile phones and recording devices also banned to prevent the contents of the book being read out or photographed.
The book is also said to have been produced in separate chunks to stop workers leaking the plot before its official release. - The Guardian -
From pressgazette.co.uk:
Harry Potter's secret
Published: Thursday, June 9, 2005
By Dominic Ponsford
Attempts to sell copies of the new Harry Potter book to journalists have led author JK Rowling to issue a wide-ranging injunction to protect the bookÂ’s secrecy.
Last Friday, Sun reporter John Askell was shot at trying to take a copy of the book which had been offered to him for £50,000. Two men have since been arrested on police bail following the incident in Kettering, Northants.
Now Rowling has issued un unusual "John Doe" injunction to ensure the plot of her book remains a secret until its official publication date of July 16.
David Hooper, from law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, said: "This far-reaching injunction applies to anyone who has, or has had, possession of all or part of the book without the consent of Bloomsbury Publishing and JK Rowling.
"This type of injunction is known as a John Doe order because those to whom it applies are not named. It doesn't just apply to the two named people who were attempting to sell copies of the book. It catches anyone who is in unauthorised possession of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
"This injunction is much wider in scope than the John Doe order obtained for the previous Harry Potter book."
According to Hooper, the order also stops anyone who may come into possession of all or part of the book from disclosing it or any information in it to any third party and requires immediate delivery up of the book or any copies of it to the publisher. He said that anyone with notice of the order is liable to be imprisoned or be fined for contempt of court if they breach its terms. -
My first cousin once removed in Melbourne placed a hold on Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince at the local library more than a month ago. I was on the phone with my cousin yesterday and he told me so.
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Two years ago, on this day, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released to much fanfare.
Back to topic, it is less than a month away to the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. The excitement is rising with each minute. The power is overwhelming. -
Less than 2 weeks before the Half-blood Prince comes to town. THe excitement is mounting. I can't wait any longer.
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One American fan wrote an 804-page take on the Half-blood Prince. In her version, the evil Professor Snape is the HbP.
Read more about it here