Half-Blood Prince Discussion, Spoilers Options

[jordanriane]

Since Anna mentioned a new topic for discussion of the book, I figured I'd just create the new topic, that way people can talk about the book here, instead of in the other thread, that people can use who haven't finished/read the book yet.

and i also know who  RAB is.

Regulus Black, the brother of sirius black, who was murdered by the dark lord ages ago.

How were you able to figure that it was him?



The only real problem I had with this book, was the first chapter, with the Minister. I don't really see that it was too relevent, other then telling us that the muggle world saw these deaths are regular murders (aside from trying to figure out how someone died when they were alone and locked up) and whatnot.. But it was just really irrelevent, and ticked me off that it had really little meaning with the rest of the book.

Maybe it'll tie in for book 7, hopefully.

[Individualityy]

"R.A.B" stands for Regulus A. Black. I think the A stands for "Alphard"..which was Sirius's uncle's name.

It makes sense too. Regulus wanted to back out of Voldemort's fold after he found the horcrux. He realized that Voldemort was only in it for himself and that he was only using his Death Eaters for his own selfish purposes. He got killed because he found out about the horcrux and wanted to back out..probably.

Now, about Snape and Dumbledore..

I would be convinced that Snape was evil, through and through, if it hadn't been for Dumbledore pleading in the end. Dumbledore is not known to beg for his life, he's a very calm and collected person. So that sort of unnerved me. What on earth was he begging for? Perhaps, as Dumbledore had made Harry promise him..Dumbledore made Snape promise him that if the circumstance came that he had to kill Dumbledore..he had to do it. Perhaps Dumbledore and Snape have some master plan going on, and it would have been all ruined if Snape had stood up for Dumbledore.

Besides..that whole thing that Malfoy was assigned to do..what if it was to kill Dumbledore? Hm? And Snape made an unbreakable promise that he would take over the job if Draco failed. And as we all know, the punishment for not following an unbreakable vow is death. So, it was either Snape's life or Dumbledore's..and if Dumbledore made Snape promise him that if the circumstance comes..he'd have to kill him..then I see a clear reason why Snape killed Dumbledore.

But what made Dumbledore trust Snape? What plans did Snape and Dumbledore make? Is Snape a double agent? Going for the winning side..but acting as a friend of both? Hm.