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.

[dahding]

no sammi, it was not said that it had to be an object. it can be anything really. case in point, nagini the snake. it's more or less, anything of significant value to voldemort. himself, which is like god to himself, the diary which proves that he is heir to the slytherin throne, the locket that was originally salazar slytherin's, hufflepuff's cup, marvolo's ring. and of course, his lovely snake, nagini.

trelwaney reveals that snape was the actual spy. we knew already that a spy was listening halfway through, but got thrown out by the barman. she says how there was a disturbance caused by snape, because he was thrown out for eavesdropping on their conversation, "because he wanted tips from my expertise on how to get a new job, like the DADA post."

dumbledore's hand was burnt through the ring. there was a dark and horrible curse that was placed on it, to prevent people from destroying it maybe? i can't remember exactly, but i thought it was something like a poorly performed killing curse or something like that. so dumbledore got an owwie.