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.

[JasonBeTheMan]

Earlier someone mentioned Snape being a bad dude...and maybe it was part of a mater plan. Maybe people should lay off Snape until after they read the last book. If you paid attention, you would have noticed that Snape did not kill anyone but Dumbledore. He had his chance at Harry. I know he said that Voldemort wanted Harry for himself, but really......think about it. Dumbledore could have known about the oath Snape took. It seems to me that Dumbledore was stalling Malfoy for Snape to come. Dumbledore pleaded with Snape, but he did not plead for Snape not to kill him. Never onece did Dumbledore sayd.."Severus...please don't kill me". He just said "Severus please.." How do we know that he wasn't pleading with Snape too kill him. Afterall....if Snape didn't complete Malfoy's task, he would have died himself. I believe Dumbledore had something in mind for Snape. He might believe that Snape being alive is much more important than himself being alive. So therefore, I believe that killing Dumbledore was not the decision of Snape, but of Dumbledore himself. Let us remember that if Dumbledore opened his thoughts, Snape could easily have read them. :)

[michelle_07]

[QUOTE]Earlier someone mentioned Snape being a bad dude...and maybe it was part of a mater plan. Maybe people should lay off Snape until after they read the last book. If you paid attention, you would have noticed that Snape did not kill anyone but Dumbledore. He had his chance at Harry. I know he said that Voldemort wanted Harry for himself, but really......think about it. Dumbledore could have known about the oath Snape took. It seems to me that Dumbledore was stalling Malfoy for Snape to come. Dumbledore pleaded with Snape, but he did not plead for Snape not to kill him. Never onece did Dumbledore sayd.."Severus...please don't kill me". He just said "Severus please.." How do we know that he wasn't pleading with Snape too kill him. Afterall....if Snape didn't complete Malfoy's task, he would have died himself. I believe Dumbledore had something in mind for Snape. He might believe that Snape being alive is much more important than himself being alive. So therefore, I believe that killing Dumbledore was not the decision of Snape, but of Dumbledore himself. Let us remember that if Dumbledore opened his thoughts, Snape could easily have read them. :)
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^ i hope that's true. but i still really don't like snape. that would make a totally interesting twist for book 7. the only problem with snape killing dumbledore is that dumbledore was the only one who had a good reason to trust snape. now that dumbledore has been killed by snape, if snape truely is still on the good side, no one's gonna believe him.
but i kinda believe that snape still might be.

in the book dumbledore mentioned that the something that belonged to gryffindor was safe in his office, but couldn't gryffindor have had more than one thing belonging to him? couldn't all of the founders have had more than one thing? now that would make things tricky...

i have a question though:
was anyone else a little upset when harry said he wasn't planning on going back to hogwarts for his final year???

[/QUOTE]Of course I was devasted that Dumbledore died, even more so than Sirius (and he's my fave character). But for me, the third book is the best so far. I'm just afraid she's going to kill everybody in the last book for shock value, and my faint little heart cannot take it anymore![/QUOTE]
^i agree.

[sorry, but i don't know why the quotes aren't working...]