"Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" out tomorrow!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well HP does have its own logic. Once you accept the basic premise, everything flows from that. However, horcruxes are just something out of left field really.

[Sandman]

Sorry, I still don't buy this backfiring horcrux theory. The counter-curse provided by Harry's mum's sacrifice should surely have protected him from being made a horcrux, even accidently.

[Nostromo]

Then how do you explain Harry getting some of Voldemort's powers, the ability to speak parseltongue, his insight into Voldemort's moods?

[Nostromo]

And whether Snape is evil or not, its hard to decide. In fact, it could go both ways. Facts points in both direction. Remember, he not only made the unbreakable vow to protect Draco, but also to carry out the task Voldemort gave to Draco, even though Snape didn't know at the time that Voldemort told Draco to kill Dumbledore. Snape obviously lied to Narcissa and Bellatrix when he told them that he knew about the plan, otherwise he wouldn't have questioned Draco about it later on.

[Nacht]

I think he questioned Draco about how he planned to do it, not what he was going to do.

[Nostromo]

Possibly. But, again, the clues point both ways. He could be questioning Draco about how he plans to do it, or he could be questioning him to know both, what's his mission and how he plans to do it. Anyway, speculating about all this is a waste of time, since Rowling made damn sure the clues point in a number of directions.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Sandman
Sorry, I still don't buy this backfiring horcrux theory. The counter-curse provided by Harry's mum's sacrifice should surely have protected him from being made a horcrux, even accidently.

Since a horcrux is far more dark magic than simply the killing curse, why would it have been able to protect Harry?

[Pekka]

This is beyond nerd.. this is just.. sad.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Pekka
This is beyond nerd.. this is just.. sad.

Isn't it about time you write an absurdly long post about thoroughly thrashing a group of prepubescent punks?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Verto:

[Pekka]

that isn't sad though.. that's .. divine.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Pekka
This is beyond nerd.. this is just.. sad.

Yes, we're definitely not sponge worthy right now. I'm trying to cut down myself, and managed to drastically cut down my nerd ways, but as you can see, your inner nerd sadly never goes completely away.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Nerds unite!!

People should watch the end of "Revenge of the Nerds" again!

[GePap]

Originally posted by nostromo
Then how do you explain Harry getting some of Voldemort's powers, the ability to speak parseltongue, his insight into Voldemort's moods?

The explination need not be that of Hoxcrux. After all, Ginny while possesed by the soul of Voldermort did not have any insights into anything, and in fact was unaware of the role she was playing, and a puppet of Voldermort.

We have already seens hoxcrux in action, in the seocnd book, and the behavior of someone controlled by a piece of his soul is very different from the "feelings" Potter gets.

Even if we don;t know much about these things, having part of the soul of someone inside you must be an extremely radical thing.

Perhaps Voldemorts plan was to make Harry a Hoxcrux in the first place and that plan failed, hence the scar, whatever.

I seriously doubt part of your soul going into another person is something that can EVER be accidental.

[Guynemer]

An addendum to my earlier post, regarding Harry's other friends...

Actually, the two (former) students I'd most want at my side, by far, are Fred and George. Rowling has made a point in the last two books of commenting on how incredibly clever and skilled they really are, in spite of their academic difficulties. I think they will have much more to do in the next book apart from running their shop.