***OFFICIAL***Spoilers of Half-Blood Prince Thread

[Talk2BigSteve]

I just finished the book!! I have done nothing but read for the past 5 hours. If you want to spoil it, post in this thread. I started this after I saw that Eihli had posted a MAJOR Spoiler link in the "I got Harry Potter Book 6 Thread".

PLEASE Post all your spoilers here, and HERE ONLY!!!


Thanks,
Steve

[AEKDBet]

Book 7 is gonna be really [censored] long

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Book 7 is gonna be really [censored] long

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Do you know this or are you just speculating?

Who the [censored] is RAB? A friend of mine suggests Amelia Bones, where Amelia is her middle name.

[Dynasty]

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Who the [censored] is RAB? A friend of mine suggests Amelia Bones, where Amelia is her middle name.

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The most likely candidate is Sirius' brother- Regulus Black (a former Death Eater). I don't believe we have ever been given a middle name or initial.

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Who the [censored] is RAB? A friend of mine suggests Amelia Bones, where Amelia is her middle name.

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The most likely candidate is Sirius' brother- Regulus Black (a former Death Eater). I don't believe we have ever been given a middle name or initial.

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I've discussed that with a few people and we pretty much rejected it because of lack of evidence that he would ever do this. He was meant to be weak and he came from a long line of Dark wizards and didn't show any signs of rejecting them (he was in Slytherin). He did leave the Death Eaters (ostensibly due to being scared) but Sirius said that he wasn't important and there's no reason he would have known about horcruxes, given how difficult it was for Dumbledore to find out about them. Also, he was killed only days after leaving the Death Eaters so it would have been very difficult for him to have time to do this unless he was doing it while being a Death Eater, but Voldemort would have found out, given that he is such a skilled Leglimens. Plus, Regulus would have had to get past all of Voldemort's enchantments and there's no sign he had the skill to do so, even Dumbledore could only do it with Harry and even then he was very ill - who was Regulus' accomplice?

I don't think it was Regulus.

[spamuell]

The only thing is, the message is addressed "Dark Lord", which strongly supports the idea that whoever wrote it was a Death Eater at one point. But does it rule out all the other stuff which suggests it's not Regulus?

Dynasty, someone who is American told me to look at page 108 of Order of Phoenix, about halfway down, but as I have the UK version, I don't know what they're referring to. Any chance you could look?

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Dynasty, someone who is American told me to look at page 108 of Order of Phoenix, about halfway down, but as I have the UK version, I don't know what they're referring to. Any chance you could look?

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Kreacher is meeting Harry for the fist time. He's mumbling a lot of stuff.

It appears to be completely unrelated to any R.A.B. speculation.

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OK thanks... weird.

[AEKDBet]

Yes, finally some sort of discussion. On the length of book 7 I'm just speculating, but Harrry's journy ahead is very lord of the rings / quest-like.

On the R.A.B thing I think the most important things to consider are

1) Is it even a character we have encountered yet? I would think yes.

2 is the dark lord aspect of it which spamuell already mentioned.

edit - and "I know I will be long dead before you read this"

I'm still pissed off and curious as to how Snape had Dumbledore convinced.... thoughts?

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I'm still pissed off and curious as to how Snape had Dumbledore convinced.... thoughts?


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Well Snape explained, Dumbledore's biggest weakness was trusting people. Snape said he showed remorse for sending someone to kill James and Dumbledore believed him. He was also very accomplished at Occlumencey.

The long dead thing further suggests it's a death eater who left I think which points more to Regulus... but he seems so unlikely.