flexagon | HP and the HBP... who? what? Oh, it's so close it's killing me.

I've been doing a lot of Harry Potter research lately... I forget a lot between books, and it would be good to be able to read Half-Blood Prince without constantly referring back to things in the older books.

Good places to read, if anyone else wants to be obsessed too, include The Harry Potter Lexicon and the timeline there,

unplottables, and of course the FAQ on JKR's official site.

My personal guess is that the half-blood prince will be a new character, most likely a transfer from another wizarding school (we saw them in GoF, and then... nothing. You really think they aren't coming back?). We know that at one point book 2 was going to be titled The Half-Blood Prince until the plot thread got deferred leaving only little hints behind, and I did just reread Chamber of Secrets for that reason, but I don't think that means we already know the character. Thus far, every other title has referred to something we never could have guessed beforehand, and this one won't be different. The only caveat is that it could still be Hagrid... that just doesn't happen to be my guess.

Oh, and I should add that the Knight2King theory I posted about in 2003 (Ron==Dumbledore) has been pwned by JKR herself. Which makes sense to me since it really wasn't supported by the whole chess metaphor anyway, good idea though it was.