I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good  

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Connie Neil - Jun 29, 2004 12:12:54 pm PDT #3642 of 10002
brillig

NEW YORK - No word yet on when the next Harry Potter book comes out, but at least there's a title: "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince."

"Well the door opened at last and I showed you the title of book six — the genuine title, the title that will appear on the published book, the title I have been using in my head for ages and ages," author J.K. Rowling wrote on her Web site.

The British author's U.S. publisher, Scholastic, confirmed the title on Tuesday

(And let the fic speculation begin)


Kate P. - Jun 29, 2004 12:14:39 pm PDT #3643 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

The Half-Blood Prince? Please tell me that's a joke.


brenda m - Jun 29, 2004 12:16:40 pm PDT #3644 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

The Half-Blood Prince

Maybe it's the Half Blood-Prince, who was largely dismembered in a freak accident.

(I believe I mentioned my hypenation issues. Apparently they haven't gone away.)


Connie Neil - Jun 29, 2004 12:16:42 pm PDT #3645 of 10002
brillig

Nope, that's a story from Yahoo News.


Kate P. - Jun 29, 2004 12:18:55 pm PDT #3646 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Yarg. CNN confirms it too. I can't pinpoint why, exactly, but that strikes me as a really dumb title.


sumi - Jun 29, 2004 12:20:20 pm PDT #3647 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

She also said that "Half-Blood Prince" refers to neither Harry nor Voldemort.

I'm guessing Hagrid, for some reason.


Katerina Bee - Jun 29, 2004 12:20:21 pm PDT #3648 of 10002
Herding cats for fun

Oooh, a Royal Muggle-Wizard cross. This can't be good news for the Malfoy types.


Katie M - Jun 29, 2004 12:22:01 pm PDT #3649 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

I'm guessing Hagrid, for some reason.

Yeah, that was my first guess. I mean, he's the only half-blood we know, isn't he?


Connie Neil - Jun 29, 2004 12:22:23 pm PDT #3650 of 10002
brillig

Maybe Draco's mom's a Muggle. And alliterative.


§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 12:23:41 pm PDT #3651 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ugh. I don't want a book all about Hagrid. He could be a prince of whatever he's mixed with, though, couldn't he?

Ick.

I hope it's either a new character, or we discover something about Neville.