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Post by KoNeko on Aug 17, 2004 2:01:21 GMT -5
Neko, we don't necessarily know that the guy in the excerpt is McClaggan. We just know that there's going to be some new guy named McClaggan. Personally, I think the guy in the excerpt is going to be the DADA professor. Oh, my bad. I was so excited I misread basically the whole page. But basically, whoever that is in the excerpt sounds like an animagus to me...
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Post by [ Wiz ] on Aug 17, 2004 6:37:02 GMT -5
So this is what the Lexicon writes:
I'm perfectly sure that he is McClaggan and he has something to do with Godric (looked rather like an old lion) because his name sounds like a Yorkshire type of name which is the place where Godric is supposedly from.....
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Post by hermoine on Aug 17, 2004 6:37:47 GMT -5
It might be a guy, who's an animagus! See, an animagus won't go round with glasses. But if you take McGonagall, when she's in cat form, her eyes have the form of the glasses she usually wears.
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Post by Sphi on Aug 17, 2004 10:58:23 GMT -5
Harry Potter and the Veil Behind the Door Hm! It would be kinda cool if there were a whole book where Harry's already dead...predictable, but at least he can talk to lots of people...
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Post by moira on Aug 17, 2004 12:33:22 GMT -5
(Moira, the excerpt is in JKR's new site. ) Yup, I read through half of it yesterday before rushing off to work, and then the rest of it when I came back last night.
Oh man, I think my favourite thing that she said in there was the reference to "Harry Potter, episode One" and then started talking about how once all of the books are released, there will be enough of the story of James and Lily Potter to be satisfied with, and that there'd be no reason to go and make a book covering all the details of their life. I just laughed when she put Lucus down for doing that for the Star Wars films, because even though they've got all these "cool special effects" the story line sucks, and....it's just not as entertaining as the "first" three movies, you know? Anyway, getting sidetracked. Sorry, but I totally agree with what she said there...
As far as who that man may be described in an excerpt, I agree with Ko that it sounds like he's an animagis. McClaggin seems to be the best bet so far, or the DADA teacher (I'm not going to make assumptions that both of these characters are the same person). I don't think it would be a bad guy, because the description doesn't sound like someone viewing an uninvited guest.
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Post by hermoine on Aug 18, 2004 2:38:34 GMT -5
Yeah I don't think so either. He seems to be a good guy. A bit scruffy perhaps like Lupin.
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Post by Rubes on Sept 5, 2004 0:31:13 GMT -5
I was looking through Kid-Zone in the Sunday paper (It's the only part of the paper with comics ), I noticed that they had some rumours on HP6. Dumbledore's Patronus is a Phoenix etc. Well, apparently, McLagan is a new character as well Perhaps he is related to McClaggan?
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Post by hermoine on Sept 5, 2004 8:33:20 GMT -5
Wasn't there only one, which is McClaggan? I've seen both names on different sites, but they are the same person.
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Post by hermoine on Sept 14, 2004 7:54:21 GMT -5
I just found this on Mugglenet, and if it is true, then:
Two separate MuggleNet readers have written in to say that JK Rowling ruled out Hagrid as a possible Half-Blood Prince candidate at the Edinburgh book reading last August. She revealed this to both readers independently after being asked in the book tent. Thanks, Glenn and Bridget, for sharing this with us!
Note that we cannot say with 100% accuracy this is true, but both readers had UK-based IP addresses and solid alibis. Consider this a good rumor, but not yet a fact.
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Post by Ritsu on Sept 16, 2004 8:13:41 GMT -5
Hagrid was never a possibility, at least for me he wasn't. I personally don't like Hagrid that much, and giving him more importance that he unfortunately already has would be a bit too forced, don't you think? He'd be more the 'little kids hero' with a book all about himself. No, he was never a possibility to me, though he could be, I know, he's half-blood and all. But I never really thought about him as a possible candidate.
I still think that the Half Blood Prince either is an evil character, a new one, or an already existant one who was always on the background.
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Post by hermoine on Sept 16, 2004 8:16:54 GMT -5
I thought Hagrid might be a possible candidate, but I wouldn't have liked it if he were the HBP. My high hopes are that the HBP is either Lupin, Godric or Salazar.
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Post by Ritsu on Sept 16, 2004 8:41:20 GMT -5
Hmm.. I wouldn't say anything about Salazar or Godric. That description really made me think of Godric, but maybe that guy who was described on the excerpt has nothing to do with the HBP. I think that the HBP is someone who is alive and well, not someone who's been dead for long like Salazar or Godric. Because then their importance would be too minor and it wouldn't be justified that the book was called like that. It would be like, one of them was the HBP and so what? They're dead, they can't do nothing now. You know?
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Post by hermoine on Sept 16, 2004 8:51:48 GMT -5
Hmmm, I get what you mean. But maybe, if one of them were the Half Blood Prince, it could lead to other things which we don't know about yet. Take GOF for example, from the goblet we moved on to the tournament.
I know the exerpt probably has nothing to do with the person who is the HBP. It was just a thought. Personally, I really really really really wish it's Lupin. I mean, Pettigrew's part might come at the end so it will be the 7th book. JK said we'll get to know more about Lily and James's past that it won't be necessary for her to write another book on their past. Who do we know who had a connection with their past, besides Sirius who is dead? Lupin of course.
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Post by Ritsu on Sept 16, 2004 9:02:20 GMT -5
How do you know Sirius won't appear again? Remember what Luna Lovegood said when Harry was so desperate when the mirror didn't work and Nick told him that Sirius wasn't to become a ghost. She said something like "remember the veil behind the door". I think my hopes are a little too high on what's behind the veil, but
You still have another link to Lily and James' past - Wormtail. Don't forget that. I know Lupin is the most likely to tell Harry all about it, but what if we know about it through a source we weren't expecting? Don't forget it's JKR we're dealing with, unexpected is her main key. But I'm seriously looking forward more stuff on their past and on the Marauders years at Hogwarts. It means more Sirius, even though he's "dead". I didn't like OoTP that much, but that chapter on Snape's memory was wonderful. I really liked it, specially because it made me like Snape a bit more and it changed my views on some characters. James wasn't "the hero" we all though he was, in fact, he was a jerk. He changed, surely, but Snape was right after all. And the fight with Snape on the kitchen? Delicious.
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Post by hermoine on Sept 16, 2004 12:12:41 GMT -5
Hmm...yes it is certain that we will see more of the veil. But there must be a way then to have Harry going back to the ministry. I mean, with the break-in and everything, how is he supposed to go back to the department of mysteries?
Yes, Wormtail is also a possibility, I know that, but either he decides to instantly go back to the goody good side now, which is highly unlikely, or I don't know how Harry can talk to him until his yet again encounter with Voldemort. I can't see him sending him letters or something to tell him about his parents.
The fight in the kitchen? Pray do remind me a bit. I'm still re-reading POA, then it's GOF among a mixture of Sherlock Holmes to go.;D
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