Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince chapter 15

Who is the Half Blood Prince?

Author’s note: In the book Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Harry gets an old book and it has cheats to making potions. The person who owned the book is the Half Blood Prince, but they do not know who it is. In this book response I state my predictions on who is the Half Blood Prince.

After a great weekend you completely forget about your homework that is being gone over in class. You open your text book to the page to find all the answers written in. There are shortcuts and tips covering the book from the title page to the glossary. You check the front of the book for the person who had it last. Only one name stands alone in the box. The name is the Half Blood Prince. Harry is using a past owner to help him get grades he does not deserve. He wants to know who it was who is getting him through his toughest subject.  The Half Blood Prince has to be Voldemort.

The Half Blood Price could be loads of people. My first guess was that it was James Potter. I thought so because when he was enrolled in Hogwarts, he used the same spells that were written in the margins of the text book. I quickly doubted my first impression because James Potter is not a half blood. Before I began to investigate for new possibilities I made sure they fit the description of the Half Blood Prince.

At every one of Harry’s lessons with Dumbledore, they go into a pensive. A pensive is a bowl with silvery liquid in it, when you touch it you will be sucked into the memory inside of the pensive. When Harry was in the pensive with Dumbledore, he was seeing Dumbledore’s memories. The first recollection clearly dealt with the parents of Voldemort. His parents were descendants of Salazar Slytherin, and the muggle family Riddle, making Voldemort a Half Blood. The second pensive contained Voldemort as a kid. It showed Voldemort without known any magic, already controlling it for evil uses. When at Hogwarts he certainly used agitating spells also in the text book to torture others.

Harry is connected to Voldemort in ways that only few people know. I believe that Harry received this book not by accident, but on purpose. Either someone wants him to succeed or get caught. It could be Slughorn trying to get his favorite student straight A’s. It could be Snape trying to get Harry expelled.  Lord Voldemort must be the Half Blood Prince.