was it just me or was the scene where we find out who the HBP was a little anti climatic. Of course I am not talking about DD dying or the fight between the DA and DE, i mean how Snape just comes out with it. I expected a fuller explanation of the whole thing, I mean JK kept that story line going throughout, heck, the book is named after him! I know that Hermione figures out Snape's mother, I don't understand the significance to that either. I dunno, I was just a little bummed about the revealing of the prince. What do you think?

You make an interesting point. Let's examine your theory thoroughly

Yes I too expected a fuller explanation of the whole thing. I was waiting for that chapter long explanation that Dumbledore gives in every book. Most unfortunately though, it was impossible for book 6. Then again, a fuller explaination would not fit into what was happening. You see, at the time, Snape is running away from Hogwarts and Harry is trying to catch up to him. Do you honestly think Snape is just going to stop in his tracks and give Harry a whole detailed story? Of course not! That would be like Harry telling Voldemort a funny, joyful story in the graveyard scene of Goblet of Fire!

I agree but you know what? That's just how Rowling "rolls"

I think there is INCREDIBLE significance in this . I read a theory that showed the similarities between Madam Pince and Eileen Prince; the one letter difference, the "hook-nosed" description of Madam Pince in book 6, I mean the signs are all there! The person believed that Snape was perhaps protecting his mother from Voldemort by employing her at Hogwarts and changing her name.

I think it's not at all anticlimatic, as it's built up.
Y'know, like the sectumsempra scene- we get a hint that snape suspects something about the hbp book.
The general idea of who the half-blood prince throughout the book is built up much in the same way as the mystery of tom riddle's diary in CoS.
I think it's all quite good... I think when you find out it's Snape you think back and you're like 'OHHHH yeahh that makes total sense!'
plus it's even started in OoTP; with the 'levicorpus' stuff.
Think it's done well.
S'what I think.

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It briefly crossed my mind that Snape had something to do with the whole thing. I wasn't super shocked when I found out it was him, but I was saying 'Oh, yeah, that would make some sense...' as you said above. And I did think Harry was being a bit stupid to not wonder more as to why Snape was so suspisious.

Harry's great but he's not always so sharp.

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I don't know if I just get lost in the story or what, but i did not think the revealing of the prince was anti climatic. I didn't see it coming, and in fact, other than azkaban, half blood prince was the book that evoked the most reaction out of me. i t hink somewhere in the 5th book snape became my fave character, so the sixth book was quite a feat.

Anyone go back and read the ending of the sixth now that dh is all said and done and think, wow it was so obvious, snape was good all along? seriously I think the only thing that made us ever question his loyalty were all the brilliant debates and theories that the truth might be otherwise. What a fabulous group of thinking minds we all have! We will have much to talk about for years to come. Whos saving up their books to pass on to their kids?

True. But then again, allot of us didn't seem to catch on, either. Some (myself included) did think there was more to it, but never did it occer to us that Snape might actually me the Half-Blood Prince!

JKR is quite good! Dangling it right in front of our noses' without us even knowing!



Not me! I'm saving up my cash for some proper books! XD But I will introduce my children to the brilliant land of Harry Potter once they reach the proper age!

well i think everyone would like one of those long discussion scenes like there are at the end of every book...but well there's no one to explain....dumbledore, the man who know everything, is dead...snape, the one it's about, is just a little busy at the moment...and all the other adults are a little shooken up, and they don't know anything...so i think we just have to settle for what we have.

I don't think it was anti-climatic at all; we should consider that Dumbledore's death was a blow to Harry, and how, Snape, the "murderer" would sit down and explain in a more adequate way that he was the "Half-Blood Prince"??...
Taking into account the relationship between Harry and Severus, and that Harry was suspecting Snape to be involved in something concerned with Lord Voldemort, to my view that propper explanation would have been completely weird and senseless.