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It dawned on me that the signature on the mysterious potions manual is very strange. In fact, why sign textbooks? In my school years, we were forced to do this, and then they checked the implementation, of course, the textbook had to be signed with a first name-surname-class, and not a nickname. The second option is for students to sign textbooks on their own initiative. For what? Yes, to return the loss if the textbook is accidentally forgotten somewhere. In this case, the book, of course, can be signed with a nickname, but on condition that the whole school knows this nickname. ;) What's the point of signing your things with your "secret name"? But if "Prince" had been Snape's more or less well-known nickname during his school days, Lupine would certainly have filled it when Harry questioned him.
Plus, underlining. Of course, the underline can change a lot over the years ... Or maybe not much. ;) Harry and his comrades have been seeing Snape's handwriting for 6 years, but they have not even thought about the presence of some resemblance between him and the hand of the mysterious author of the notes.
In addition - and someone has already paid attention to this - there is some discrepancy in time. Textbook "Prince" - for the 6th grade. Most likely, the author of the notes wrote them in diary mode, that is, he entered his developments there at the time of their appearance. There, among other things, the spell "levicorpus" is written. In "UF", fifth grader Harry, observing "Snape's worst memory", considers his father to be his age. And there he sees the application of this spell. Mismatch - s! However, this argument is not particularly strong, because, firstly, there was no exact indication of the year in Snape's memories, and it could well have been the 6th grade, and secondly, Snape, as a particularly gifted student, could well study a 6th grade textbook a few years ahead of schedule.
But still, who and why could sign the textbook "Half-Blood Prince"?
Option 1 - the textbook was signed by Eileen Prince when she studied at Hogwarts, the notes also belong to her. Yes, but she is "according to her passport" Prince, and not a half-breed.
Option 2 - the textbook was signed by Severus Snape, and his notes. Arguments against this are given above. Let us also leave aside the question of why he is so scattered with personal papers.
Option 3 - the textbook and notes belonged to a once unknown person, and the coincidence of the signature with the maiden name of Snape's mother is nothing more than a coincidence.
Option 4 - "Half-Blood Prince" - this is still Severus Snape, but the inscription and notes were not made by him. The signature is the essence of the donation: "This textbook (now) belongs to the Half-Blood Prince." Why is he lying on the pulpit unattended? We can also assume extreme options - the gift never reached the new owner, or was subsequently taken back by an unknown donor and only then abandoned.
Option 5 - (In my opinion - the most likely.) The notes (and the textbook) belonged to an unknown person, the signature was made in such a way that they would think of Snape, but not immediately. Those. a certain artifact is once again thrown into the school. Snape "heard a ring" that someone was hiding behind his name, but did not know exactly what and where to look.
I consider it quite probable that a strong magician can easily find a thing that once belonged to him and which he used much and regularly. So, IMHO, if Snape really forgot his textbook in the pulpit, and then remembered about its existence and decided to take it, he would have found it and taken it. But finding "I don't know what" is much more difficult. :)

« Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince» ( English Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) is the sixth book in a series of novels J.K. Rowling about the teen wizard Harry Potter. The book describes the sixth year of the heroes' training in Hogwarts.

The book came out on English language July 16 2005, the official Russian paper edition is out December 3 2005. Alternative translations of the book appeared on the web Internet already in the summer 2005.

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In England, there are mysterious incidents that even Muggles notice. All charges are addressed to the Government of the country. Former Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge meets with the Muggle Prime Minister and explains to him that the cause of these incidents is the Second Wizarding War, which began after Voldemort was reborn. Fudge also introduces him to the new Minister for Magic. Rufus Scrimgeour.

Severus Snape makes an unbreakable vow Narcissa Malfoy about protecting her son Draco Malfoy and looking after him at school: he promises to complete the task that Voldemort gave the young man if Draco himself cannot do it.

Albus Dumbledore picks up Harry Potter from the Dursleys' house, along the way declaring them a severe reprimand for their mistreatment of Harry. Harry learns that the house on Grimmauld Place, along with all the property, including the house elf Kreacher, passed to him by inheritance from Sirius. Dumbledore and Harry go to the home of a former Hogwarts teacher Horace Slughorn and persuade him to take the vacant teaching post at Hogwarts. Harry then heads to the Weasley family at their Burrow, where he stays for the rest of the summer. He learns his grades on the OWL exam.

While visiting Diagon Alley, the heroes see how Draco Malfoy visits the shop of dark artifacts "Gorbin and Burke" and agrees with the seller about something important. On the Hogwarts Express train ride to school, Harry tries to find out what Malfoy is up to by eavesdropping on his conversation with the other Slytherins. However, he fails to learn anything important; in addition, Malfoy, finding Harry and left alone with him, immobilizes, beats and leaves him on the floor in the compartment. Harry is discovered by a very sad and worried Nymphadora Tonks.

At Hogwarts

After the start educational process at Hogwarts, Harry and Ron Weasley are given on loan the old textbooks of the "Advanced Potions Course" that were kept at the school. Harry gets an old, battered and signed "Property of the Half-Blood Prince". His mysterious former owner made a lot of notes in the book, and following them, Harry becomes the best in Potions lessons, and even wins the very rare and difficult Felix Felicis luck potion in the competition. From the newspapers, Harry learns about new attacks and murders of the Death Eaters: they killed their former member Igor Karkaroff and kidnapped the wand maker, Mr. Ollivander. Harry begins private lessons with Dumbledore, in which the director of Hogwarts tells him all the important knowledge regarding Voldemort and his immediate family. Harry notices that Dumbledore's hand has a serious injury.

On a trip to Hogsmeade, Harry, Ron, and Hermione witness a curse placed on Katie Bell with a silver necklace that she was supposed to give to Dumbledore. Harry is sure that Malfoy gave this necklace to Cathy, but he has no proof.

Having become the captain of the Quidditch team in the new academic year, Harry coaches the new Gryffindor team, which also includes Ron Weasley (goalkeeper), who, due to his complexes, brings the team a lot of problems, and Ginny Weasley (hunter), with whom Harry gradually begins to fall in love . At the Slug Club party, Harry overhears Snape's conversation with Malfoy, where Snape denounces Malfoy for his actions, offers to help, and talks about the Unbreakable Vow made to his mother.

During one of the following sessions with Dumbledore, Harry uses the Pensieve to watch a conversation between Slughorn and Riddle about Horcruxes, but this memory turns out to be clearly tampered with. Dumbledore instructs Harry to retrieve Slughorn's true memories. Harry attempts to question Slughorn, but Slughorn realizes that this is Dumbledore's assignment. After this conversation, Slughorn and Harry's relationship, which had previously been good, deteriorated.

The mead specially prepared for Dumbledore turns out to be poisoned. The victim this time is Ron Weasley. Kreacher and Dobby are sent to spy on Malfoy on assignment from Harry, as he suspects that Draco is up to something bad. At the next meeting, Dumbledore shows Harry two more memories related to Voldemort.

Harry decides to use the "Felix Felicis" luck potion to get Slughorn's true memory of his conversation with Voldemort. He succeeds. According to the memory, Slughorn told Riddle about Horcruxes - things in which you can enclose a piece of your soul, and then in the event of the death of a person's body, his soul will not die, and the person will live. According to Dumbledore, Voldemort was one of the few wizards who decided on such dark magic. He decided to create seven Horcruxes, and he did. Moreover, he did not want to use ordinary things for Horcruxes, he wanted to use magical, rich and historical artifacts. It was thanks to the Horcruxes that Voldemort survived the attack on the one-year-old Harry. To kill the Dark Lord, you must destroy all seven Horcruxes. And Dumbledore, in his own words, knew approximately what objects the Horcruxes were enclosed in and where they were located. Two of them have already been destroyed - Tom Riddle's diary and the Gaunt ring (Dumbledore's hand suffered from the latter). The Headmaster made a suggestion about the other five Horcruxes: probably Voldemort wanted to use the relics of the four founders of Hogwarts as Horcruxes. One of them is known - the Slytherin medallion, which was kept in the Gaunt family. Another is the Hufflepuff cup that Riddle stole from an old witch. It was also some Ravenclaw thing. But the relic of Gryffindor Riddle failed to get - sword of gryffindor kept in Dumbledore's office. Also, Voldemort can use his snake, Nagini, as a Horcrux.

Potter continues to follow Draco and witnesses him tantrum in the closet. Finding Harry, Malfoy engages in a duel with him, but with the help of the Sectumsempra spell (which Harry did not know about the terrible action), read in the book of the Half-Blood Prince, Potter severely injures Malfoy. Snape appears immediately, takes Malfoy to the hospital wing and, returning to the toilet, demands that Harry show him all his textbooks. Harry manages to keep the Half-Blood Prince's textbook from Snape. The teacher gives Harry a weekly punishment on Saturdays for the rest of the school year. In the final inter-house Quidditch match, which Harry misses due to punishment, Gryffindor wins.

From Professor Trelawney, Harry learns that it was Snape who overheard part of her prophecy about Harry and Voldemort, which means that Voldemort hunted the Potters because of him and because of him he killed Harry's parents. However, Dumbledore tells Harry that Snape has repented of his deed and therefore switched to the right side, remaining with Voldemort as a spy for the Order of the Phoenix.

During the next meeting, Dumbledore and Harry go to a cave on the coast of the sea in England, where Riddle once discovered his magical powers, who was here on an excursion with a shelter. This is where Voldemort placed one of the Horcruxes. He carefully protected him: the horcrux was placed in the middle of a lake full of infernals (living corpses following Voldemort's orders, in this case they were guarding the horcrux). To achieve a Horcrux, you have to drink a potion that hurts the drinker. This task is taken on by Dumbledore, it takes away his strength. The Horcrux turns out to be a medallion. Harry takes him and they return to Hogsmeade. There, Harry sees that Voldemort's sign is hanging over one of the towers of Hogwarts - a black mark. Despite the fact that Dumbledore is very weak, both wizards fly to the school using brooms.

Arriving at the Astronomy Tower, they hear some steps. Harry under the invisibility cloak. Dumbledore paralyzes Harry with a spell, which, being in a very bad condition, does not have time to confront Draco Malfoy, who has entered the top of the tower. He knocks his wand out of Dumbledore's hands. Next, Malfoy tries to kill the director (this was Voldemort's task), and also reports that he, with the help of the Disappearing closet in the Help-room, led the Death Eaters to Hogwarts, who are fighting the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore's squad below. But Malfoy lacks the courage to kill Albus. Four Death Eaters appear at the top of the tower - the werewolf Gray, Yaxley and brother and sister - Amicus and Alecto Carrow. They rush Malfoy. Then Snape rises into the tower and does the work of Malfoy himself - he kills Dumbledore.

Harry is able to move again. He tries to stop Snape using the spells from the Half-Blood Prince's book, but Snape very quickly deflects them, after which he says that he is the Half-Blood Prince. Once outside of Hogwarts, Malfoy, Snape and the other Death Eaters transgress.

All the next day Phoenix Fawkes sings his sad song. Hogwarts teachers and students mourn the death of Dumbledore. Harry discovers that the Horcrux is a fake, despite the fact that someone with the initials R. A. B. stole the original. Hermione tries to find out who it is, but all to no avail. They decide to bury Dumbledore right on the school grounds. Many employees of the ministry, Dumbledore's friends, many wizards come to see Dumbledore on his last journey. Academic year ends. The students are getting ready to go home. Harry believes that he will not be returning to school next year as he must find all the Horcruxes. Ron and Hermione are also ready to leave school and help Harry in his search. In the meantime, before the age of seventeen, Harry returns to the Dursleys again.

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