Hogwarts: A History
By EmeraldMist Moon

 

 

 

 



Welcome to Hogwarts: A History!  I'll be your host and *imitates tour guide barbie voice* tour guide today!  (/tour_guide_barbie_voice)  As the owner of this site, I must say: LOOK AT THE OTHER PAGES!  Okay, I'm okay now.  Just needed to get that out of my system.  This is my page that I personally compiled, so DON"T copy!  Cheater, Cheater, Ch-Hello?  Anyone there?  *cricket chirps* I'm stopping.  *throat clearing, attempting to reclaim dignity, or at least what's left of it*  This page started out as a few questions about HPatHBP (or HPB for short), and kind of just grew from there.  Anyways, here is a simple chart to aid in understanding I have compiled, since I had a little, ok, embarrassing trouble interpreting other Potterhead pages' shortcuts. 

American: SS  UK: PS Philosopher's Stone ( I prefer the 'original' term)
CoS Chamber of Secrets  
PoA Prisoner of Azkaban  
GoF Goblet of Fire  
OotP Order of the Phoenix  
HPB Half-Blood Prince My favorite thus far, tragic
MSB The Mysterious Seventh Book  
MWoHP, or MW The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter A treasury of Myths, Legends, and Facsinating Facts A book by David Colbert, published by The Berkley Publishing Group, though only the one from the fifth book ;(

Before I go any further, here are some links to funny potter stuff, all from Mugglenet.com.  I only took my favorites/the ones that actually work.
 Snape Doing the Dance
Voldemort Singing-it's kind of...creepy
 PotterPotter... Akin to the Badger song
Potter Puppet Pals-the trick is to see the one on the left, then the one on the right.  It makes more sense that way.
Also, A link back to my site: Go Back To My Site. 


So... Here's what happened to the Harry Potter Questions Page...IT MOVED!!  So, here it is:

Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
Who is R.A.B.?

    As I sit here in a room somewhat cooler than outside, with my Harry Potter books in a teetering though proud stack beside me, with other Harry Potter type books that have helped me to understand the history behind-and in front of-the words on the pages we read, I wonder: Who is R.A.B.? Why did Voldemort mark a half-blood as his equal?  Why does my book not answer these questions?  Why do I not answer these questions?  Why am I writing in an emerald green script that looks almost as though a wizard wrote it?  That, at least, I can answer immediately.  Every summer, Harry receives his school supplies list written in emerald green ink. As for the other questions, let us begin...

    First question: Who is R.A.B.?  I believe that he (for I am sure it was a he) was the younger brother of someone we dedicated readers all know, a blood traitor in the midst of those obsessed by pure bloodedness...that's right-Sirius Black.  Though we know much about him, little is known about his family, or his past before the age of about 16, then things are murky still  until we reach Azkaban. 
R.A.B. is Regulus Black because:
    The note is addressed to the Dark Lord, not He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
    He says "I will be dead by the time you read this..."
    He (Regulus) was in You-Know-Who's inner circle...yet Dumbledore offers proof that You-Know-Who operated (operates?) alone

To the Dark Lord
I know I will be dead long before you read this
but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret
I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can.
I face death in the hope that when you meet your match,
you will be mortal once more.
R.A.B.

  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Book 6
By J.K.Rowling
p.609

Question #2
        Why did Voldemort mark a half-blood as his equal?
To answer this question, we must first quote Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Book 5, by J.K.Rowling. (p.841) 
    "THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES....BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM, BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES...AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL, BUT HE WILL HAVE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS NOT...AND EITHER MUST DIE AT THE HAND OF THE OTHER FOR NEITHER CAN LIVE WHILE THE OTHER SURVIVES...THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD WILL BE BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES...."
As you know, this could also have been Neville Longbottom, whose parents were tortured into madness by Death Eaters, who was a pure-blood...but the Dark Lord marked the half-blood...  

 

 

Have another question?  Tell me about it at MY BLOG!  go to [insert month] at the ARCHIVES  SECTION and click on it.  Next, go to the blog titled [insert blog title here] and click on it.  Simple, eh?  Now, click leave a comment and leave a comment!  It's as easy as 1, 2, 3!

Thanks, emeraldmist01