Writing and The Half-Blood Prince

[lightofdaye]

First, this is your weekly 'waaaa! writing' post brought to you my ability to only have ideas and writing ability when I'm no where near my computer.


Secondly I've been reviewing Half-Blood Prince the way i experience Hp mostly these days: with stephen fry's audio book versions. Si I've been thinking about it again. I still think its the weakest Potter book for me. But I know others like it.

But why is it called 'Half-Blood Prince' that's never more than a subplot and it elevates snape to a position only Harry and Sirius have otherwise to be mention in a title.

Second why does it matter that Snape is the Half Blood Prince? I mean its a nice bit irony that Harry learns so much for the book and never from Snape but its not important to the plot of Deathly Hallows nor does it seem to be to be thematically important.

But I'd love to hear i'm wrong and its actually very important. Any ideas?

Comments

[ely-baby.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... are you trying to ruin my second favourite book of the series? LOL! Well, I do love it, after the craziness of GoF and OotP, I just love the fact that we're back to school for another almost-quiet-not-so-much-but-oh-well year, before the craziness in DH. I do think that nearlyconscious is right about the titles of the books though, "Half-Blood Prince" sounds pretty darn good to me. And probably it was a marketing choice as well, I mean: I'm sure people started wondering who the Half-Blood Prince the moment the title was revealed. I know I did.

What would you have it called, daye?

[lightofdaye]

well i wasn't trying to talk anyone out of liking it if they wanted to!

as a name it does sound pretty good. like poetic/epic like. I just was thinking it doesn't seem to mean much.

as as i said to nearly, i don't that i can think of a better title myself. lol.

[ely-baby.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is quite epic.

Speaking about something different, are you watching "The Casual Vacancy"? I know it's out tonight in the UK and I'm looking forward to watching it tomorrow when I can find it online..

[lightofdaye]

I didn't even know it was being dramatised. Oops.

Trying and failing to get some writing done this evening. So behind my deadline. :S

[ely-baby.livejournal.com]

Oh my, Happpppyyyyy Writing then! :D :D :D xx