False alarm.

[icarus]

It turns out Amazon was just striking terror in my heart covering their bases. I got the book on time and should not have believed random emails about "we might be late." *panics again*

Have read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Loved it. Though if I knew someone about to read the HP series right now, I'd tell them to wait until the next book is out because, while this is not quite a cliff-hanger, it's so close to one as to leave you a little hungry.

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[mark356.livejournal.com]

That was what I hoped when I first read it, but I wasn't quite sure about the specifics of that last section.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

What makes me suspicious is the vagueness about Nagini being a horcrux and the fact that at least one of the horcruxes is not a special talisman. Then there's the fact that V probably had one horcrux left over when he was unable to find a talisman or item from Gryffindor, and the fact that V was pretty casual about his bits o' soul.

And, frankly, the theory that Dumbledore just threw his life away drinking the poison to get to one of the horcruxes... then said nothing, there was no sound of disappointment or anything of the kind when he found it wasn't, then his strange behaviour outside Rosmerta's?

What I'm seeing here is a pattern that tells me that whatever Dumbledore drank, it was much more than just a poison of some kind. There is a conscious silence surrounding it.

A horcrux fits the need to AK Dumbledore, and fits the need to have a particularly powerful wizard drink it as well.

Icarus

[twistedrecesses.livejournal.com]

Wait, Dumbledore didn't know it wasn't the right Horcrux, he never got the chance to examine it.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

In real life it would be like that, but JKR doesn't throw away scenes. If it's been made to look unimportant (like Snape's cramped handwriting when writing his Owls turns out later to be a big clue to solving who the "half-blood Prince" is) it's almost always an important part of the jigsaw.

But there's no way to know the answer until she gives us another piece of the puzzle, and that won't be for another two years or so.

Icarus *muttering*