Question:
In Harry Potter what dose the half-blood prince mean?
Eileen
2009-07-22 00:13:00 UTC
I didn't read the book and the movie was no help.I know the half-blood prince is Snap....but that's it.
Fourteen answers:
Zhou
2009-07-22 00:16:43 UTC
Yes, Snape nicknamed himself the half-blood prince while he was in Hogwarts as a student.



Her mother was a pure blood and her last name was Prince. Snape's father was a muggle. Therefore, he nicknamed himself the half-blood prince to hide the connection with his father.
boten anna.
2009-07-25 04:52:26 UTC
Read the book, it's much better than the movie.



Snape was the Half-Blood Prince. He was a Half-Blood, and his mother's maiden name was Prince.



Snape was the author of the potions book that Harry used frequently, as well as a main focus of the entire story, so Half-Blood Prince was a good title that named the main component without giving away details.
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2009-07-22 08:46:52 UTC
Snape gave himself the alias of the Half-Blood Prince. The name comes from the fact that his mother's name was Aileen Prince--which means half his blood was "Prince," because it came from his mother, get it?



When Snape was in school, he was highly intelligent and spent a lot of his time making potions better and coming up with spells all by himself. Kids often give themselves cool nicknames, and that's what he did. At the back of his potions book, he wrote, "This book is property of the Half-Blood Prince."



In his potions book, he wrote all his new spells and curses, and he "corrected" the instructions on how to make potions. He found out how to make potions amazingly better than the book originally had them.



Then, Harry needs a book for his new potions class, and so he gets an old one from the closet, that Snape had left in the classroom, and it is Snape's--he uses all the hints Snape wrote in it, and he uses several curses that Snape created, as well (all the while, he had no idea who the Half-Blood Prince was).



The book was included to freak Harry out--when he found out Snape was the Half-Blood Prince (aka, Snape was the guy he had been taking advice from and had been admiring all year), he was forced to realize just how intelligent and powerful Snape really was.



I haven't seen the movie, by the way, just read the book. =D
Natasha
2009-07-22 07:24:09 UTC
The Half blood prince was a nickname the snape made up for himself when he was younger so no one knew it was him, his mother last name was Prince and a pure witch or what ever and his father was a muggle, Snape was a bit embarrassed about this and was teased a bit becuase of it so when he nicknamed himself the "half Blood" prince he saying he is a half blood and he is a prince ( as in from that family).
Twilight Is Fail
2009-07-22 08:07:46 UTC
I would normally say Read the book and you'll find out. but since other people is answering, its Snape that is the Half Blood Prince, His mother was a pure blooded Witch and his father was a muggle.
Rose x
2009-07-23 15:56:42 UTC
His mother was the pureblooded witch Eileen Prince, and his Father was the Muggle Tobias Snape. This made him a Half-blood as well as half a prince. Snape never really seemed to get on with his father, and he used it to hide his connection to him.



Rose x
TheGlassIsBothEmptyAndFull
2009-07-24 08:07:43 UTC
half blood means your a MIX of muggle (non-magic) blood and magic blood. so you can be 3/4 magic and 1/4 non-magic but you'd still be half blood.

snape had a witch mother and a muggle father which made him half-blood. his father was abusive so he was more proud of his mother's side of the family. his mother's maiden's name is "Prince" thus the Half Blood Prince
Roxanne OHalloran
2009-07-22 14:15:39 UTC
He's a half-blood and his mom's last name is Prince
Ada M
2009-07-22 07:21:29 UTC
That was his nick-name.

In the book we hear a lot about the half blood prince, in the movie we hear almost nothing, in the book it is obviose this is the main plot of it, in the movie not so much.
Vegetarian Flautist
2009-07-24 11:13:27 UTC
You need to read the book. Movie doesn't do it justice by half
2009-07-22 07:18:22 UTC
OKAY IN THE MOVIE SNAPE FRICKIN SAYS THAT HE IS THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE!!!!



FYI HIS NAME ISN'T SNAP!!!! ITS SNAPE WITH AN "E"



in the book he says to harry that he is the half blood prince and hermione finds out that his mom's maiden name is Prince and his father was a muggle born.



READ THE FRIGGIN BOOK
2009-07-22 23:29:56 UTC
i don't understand how you could have seen the movie and still not know..

the books are very easy and very entertaining- you should check them out!

happy reading
Kevin
2009-07-22 07:16:54 UTC
it means he's half muggle and half wizard and he just thinks he's cool so that's why he adds prince to it.
Scott
2009-07-22 07:17:41 UTC
he is not a pure-bread or whatever, his mom and dad were two different kinds of people.


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