*groans* Oh, I Was So Wrong!

im not going to lie but i thought the same way ron did i always tought he was bad
the only reason he protected harry was becuse of his dad saving his life before

I have an idea about the identity of the Half Blood Prince -- because I personally think that the obvoius reasons given in book 7 are just too neat and tidy.
I am, of course, drawing conclusions based on assumptions and guesswork, so I apologize if I get too far off the mark.
assuming the following are true:
1) Snape, as a child, grew up in a low-income family
2) Hogwarts routinely keeps a small stock of old, used textbooks, for underpriveledged students (and the occassional one who forgot their own)

and , of course, we know Snape's mother's maiden name was Prince...

That textbook could have been around long before Snape: it could have been Voldemort's originally. I say that because Volde seems quite happy to leave behind items from his past that might help him, or someone else, continue Salazar Slytherin's "noble work".

If we assume (it's a reach, I know) that that's all true, then the nickname of Half Blood Prince takes on more the role of a tradition. Volde started it by jotting down some curses and spells, Snape got the book and added to it, now Harry has it.
Any thoughts?

I always thought snape was still a bad guy but I never knew y dumbledore trusted him so much....I was highly shocked when he killed dumbledore though I couldnt believe it....but yeah like someone said b4 I did gain a little respect 4 malfoy because if the others wouldnt have come when they did malfoy might have actually turned...well good lolz

but as 4 snape....i really dont know wut to think of him now i mean is he good pretending to be bad? did him and dumbledore actually plan his death? was snape just closing his mind so well that even dumbledore couldnt get into his thoughts and see his true desires?

Oh dear, oh dear...I too was in complete shock, no matter how much I disliked Snape for the way he treated Harry, I thought he was on the good side. I must say though that I would not be surprised if ol' Serveus turns out to be truly a good guy.

I've never really liked snape... Ever since book one. Ever since I met the greasy [bum]. When Harry blasts his sorry [bum] all over the pavement in book seven, I'm going to drop the book, jump up and down cheering. I can hardly wait...

i'm really mad too, but in spinners end (chapter two) in hbp it tells you that snape is in with voldemort. but then i thought, well, he could be acting. but it didn't seem likely, so all in all i knew that he had to have a double agent role. but then, i didn't think he would be the halfblood prince. but now it's obvious, he's the potions master, and it was in a potions book, right? but there's one thing. his name would have been in the book but it wasn't, and snape is definitely not voldemorts age, so he couldn't have been at hogwarts fifty years ago. i guess the book was published fifty years ago, then! don't worry, i was as surprised as you were about snape being the hbp.