Chapter 407: Absurd Speculation

On Sunday night, when Harry finished Quidditch training and soaked in the bath with sweat, his thoughts gradually detached from various hitting tactics, and he remembered that he still needed to find Ma Erfu to make an appointment for Luo Nade.

Harry finished his bath in a hurry and rushed to the secret base of Torchwood. He was almost half an hour late. Just as he was about to break the phantom wall and walk into the venue, he heard a sharp female voice, it was Jin Ni: "You've had enough, everyone knows Harry is the prince, we are just watching the fun."

Intuition told Harry that if he entered the door at this moment, he wouldn't be able to hear more explosive content. So he sat along the wall, put on the Invisibility Cloak, and put a Rita's eavesdropping spell on his ears. After doing this set, he still blamed himself, why was he so proficient in doing this kind of thing?

Soon, Cui Ge's voice attracted his attention again. "Don't believe it, I spent a thousand hours collecting evidence, completely Sherlock Holmes-style logical deduction, and finally solved the deepest narrative trick buried in the rumors, proving that Snape is the Half-Blood Prince!"

"First, let's talk about the origin of the Half-Blood Prince, that Potions textbook. Who would write their nickname on a Potions textbook? Naming a thing with a nickname means that this thing is a person's masterpiece, so who is the modern Potions master? We can say there is only—"

"Everyone knows that textbook was taken by Hermione from Luo Nade's hand," Jin Ni retorted unceremoniously. "You can't say Snape would give his textbook to Luo Nade!"

"But Snape could give his textbook to Harry..."

"But Snape wouldn't give the textbook to Harry," Pan Xi also joined the rebuttal. "We all know that in Potions class, the level Harry showed was far beyond the textbook. He didn't need it at all. You can't say Snape just gave him an old textbook as a souvenir!"

"Then let's talk about the Levicorpus spell. According to my investigation and research, the actual inventor of this spell is Severus Snape. When he was in school—"

"Yes, but the person who used this spell best was James Potter," Jin Ni interrupted Cui Ge's reasoning sharply again. "Some people in the same grade as them said that this spell was very popular twenty years ago, and Harry's father was the most proficient one, which just shows that he has this talent."

"Then how do you explain the Sectumsempra spell? You know—"

"Objectively speaking, that is just an ordinary off-beat curse," this time it was Pan Xi who interrupted him. "It was Potter who first used it in the Triwizard Tournament, which made it enter everyone's field of vision. You know there was no talk of a prince at that time."

"Assuming these are all reasonable, but the most important point is that Harry has no royal status, whereas Snape's mother—" having been interrupted continuously, Cui Ge's tone began to become powerless.

"This is the real narrative trick, and I have finally completely dismantled the image of the prince and the meaning behind it," Yifu used a confident tone to interrupt Cui Ge for the last time. "The so-called Half-Blood Prince, one hundred percent, is Harry Potter."

"We skip the factual evidence in front and go straight to the conclusion. The title of Half-Blood Prince was not taken by Harry Potter himself, but was forcibly imposed on him by Hermione—after identifying this point, everything becomes clear."

"First, why did Hermione want to give Harry a nickname? The answer is clear. She has a crush on Harry, but is worried about being targeted and retaliated against by the narrow-minded Zhang Qiu, so she made up this prince statement, and the result became more and more intense," Yifu added in a decisive tone. "Before continuing to tell my reasoning, I will first answer this most curious question for you: Where did the prince's title come from, and why is it a half-blood rather than a pure-blood prince?"

"From where to claim the king, the reason for being king, this is Hermione's first layer of cover-up. If you are still guessing the prince's bloodline because of the historical inertia of Britain, then you will only get further and further away from the truth. Hermione, who is well-versed in the history of various countries in the Muggle World, she glimpsed the logic behind power. The claim of the king comes from power—we also know that Deng Buliduo was once called the uncrowned king of the wizarding world. Then may I ask what bloodline this king needs? No need, right? Then for Harry, who is the designated successor of Deng Buliduo and whose magic power is already comparable to the old king, does he have the qualification to be king?"

"Very good line of thinking, I thought I could add a point," Pan Xi interjected. "The Dark Lord is also a king, he has no royal bloodline, but everyone has no opinion—and Harry has defeated the Dark Lord."

"Who said the Dark Lord has no royal bloodline?" Yifu's tone carried a trace of cunning. "Since you mentioned it, then I will dismantle the word half-blood for you. Half-blood, whose blood is mixed?"

"If we start from the angle of power as king, anyone who is enough to suppress an era in the wizarding world can be called a king, then the most widely known is Merlin, followed by the four founders of our academy. From this layer, the bloodline of Slytherin can also be royal bloodline."

"But Harry not only has the bloodline of Slytherin, because the husband of the orphan daughter of Salazar Slytherin was named Cadmus Peverell, from the Peverell family who once made the Deathly Hallows—and the Deathly Hallows were the foundation for another Dark Lord, Gellert Grindelwald, to claim the king."

"Possessing two noble bloodlines, the ordinary term 'prince' is insufficient to characterize this, which is why Hermione drafted it as 'Half-Blood Prince.' This 'half-blood' does not refer to a mix of royalty and commoner, but a mix of king and king—a fusion of the essential nature of two generations of Dark Lords, each a king in their own right."

"Of course, some people will ask at this time, then why call it Half-Blood Prince instead of Half-Blood King? There are two reasons. One is because of Deng Buliduo. If you adopt the title of White King given to him by some people, it is three qualities of being king gathered in his body. Prince is to represent the White King legal system he inherited from Deng Buliduo."

"The second reason is to return to the original intention of Hermione fabricating the Half-Blood Prince. Fabricating this character and using so many narrative tricks, the true purpose is to express her love for Harry under Zhang Qiu's nose. Then prince is more in line with young girls' sexual fantasies than king. This is why the concept of Half-Blood Prince spread rapidly among the girls' group, because this is a character fabricated by Hermione to satisfy her own fantasies, using Harry as a blueprint. Harry was a hero in his youth, coupled with Hermione's fantasy embellishment, it is not surprising that the Half-Blood Prince is so popular."

"Then according to this, the so-called Levicorpus or Sectumsempra are all Hermione seeing Harry use this spell first, and then fabricating it as the prince's invention, which is an inverted relationship," Jin Ni added. "She did this, perhaps also hoping to see Zhang Qiu's hair explode after discovering the truth one day."

"Yes, even the line on the Potions textbook, perhaps it was written by Hermione herself," Yifu said. "Harry doesn't have old textbooks. He buys brand-new textbooks every year according to the book list. And Harry is not very good at round script, but Hermione has practiced round script calligraphy."

"So the textbook is probably Luo Nade's," Jin Ni took over. "Fred and George gave him a big box of old textbooks. He probably didn't notice that there was a Potions textbook in it, so he bought an extra one when buying books. And Fred and George, you all know, they would use textbooks to pad the table corners, but would never write even a word on them, so they let Hermione whitewash it."

"I surrender," Cui Ge said powerlessly. "You are right, I actually can't explain Hermione's attitude problem, and the circulation process of the textbook."

"Then the situation is probably like this, or we may have also cracked the reason why Snape is so popular," Lu Na said lightly. "If decades later, someone goes to interview those girls who have fantasized about the Half-Blood Prince, and they all realize that the prototype of the Half-Blood Prince is Harry, and coincidentally Harry is a big shot at that time, they will definitely say something like 'I had a crush on Harry back then'."

"So we will continue to watch the fun, see when Zhang Qiu will discover this matter, and what she is prepared to do to respond," Jin Ni said gloatingly.

"The whole reasoning and conclusion are indeed well-founded and convincing," Ma Erfu applauded and agreed. "However, from the perspective of deconstructionism, the concept of Half-Blood Prince has been running wildly in the direction away from Harry after being mixed with Hermione's fantasies. Now the Half-Blood Prince pursued by people has become a sexual fantasy object shared by girls. For the current Hermione, perhaps even Harry Potter himself cannot compare to the so-called Half-Blood Prince."

"There is an old saying in Tianchao, even the white moonlight himself cannot compare to her in memory. If you hope to see Zhang Qiu's joke, I am afraid it is impossible, because she must understand this truth. The more Hermione fabricates the story of the Half-Blood Prince, the less likely she is to fall in love with Harry Potter himself."

Ma Erfu finally gave such a seemingly objective and quite rational conclusion, but Harry could still hear the sourness in his tone.

When the topic began to turn to Christmas and the dance, Harry felt that it was about time, so he broke the phantom wall, pretended that he hadn't heard anything, and walked into the crowd calmly.

"Sorry, I fell asleep while taking a bath, I came a bit late, didn't miss anything interesting, right?" he asked hypocritically.

"No, we have been talking about those lovers of the old bat," several people said in unison. ===== CHAPTER 408 =====