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Typos, links, and a touch of analysis; but there will be more shortly
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There are several things in this little scene that will prove important. This is the first time Slytherin's locket and the Peverell ring are seen. Both will be turned into [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Horcrux|Horcruxes]] by Voldemort, although it has not yet been explained in the story what Horcruxes are. We will learn in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows/Chapter 33|the next book]] about the ring's destruction and why it was necessary, and how Dumbledore's hand was injured. It will also be learned in the final book that the ring's stone is one of the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Deathly Hallows|Deathly Hallows]].
 
Harry chides Hermione for claiming that the Half-Blood Prince could be a girl. Although he is right that a royal female is a princess and not a prince, in this particular instance, Hermione was more accurate. It will be learned that the "prince" referred to here is not a royal title at all. Rather, it is someone's surname, and it could therefore have applied to either a male or female. Although Hermione is ultimately wrong that the book's previous owner was a female, nor does she realize yet it is someone's name, that surname did indeed belong to a woman. Hermione demonstrates that her logic is more abstract and intuitive than Harry's typical linear reasoning. Rowling is dropping a subtle clue here that readers should look beyond the seemingly obvious.
 
One would think that perhaps the Half-Blood Prince's identity could be learned from his handwriting. In a parallel case earlier, the writing on the notes that had been pinned to Harry's [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Invisibility Cloak|Invisibility Cloak]] was described as "narrow [and] loopy." The note which was used to tell Harry of the existence of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Grimmauld Place|Number 12, Grimmauld Place]] was a "narrow handwriting [that] was vaguely familiar." These two items later proved to have been written by Professor Dumbledore, as are a letter in "narrow, slanting handwriting" that Harry received [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 3|earlier in this book]], and the note Harry received [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince/Chapter 9|just now]], also in narrow, slanting handwriting, setting the time for Dumbledore's first private lesson. Harry recognizes the similarity here, even if we don't; and we can suppose that Dumbledore chose to make his writing more ornate and loopy on the occasion of his sending the Cloak as a gift. However, we are not granted this clue when dealing with the Half-Blood Prince. In [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix/Chapter 15|the previous book]], [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Snape]]'s grade on one of Harry's essays is described as a "large, spiky black 'D'," while the Half-Blood Prince's notations are described as "small, cramped writing." We do learn later that Snape was the Half-Blood Prince, though the handwriting does not bear this out. It is possible, of course that Snape's writing had changed over the years, or that he had adopted a different writing style to fit all his thoughts in the limited space afforded by margins; in any event, we don't learn of the connection via the writing style.