With each Harry Potter book and movies there have popped up some puzzling  questions in many fans heads.  Jo Rowling has answered quite a few of these and continues to offer explanations or fixes to appease us.  Here are a few more brain teasers that have been swirling around in my brain.  In some cases I have offered reasons or solutions to my own queries.  Others are up for grabs to anyone, including Jo to answer... and since some of these questions have also been asked by mugglenet.com and hp-lexicon.org answers have already and , I'm sure, will continue to materialize.       

*    What is the Half-Blood Prince "prince" of?  Is he the future ruler of the UK?  Or another nation?  Maybe he is the future King of all wizards, witches and the magical realm?  And is he a good prince or a bad prince?  We already have an evil lord in the guise of Voldemort, and Harry is likened to the legendary Arthur.  So where does the mysterious half-blood ?future king? fit in?  And yet another question pops to mind:  since he is apparently not  a pure blood of  whatever his lineage descends from, can he ever truly be king?  Here's a thought -- maybe he is the prince of all half-bloods.   Hmmm, well maybe that is stretching it a bit. 

*    In OotP, how is it that Neville was able to touch and hold the glass orb containing Harry’s prophecy without going insane like Broderick Bode?  Perhaps the reason is because Neville could have been the child the prophecy was actually about?

*    In OotP, when Harry is brought before the Wizengamot, why doesn't Dumbledore suggest  to Fudge just give him Veritas serum to get the truth about the dementors?    And why doesn't Fudge think of this on his own?  My own answer to this is that Fudge really wants to get Harry out of the way as well as Dumbledore so he doesn't want to hear the truth.  And Umbridge would naturally veer away from using Veritas serum in this instance because she's the one who sent the dementors after Harry in the first place. 

*    In COS, Hermione, Colin Creevey and Justin Finch-Fletchly are all petrified.  Were their parents notified and wouldn't they have come to Howarts to see their children and talk to Dumbledore?  I imagine that maybe they did and we just didn't hear ab about it... but I'm surprized Harry and Ron wouldn't have seen Hermione's parents.  After all, in OotPwhen a disoriented Montague was finally found after Fred and George had stuffed down a girl's toilet, Harry saw his parents come to take him home.

*     Also in CoS, how is it that Professor McGonagall  knows that it is Ginny Weasley who has been taken  into the Chamber of Secrets.  Ginny's name is painted on the wall where it says, "Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever."  Was there another note just sent to McGonagall?  Did she see Ginny being taken?  How did she know?

*   Who has Mad-Eye Moody's other invisibility cloak... the one that Sturgeus Podmore was using when he was arrested for trying to break into the Department of Mysteries?  Since Sturgeus was under the influence of the Imperius Curse it could be that a death eater has the cloak... or maybe Fudge has it?  Since we can safely assume that Fudge will be high-tailing it out of the Ministry in HBP he might find it very handy to have an invisibility cloak.... just a guess.

*   Where did they take Barty Croutch Jr. after his soul had been sucked out by the dementors.  Did Fudge have him returned to Azkaban?  Or is he at St. Mungos?  Does St Mungos have private wards where visitors aren't allowed?  And can the body of a person who's soul has been sucked out be  possessed?

*  When Barty Croutch confessed under the influence of Veritaserum he said, in Snape's presence, that he stole the Gillyweed from Snape's office.  So Snape knows for a fact that Harry didn't do it.  So why doesn't he acknowledge this at least with a look to Harry?  Well, of course he also knows that Harry was out wandering around in his invisibility cloak that night so it's a mute point, I suppose.