Comments | cabell: um, excuse me?

cabell

um, excuse me?

Dec 21, 2006 13:09

Okay, so the newly announced title of the seventh and final Harry Potter tome makes no sense.

( cut for spoilers, although frankly I think not wanting to know the title is a little crazed, but you know, I respect your lifestyle choices )

nitpicking, harry potter, fandom

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piefessor December 21 2006, 20:39:37 UTC

A hallow is a sacred relic.

cabell December 21 2006, 20:54:36 UTC

aHA. That's a bit better, especially with the built-in ties to Arthurian legend. I wasn't at all keen on her just deciding to make it a noun because she said so. :p

However, now I am a little irritated with the use of "deathly," which seems subtly the wrong connotation to me. But I am bitchy.

piefessor December 21 2006, 21:13:07 UTC

Yeah, one of the other registered titles was "Harry Potter and the Hallows of Hogwarts" which I like much better. Alliteration! Hogwarts!

kicking_k December 21 2006, 21:15:49 UTC

I didn't like it either.

However, I've been a bit take-it-or-leave-it about the series since "Order of the Phoenix". Too much misery, not enough fun.

And I have an objection to the Spiderman Break-up. You know, "I'm too dangerous to know, so we can't go out any more." If I were Ginny, I wouldn't put up with that...

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frenchpony December 21 2006, 21:27:44 UTC

Definitely not her best title. Counting "Philosopher's Stone" and "Sorcerer's Stone" as two separate titles, I'd say it ranks eighth out of eight in the total Harry Potter title department.

Personally, I favor the simple, classic, Harry Potter and the Horse He Rode In On, but then, I'm not richer than the Queen, so what do I know?

carlamlee December 21 2006, 22:04:23 UTC

I've seen all the comments below answering how it's a noun, but I wanted to add that I still don't like the title. It reads awkward to me (I think it's the "deathly" which does it), gothy, and without any sort of punch. I'm not a fan, and I don't think I will be even after reading it. Boo.

Drama, drama, drama.

moiety_tx December 21 2006, 22:06:09 UTC

I'm figuring 'deathly hallows' pretty much has to be the remaining horcruxes. (Horcruces? something like that). The ones we've seen so far are powerful, mystical, and very dangerous objects.

Or, you know, it could be referring to Mundungus Fletcher's toenail fungus.

foomanchoo December 22 2006, 02:48:03 UTC

I don't care what it's called unless it's "Harry Potter and the resurrection of Dumbledore who is clearly the best character who isn't a phoenix or a dragon".