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[cleolinda]

Wall Street Concerns for Potter Seven in 2007. Speaking of which, we now have a title. Warning: if you want to figure it out yourself, scroll down one line at a time until you get to #10, the last instruction. The answer is about a line after that, so be careful.

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[alexthedevil.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a fan of the title. Who knows, it may grow on me, but I don't like it at the moment.

[gaminette.livejournal.com]

Seconded. It's a bit contradictory, isn't it? O_o

[alexthedevil.livejournal.com]

It also makes me think of a kids book. Not in the way that HP is targetted at young audiences in a sense, but more the books aimed at 5-7 year olds. "What adventure will Harry go on in this book, kiddies?!"

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not "Attack of the Clones," but it's easily the worst of the seven.

I was kinda getting attached to "Potter Seven" myself. That'd be kinda neat, if JKR got all minimalist suddenly.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Kind of like Lemony Snicket with "The End"?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Or "Pötterdämmerung" or "HP7" or something completely breaking with convention. That'd be scary. And have the whole style of the book minimalist, like Hemingway or Beckett. God, that'd be no end of baffling, wouldn't it? Tears, across the world, a never-ending river of tears.

And I added the key words from the new title to the Harry Potter Title Generator (http://tech.jmc.ksu.edu/phpnonsense/phpnonsense.php?template=harrypotter). It's now possible to get the new title, albeit mathematically unlikely (let's see... a .0149% chance, all told).

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

I got Harry Potter and the Flute of Darkness.

So much better.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

And we'd drown in fanfic with Ginny exclaiming "This one time, at band camp...."

[rewil.livejournal.com]

And then the movie would be promoted with the name "P7." ... And the urology jokes would make it all worth it, really.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Do I want to see Daniel Radcliffe doing public service announcements for routine prostate checks? No. But I'm sure there's an LJ community dedicated to those who do.

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

Rule 34. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rule+34)

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

PLEASE don't invoke Rule 34! I've seen it done before in an open forum and it's not pretty... *shudders* Let's just say they don't miss a character...

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Is this related to the idea that if you speak it aloud (or put it in print), you have thereby caused it to exist?

[jennnk.livejournal.com]

if it exists, there is porn related to it

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

and where might I find these rules?

[jennnk.livejournal.com]

not sure where the rest are, but I learned that one from the link up there *points*, which leads to urban dictionary.

[redcoast.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the title "Attack of the Clones." Under-appreciated irony ftw!

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

i have to say, i like it. it's mysterious. i could go without the adverb, but whatever.

[jldecker.livejournal.com]

"Deathly Hallows" = Godric's Hallow, where Harry says he's going at the end of HBP.

//points to icon//

//smirks//

[stepliana.livejournal.com]

hallows is plural.

[jldecker.livejournal.com]

Just being cheeky, yo.

^-^

[mindset]

That's Hollow. :D

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we're actually dealing with Godric's Hollow vs. "hallows" here. Should be interesting.

[gilmorje.livejournal.com]

Bloomsbury have confirmed... Time to start building those reading bunkers! Wish mine was already finished, so I could avoid the fallout when my sister hears the title*.

Her reaction: "The what..???? The what????? HP and the... the WHAT????"

*I'm trying to teach her the true meaning of Christmas which is NOT spoiling on me, little miss i-read-faster-than-you so have to tell who dies at 3am when OotP AND HBP come out. So yes I will tell her, because that's the sort of petty vindictive person I am. Plus I want to see her face when I utter the d-word^. he he he

^see! yam totally spoiler conscious in real life!

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Noooo...nothing ominous about that title at all

Really it doesn't roll off the tongue very well, does it? I say it and think "that doesn't sound quite right".

[thatpalechick.livejournal.com]

The title seems kind of...I don't know, is generic the right word? It just seems out of place on a Harry Potter book.

[br0k3nsoul.livejournal.com]

It just looks like the typo to end all typos to me. If I just randomly came across that in a chatroom I'd think, "Huh. I wonder what that was supposed to mean."

[patchie04.livejournal.com]

Watch, in another few weeks, after all the publicists and editors have read all the negative feedback, someone will go "jk y'all!" and change it.


I hope.

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

They didn't do that the last time, what makes you think they'll do it this time? I remember the fallout from the title was just the same if not worse two years ago and nothing changed. I guess people need to have something to talk about till they get angry at what is actually written in the book. XD

didn't take long

[riney.livejournal.com]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/12/21/books.pottertitle.ap/index.html

Re: didn't take long

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

"J.K. Rowling says she recently had a dream where she was both Harry Potter and the narrator."

Oh, CNN. You have too much free time.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Hm. A hallow (noun) is a saint. So these are saints that are...deathly? Maybe Rowling is going to go Indiana Jones on us and have beautiful saints that suddenly turn into death's heads and suck off all your skin? Or maybe a Hallow is a new creature that's the opposite of a Dementor?

[lumaria.livejournal.com]

Not a fan of the name, but you know. JKR doesn't write it for me, though the last book sort of felt like she did. :)

[shannonsequitur.livejournal.com]

I was rather partial to "Harry Potter and the End of the Internet", but whatever.

[thegeneralerin.livejournal.com]

haaaaha. love the icon

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Hallows or Hollows? Yahoo says Hollows, which makes the whole thing entirely different (although still ungrammatical -- I think she might have been channelling Lemony Snicket and/or JRR Tolkien).

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

CNN and, apparently, Rowling's official site say Hallows.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I did the obstacle course on her site, and it does say Hallows.

[confusedmuchly.livejournal.com]

Good. If it were the Deathly Hollows, it would be much worse. I first read that version and thought to myself, "Does... does Harry battle anorexia in this book?"

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

HEEE.

[trede.livejournal.com]

http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/arthuriana2z/h.htm#HAL

Hallows seem also to be magical items in Anglo-Saxon legend, and they echo strongly of horcrux. Any thoughts?

[promise19.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link! Hallows being objects makes the most sense.

[ellaafleck.livejournal.com]

Not too much of a fan. As I said somewhere else, the previous titles made me think "Oooo wonder what that means!" where as this one read "Harry Potter and the Dangerous Stuff." The book itself should be good, though, the title's don't effect that. Now give us a release date, please.

[bway-3xthelove.livejournal.com]

Okay so I personally think this title is extremely irritating as per grammar purposes, but the title itself....

well. I'm sure it will relate to something in the book, but I think it's going to be misleading for a lot of people and the intranet rumors will start flying ASAP.

Does anyone know what the word "Hallows" is actually referring to? It's an old Arthurian legend. http://www.mystical-www.co.uk/arthuriana2z/h.htm#HAL There's a site if you want to check it out. It's a really interesting topic! I know Jo has knowledge of this, so here's my theory, which probably matches everyone else's theories: the title, the book, and the outcome have to do with the Horcruxes. So sit back until you read the book lol

[bway-3xthelove.livejournal.com]

ooooh. wait! Possibility of it having something to do with the four founders of the school? maybe items belonging to them or something. I don't know...

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

Well, my mom OED'd the word hallow, and we got the saint bit, but it's also a loud shout in hunting or something like that.

So, the deatch cry of HP? of the internet? LOL