New Harry Potter Book Name Announced

[Gemini Cricket]

Click here if you wanna know. (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/12/21/books.pottertitle.ap/index.html)
:)

[LSPoorEeyorick]

I'm not that fond of the name. I hope the book's better!

[Gemini Cricket]

Me too.
:)

[Moonliner]

I'm sure once we read the story the name will make more sense but for now I say meh. A title should grab you. Of course she could call this one "Harry Potter plus some story stuff" and she'd still sell a bazillion copies.

[tracilicious]

I actually really like this title. I haven't ever liked a title of hers before until after some getting used to. I'm so excited for the book!

[sleepyjeff]

Count me as another who dislikes the title....then again I didn't like any of the titles save The Goblet of Fire very much until I was actually reading the books.

[Alex]

I can't say that I am enthralled by any of the titles (and I'm sure you'll all just think it is continued sourness on my part) but they are a little too formulaic for me Harry Potter and the Adjective Noun. Too Trixie Belden for my tastes.

But at least this one taught me a new word.

[Jughead P. Jones]

The one thing I'll say about the title...it opens up a plethora of possible outcomes...

[Alex]

The one I'm coming up with involves a large melon baller.

[RStar]

The one I'm coming up with involves a large melon baller.

Harry Potter and the Deadly Fruit Salad????

[Cadaverous Pallor]

"Harry Potter and the Impossibly High Expectation."

[lashbear]

"Harry Potter and the Lucrative Syndication"

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Harry Potter and It Wasn't Great To Begin With....

[Not Afraid]

"Harry Potter and The End (Finally)"

[€uroMeinke]

Heck - I got an email this morning asking me to reserve a copy NOW.

I've read the other's so I'm somewhat invested in the franchise, I just hope this one's better than the last and remains a single portable volume.

[Moonliner]

Interesting:

Here is the registration information for the domain name of the new book.

The Horcrux
Kaitlin Luther
23 Huluhulu Place
Kahului, Hawaii 96732
United States
Phone: +1.8082833122
Fax..:
Email: kaitlinluther@yahoo.com

Google earth shows that location as a house out in the burbs of Kahului. It would be fun to drop by if you were in the area... :)

[Sub la Goon]

I will wait to judge it by its cover.

[BarTopDancer]

"Harry Potter and the Impossibly High Expectation."

Best name ever :snap:

(and I must spread mojo before mojoing CP again)

[tracilicious]

("holy" or "holy night") the Oct. 31 Greater Sabbat, also called November Eve, the Celtic Samhain ("sow-en"); the beginning of the Celtic winter, and of the Celtic year; the beginning of the Witches' Year, when the Veil Between the Worlds grows thin and the spirits of the dead may return to Earth; the Descent of the Goddess to the Underworld; the final Harvest festival


Dumbledore and Sirius will return to help Harry fight!

[lashbear]

Dumbledore and Sirius will return to help Harry fight!

OOoooooo.... I like this !! Good sleuthing, all !

[Snowflake]

Well, not a great title, but I will be yet another one anxious to find out what happens in the end. And I hope it is a better book than the last two.

I suspect, at least, this will have even more Snape, which I will enjoy quite a lot in the final movie. Alan Rickman, sigh.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Dumbledore and Sirius will return to help Harry fight!Hmm, then isn't the title redundant?

[Alex]

Harry Potter and the Deadly Fruit Salad????

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hollows.


If deathly is used not to mean deathlike but to mean deadly and hallows is used as traci provides then it wouldn't necessarily be redundant (that is if it is a place where the dead cross back but also a place that can kill).

[Nephythys]

Hallows- not Hollows.

[Alex]

Yes, I know. But in my head hallows is close enough to hollows with is close enough for me to free associate my way to large melon ballers being used in a deathly way.

[Moonliner]

Dumbledore and Sirius will return to help Harry fight!

Did Dumbledore or Sirius help JK when she was an unemployed mother? Did they help her on all those long days she spent alone? I don't think so.

Harry must stand alone. I'll still bet anyone here that at the end the boy stands alone. Albus and Sirius will not be there.


However, I would like to clarify "alone". I don't mean that exactly literally. He'll have his friends to stand by him. What he will not have is a protector. No pulling the sword from the hat that arrives right on que. No protection from the mark placed by his dying mother. By the end of this book, little Harry will be all grown up and ready to kick some serious bad guy ass.

[tracilicious]

Harry must stand alone. I'll still bet anyone here that at the end the boy stands alone. Albus and Sirius will not be there.

You may be right in that he fights the final battle alone, but I'd bet my wand that they return in some form in part of the book to help him in his quest.

[Snowflake]

You may be right in that he fights the final battle alone, but I'd bet my wand that they return in some form in part of the book to help him in his quest.

No idea. JK has stated, repeatedly, when you're dead, you're dead. She's always been very clear she is not going to whitewash this aspect, characters will die. So, I'm not too sure that either of them will show up. Same for Sirius. So, until I read otherwise, I'm going to assume JK is telling the truth, for the record.

[Moonliner]

No idea. JK has stated, repeatedly, when you're dead, you're dead. She's always been very clear she is not going to whitewash this aspect, characters will die. So, I'm not too sure that either of them will show up. Same for Sirius. So, until I read otherwise, I'm going to assume JK is telling the truth, for the record.

Just for the record, IS Sirius dead? I thought he was sucked into some vortex or some such. Sounds like the proverbial trip over the waterfall when the body is never found.

I'm betting he will be back in time for a happy ending but not in time to help Harry.

[BarTopDancer]

Maybe they will come back a la Obi Wan, Anakin, Leia and Mufasa - in the stars.

[tracilicious]

No idea. JK has stated, repeatedly, when you're dead, you're dead. She's always been very clear she is not going to whitewash this aspect, characters will die. So, I'm not too sure that either of them will show up. Same for Sirius. So, until I read otherwise, I'm going to assume JK is telling the truth, for the record.


Harry's parents came back in some form to help him in GoF. There's no reason to think that Dumbledore and Sirius can't do the same, especially given the loads of phoenix references surrounding Dumbledore's death and Sirius's strange crossing over. We don't even know that Sirius is dead.

[Prudence]

Mufasa

Oooh! Do it again!

[Not Afraid]

I always say Mufasa in the same voice I say Masica.

[BarTopDancer]

Oooh! Do it again!

Mufasa

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Harry sure as hell better do SOMETHING alone in this book, seeing as how he a) cheats off Hermione in school and b) got help in his last two finale-of-the-book battles to the point that I thought "why the hell does he even have to be there?"

[Alex]

Harry sure as hell better do SOMETHING alone in this book, seeing as how he a) cheats off Hermione in school and b) got help in his last two finale-of-the-book battles to the point that I thought "why the hell does he even have to be there?"

That's been pretty much my entire criticism of the Harry Potter in all four of the movies so far. He's not active in his own life and gets a lot of glory for it.

[Nephythys]

Next year is going to be an interesting year for HP fans. A book and a movie to discuss and dissect!

[Strangler Lewis]

That's been pretty much my entire criticism of the Harry Potter in all four of the movies so far. He's not active in his own life and gets a lot of glory for it.

They kind of lost me early on when they said Harry was saved by the power of love, not his own untrained wizardly power.

Harry will stand alone, and Snape's killing of Dumbledore will be revealed to have been faked to allow him to grow.

I hope they don't have a big final battle. The OK Corral wand-fights at the end of the last two books have been exceedingly lame to read, and I don't think they'll come off better on screen. Plus, since she's kind of been in "War on Terror" mode for a while, it seems silly to say that Voldemort can be defeated. At most he can be pushed back for a while so that Hogwarts can reopen.

[Snowflake]

At least the publisher for the final volume.

News story here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/ap_en_ot/books_green_potter)

784 pages x 30% (post-consumer waste (pcw) fiber) = 235.2 pages if I'm doing my math correctly (not bloody likely since I'm not mathematically well endowed)