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.

Hmm, then isn't the title redundant?

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).

Hallows- not Hollows.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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