New Harry Potter Book Name Announced

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by Google definition of hallows

("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]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Dumbledore and Sirius will return to help Harry fight!

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

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Dumbledore and Sirius will return to help Harry fight!

Hmm, then isn't the title redundant?

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

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]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

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]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

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]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

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.

[tracilicious]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

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.