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... Deathly Hallows.

JKR revealed it on her official website, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the official title of book seven.

Pretty lame, if You ask me. But then again, that's what I thought about the title HBP first as well.

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I wonder if it will always sound rubbish, as I want to say Deadly, not Deathly...

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Try it.

I tried to explain to a Hungarian friend what it might mean, but I failed. Deathly Saints? Deathly Hallowe'en? Isn't 'hallow' a verb?!

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It means Holy.

Hallowed ground etc.

Hallow'een takes its' name from old Scottish, Een meaning eve, the fact that it is the day before All Saints Day, the First of November, so it is the eve of the most Hallowed day.

I see. But that would mean that the title is Harry Potter and the adjective adjective, wouldn't it?

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Yes indeed, but Hallows could be nouned referring to areas of Holy ground, or perhaps angels of death.

Have you read any Charles Dickens young Waux? I think you would like that.

Not yet, but I really want to (and there's nothing to stop me, so it's simply a matter of being too lazy to look for the Dickens books we own or go to the bookshop and buy one). I trust Your judgement, Iain, which one should I read first?

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Well I had never read Martin Chuzzlewit, and recently saw a BBC production and thought it was brilliant.

But really all his books are good full of wonderful colourful characters. Oliver Twist is probably a good place to start.

Terribly exciting, of course, but much more vague than HBP. With HBP, you knew it refered to a person, at least. Who knows what 'deathly hallows' are?

It's the name of Harry's rock group.

It's what missing from the franchise...the HP Xmas rock album.

"So here it is, Merry Christmas...."

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A Christmas Carol is quite a seasonal and quick read. And I'm quite fond of The Pickwick Papers.

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Speaking of deathly hallows, Hermione sure's grown!

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That's exactly what I thought

Plus, tis like HBP, the only title without a genitive case (no of or 's), though quite what that's got to do with anything...
About 3 years ago she bought some domains or something called the Hallows of Hogwarts - so I'm guessing it'll be a place in Hogwarts.

Hmm, not the most inspiring - I'm sure we could come up with better.

Oh and Waux, you should read Dickens, he's the only classic author I'll read willingly; he's not as airy fairy as a lot of his contempories, and he has quite a dry black sense of humour.

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I'd agree with Gonz' on picking A Christmas Carol as a nice quick read to get the flavor of Dicken's writing. Everybody knows the story but the depth of description is superb.
My personal favourite is Tale of Two Cities.

By a startling coincidenece I picked up a copy of the 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol (called Scrooge) the other day. It is the one starring Alistair Sim and probably the best one (although I still have a sort spot for the Disney version!)

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And George Cole as the young Scrooge.

Later of course they were in this,



Which was created by Ronald Searle who of course later worked with Pink Floyd on the Wall, I love the way all the good stuff is interconnected.

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Actually the group Harry and the Potters has released a Christmas rock album featuring tunes by numerous wizard rock groups. It's worth a listen and a laugh.

As for this rather unfortunate book title...I suppose it could be worse ('Harry Potter and the Attack of the Clones' comes to mind), despite the fact that JK has apparently lost her tenuous hold on comprehensible grammar.

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...with Bob Hoskins who was in Balto with Kevin Bacon!


I am Gonz' and I claim my five pounds.

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YOWSA!



She could make me the happiest Muggle in the world...

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The girl knows how to wear a hat. Grrrrr!

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Wow. My friend actually worte a fanfic called Harry Potter and the Attack of the Clones. I'm not even joking...

I guess its not that origional, now I come to think of it.

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i love "the pickwick papers", too! it´s a bit unconventional, because the way it was written is clearly noticeable: first it starts as short, not very much connected stories of the exploits of the infamous pickwick club and their bumbling, clueless but very kind-hearted founder/chairman mr. pickwick (and i understand this was serialized in some newspaper). but gradually the characters develop more, a plot evolves, regular secondary characters drop in and suddenly we have something of a dickensian satirical epic. it´s absolutely charming, very funny, great characters (watch out for sam weller!) and, compared to his later, mostly serious novels, rather light-hearted. i´d love to see the characters come alive in a tv mini-series ...
"A tale of two city" is grandiose. just read the famous first lines ("it was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..."), and you´ll be sucked right in.
"oliver twist" - wow, what a horrible story!!! forget all the down-toned disney/musical version, i was absolutely stunned to discover the brutality of the original.
"great expectations" - great, but depressing.
i, personally, wouldn´t recommend starting out with "a christmas carol" - i like it, but i´d recommend starting with a realistic story, to get a taste for dickens wit and powers of satire and social critique before delving into this fairy tale (which struck me as a bit too sugary at times) ...

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A Tale of Two Cities is a little wordy (as most of Dickens' work is) but it is a very engaging read.

Book 7 is set to come out on July 21st, and is available for preorder at amazon (and other places).

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So long...etc.

Yippee.

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Me and a little strange have it completely planned out already! It's perfect timing - not doing exams, not at Space School, not on work experience...
Though it'll be weird... I've spent the last 8 years of my life reading Harry Potter.

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Deathly Hallows is supposed to be 784 pages long in the American printing. Apparently (due to our combination of larger type and the margin settings) that equates to about 700 in the UK.

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So long...etc.

Just about enough.

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I've never found Dickens to be to my tastes. I read a few things such as Pickwick Papers in a Victorian Humor and Satire class I took in college. It was definitely one of the low points of what was a pretty oxymoronic class to begin with.

As for Harry Potter, I'm sure the title will make sense once the book is read, and will be as good as any of the past titles.

And now for a totally gratuitous picture of Emma Watson:

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I distinctly remember an odd little fantasy where I met her at the mall and won her a stuffed animal out of a claw machine, and then she invited me back to England to star in a movie with her, and we were best friends until the end of our days.

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Amazing! I had exactly the same fantasy...except I was the claw machine.

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The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon"

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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I was once in a band called "Emma Watson and the Claw Machine."

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So...it will be a hulking collection of adverbs, double-standarding and jarring collisions of moral ambiguity and a childlike good-evil dichotomy?

Hooray!

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Cover illustrations released!

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Waux, you bloody tease, where are they?!

Ah, I know, I know... JFG it...

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Just go here and you'll see them all.

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So long...etc.

Ha! Beat you to it!

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Damn me and my trouble with linkifying =P

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So long...etc.

You ought to get that checked out!

Wouldn't want you walking around with a broken link...



I love bad jokes...

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I laughed for a solid minute at this, Tony. :-)

In other news, what the heck are Harry and Voldemort doing in a coliseum? More importantly, what are they looking at that's so crazy that neither of them
a) have their wands
b) are paying attention to the other?

If there's time-travel, AGAIN, so help me, I'll punch someone on the nose.

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