Book 5 Title Meanings
Sister Mary Lunatic
klaatu at primenet.com
Sat Oct 21 05:45:35 UTC 2000
No: HPFGUIDX 4253
I quote from the JKR interview entitled "Fire Storm"
(Entertainment Weekly, Sept 7, 2000) in which she says:
"...there are places in the world
that I've been planning for so long and
thinking about for so long that we haven't yet
explored, and it's great fun. That will happen
in book 5, too; we go into a whole new area,
physically, an area you've never seen before,
a magical world."
And now the working title of "Order of the Phoenix" suggests to me that
perhaps Harry is going to go somewhere ('a whole new area, physically... a
magical world'} to receive specialized training and perhaps be inducted into
a secret magical society. Perhaps his parents were members, as well as all
of Dumbledore's "old gang" -- a sort of "counterpart" to the Death Eaters.
This would lead to the explanations (finally!) of what his parents (and
others) were doing that made them a target for Voldemort.
Of course, the title may end up to be something completely different, just
to foil pirates and other unscrupulous people from making illegal copies or
merchandise ahead of time. What better way to expose counterfeiters than to
announce a title ahead of time and then change it at the last minute.
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