Interesting tidbit about future book titles

[mellienel2 at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25219

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rainy_lilac at y... wrote:
> I found this at http://www.hpgalleries.com:
> 
> Reader Michael Beckett has stumbled upon some very 
interesting 
> information in the UK. It seems Time Warner has been 
registering 
> trademarks for Harry Potter and in the process, registered 
what 
> appear to be new book titles. If you go to the UK Patent Office's 
> trademark search and type in "Harry Potter" you will come up 
with 3 
> very interesting marks - Harry Potter and the Alchemist's Cell, 
Harry 
> Potter and the Pyramids of Furmat, and Harry Potter and the 
Chariots 
> of Light. Ironically, these were all registered 4/26/2000 - J.K. 
> Rowling didn't let the title of her next book, "Order of the 
Phoenix" 
> slip until last October. So were these just a ruse to throw fans 
off 
> track? Or will two of these titles be used for books 6 and 7 ? 
> 
> 

This info was on another list -- HogwartsAdultSchool -- on April 
20, 2001. I thought it was a silly rumor then, for I couldn't find the 
source it quoted and it seemed so frivolous. But those names 
were trademarked on April 26. Either someone saw those 
names and tm'd them quickly (perhaps the old domain-stealing 
game), the rumor started because of the trademark, or it's a very 
suspicious set of coincidences.

m.