Draco/Evil - trademarked titles - Birtha Jorkins - other stuff

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 25238

Tillrules wrote:

> In the other hand, in the midst of an ongoing
> series of accidents, Draco hopes that Hermione 
> will be next, purely due to her "mudblood" status.

NOT *purely* due to her "mudblood" status -- Draco would hate Hermione
even if she were a pureblood, because he considers it to be her fault
that her e.g. 112% in Charms causes his father to berate him for not
having done as well.

Tillrules wrote:

> We do not know that he was the type of 
> child Draco is, kind of the kid who drowns
> puppies & cats to see them squirm.

Draco doesn't drown kitten and puppies to see them squirm, he does it to
try to prove to his father that he isn't soft.

Suzanne wrote:

> 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 

I heard the Pyramids of Furmat rumor a while ago, maybe at HPgalleries?
I do hope it is about Egypt and not about Fermat's Theorem.

IIRC, when JKR revealed the title OotP, she said she had been trying to
decide between two titles and suddenly decided just in order to answer a
little boy with big beautiful eyes. If Order of the Phoenix had been
among those trademarks, one of the others could have been the other
title she was considering. Where did I read that the working title of
CoS was HP and the Halfblood Prince, but she changed it later because
that turned out not to be what it was about. Which left me wondering
whether the 'prince' was Riddle or Potter?

blue eyed tigress wrote:

>  Were the powers of evil using poor Bertha as
> a magically-augmented incubator? 

Meow!
Now that you mention it, it seems likely.
I long ago worked out an idea where a woman joined the Dark Side in
exchange for being made beautiful by Voldemort's magic, and in it she
had to conceive and carry her new body (rather than birthing it, she was
turned inside out, which was *extremely* painful).

Bringing some OT back to the main list just because I have room in this
email:

Ali Wildgoose mentioned that Philip Pullman had written a book named "I
Was a Rat", so I wondered if it was about Pettigrew.

Saitaina mentioned that her mother's address is in Riddle, Oregon, and I
wondered whether that town was related to Tom Riddle.

IN RE CHILDREN'S BOOKS:

In the course of this argument, some people seem to have expressed the
opinion that any book about children is a children's book and any book
about adults is an adult book. I am sure there are a number of
children's books about adults, altho' the first that came to mind were
simplified history, such as the famous voyages of Columbus. 

Finally I thought of an example which is a novel: THE HOBBIT. Tolkien
intended it for children when he wrote it, and I don't recall any child
among the characters. 

Someone in this argument said listed "Tolkien" as a children's book(s),
and surely they didn't mean LORD OF THE RINGS. LOTR was written with the
intention of being an adult book, it was marketted as an adult book, and
the style is quite different from that of THE HOBBIT.
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