Title research? WAS Chalice of Fire (was GoF Leaks) offlist

Amy Z lupinesque at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 7 07:59:36 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 54884

I wondered:
 
> > Also, UUs know that that logo is called the flaming *chalice,* 
> but  wouldn't you have to walk into a church and hear people 
> talking about  it to discover that?  You wouldn't know it just by 
> seeing it on a  church sign. <<

Pippin responded:
 
> Probably a market researcher made the discovery and informed 
> JKR.  If you type "chalice" into Google, the first thing that pops 
up 
> is a link to "The History of the Flaming Chalice" at  the Unitarian 
> Universalist Website www.uua.org/chalice.html

Sorry, Pippin--you meant to send this offlist but I think it's quite 
relevant, and interesting.  You're right; authors do check to see if 
their chosen titles (or something close) appear anywhere else.  

I tried "Doomspell" to see if its incidence somewhere else might be a 
reason behind JKR's dropping the title Harry Potter and the Doomspell 
Tournament.  Having discovered that Doomspell is the name of a series 
kickoff by a Cliff McNish, I tried again:  +doomspell -rowling -
mcnish.  The first non-HP, non-McNish item that cropped up was a He-
Man comic:  Masters of the Universe Adventure Magazine (UK, Issue 
#13, 1989).  I wonder if that's what turned DT into GF?

Amy Z







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