Hopes for Book 5

[Maria]

No: HPFGUIDX 59399


bboy_mn suggested the following possibilities:

It seems like we just talked about this recently.

The possibilties are -

The Command of the Phoenix

The Sequence of the Phoenix

The Fraternal Organization of the Phoenix.
As in a lodge or club...

The Honor Society of the Phoenix
As in awarded knighthood in the Order of the British Empire, or Order
of Merlin ...
Any that I missed?

However, we now have translations in two foreign languages that point
to fraternal organization or honor society. Anyone speak French,
Spanish, or German, who would like to add additional translations? Of
course, tranlation only has meaning if the language has separate
words
for the various meanings of the word 'order'.

Alos, It could be that translators just assumed that 
order=organization.


Maria (spanish speaker) adds:

I just did a quick search for Spanish Fan sites to see how the book
will be called in Spanish, and the title is "Harry Potter y la Orden
del Fenix". Now, spanish articles carry gender, and in this
particular example orden can have both masculine and femenine gender,
depending on the meaning.

Back to your possibilities, i'll specify the genter in spanish:

The Command of the Phoenix  -  femenine

The Sequence of the Phoenix  -  masculine

The Fraternal Organization of the Phoenix.  - femenine

The Honor Society of the Phoenix  -  femenine

Since the title is "la orden", femenine, we have three choices. But
at least we can reject the 'sequence' option.

However, as you said, it could have been the interpretation of the
translator. 

Ah! I just thought of another possibility, although in spanish it
would be masculine: How about 'order' as in 'era'? I mean, the new
order as a new period in time, after some historical event... it is
not as probable as the others, but well...

Maria


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