GoF Leaks

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 54539

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carrie S" <carrie525 at m...> 
wrote:
 
>    From: Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) 
>>   One was a little girl in a Washington DC suburb found a copy of 
>>   GoF on the shelf at her local bookshop and bought it more than a
>>   week  before the widely-known release date, and a newspaper 
>>   printed the  First Chapter allegedly shown to them by her. 
> 
>   But was this really the first chapter?? Does anyone remember? 

Yes, it was.

>   Back to Catlady: 
> 
>> An unknown person pseudonymously joined HPfGU to post that she 
>> works at Scholastic, knows about the upcoming book, and will burst
>> if she doesn't tell someone at least the hint that the title will 
>> be Harry Potter and the C-- of F--, please guess what that stands
>> for. Soon she unsubbed. I believe that was a Scholastic PR person 
>> doing their PR job... 

> I don't know, what does it stand for?? Is it um...not PG?  Anyway,
> I guess this one didn't pan out. 

There had long been a rumor that book 4 would be titled Harry Potter 
and the Doomspell Tournament. I believe that that was a true rumor, 
but JKR insisted on changing the title at the last moment, to make 
the rumor appear to have been wrong. I suspect that she chose the 
title AND THE CHALICE OF FIRE and that was what the above rumor 
monger was getting at, but having chosen the new title so quickly, 
it had not been vetted throughly, and she had to quickly change it 
again, to GOBLET OF FIRE, when she discovered that The Flaming 
Chalice is the logo of the Unitarian Universalist Association (a 
religion).