Titling convention significant?
smaragdina5
smaragdina5 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 24 22:41:44 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 89563
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amy Z" <lupinesque at y...> wrote:
> once in a while, when someone here deems that a
> theory mistakenly puts another character besides Harry at the
center
> of the series, he/she will bolster his/her argument by pointing
> out, "There's a reason the books are called "Harry Potter and
the...'"
>
> Well, what if that's all a huge setup for the big surprise in Book
> Seven: that Harry is not after all the center of the series? That
> the whole story has been about the development of that other July-
> born son of Order parents?
I've been wondering about this since reading Mark Twain's _The
Tragedy of Puddin'head Wilson_ the other night, as it was cited as
a 'two' clue from JKR by Galadriel Waters in her latest _New Clues to
HP5 book._ In the story, two boys, TOM and CHAMBER, are born on the
same day, and after some months, switched and grow up with everyone
thinking that one is the heir and brought up that way, and the other
lowly, until one day when they are grown and the secret is revealed.
(There is also a tie-in with T.S. Eliot's poem about the murder of
Thomas Becket, because the Tom in this story is named Thomas Becket
as his first and middle names, and this second clue is referenced
later with mention of the cathedral club where Stubby Boardman was
hit in the ear 15 years ago with a turnip (dual meaning: watch).)
It gets complicated thinking all this. You can look these works up
on the web if curious...
Betta smaragdina
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