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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