Titling convention significant?

pippin_999 foxmoth at qnet.com
Sun Jan 25 16:27:30 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 89614

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:

> The other possibility is much simpler, that the titles are meant 
to  evoke some other literary series which used a similar 
formula.  The  trouble is, I can't think of any plausible ones.<

I think the idea is to evoke the idea of the genre series in 
general. JKR pulls off alot of her literary legerdemain by 
flourishing the cloak of pulp--Snape in Book One does everything 
but twirl his moustache. 

Pippin 






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