Titling convention significant?

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 89678

David wrote:

>  Perhaps Book 7 is 
> to be entitled 'Harry Potter and X Y' where X Y is the name of a 
> person 

Or the description of a person whose identity we learn as we read, as 
with Prisoner of Azkaban.  I know:  Harry Potter and the Nemesis of 
Voldemort!  Tee hee.

BTW, Hitomi, your argument is very sound and almost definitely 
correct.  I'm just working out a kink that's been bugging me for a 
while.  I also like making the occasional long-shot prediction 
because they pay off so much more generously.

David 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.
> 
> Any ideas?

The Bobbsey Twins?  <grin> <or do I mean shudder?>

Pippin wrote:

> 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.

Very true.  And we love it!

One doesn't need the "HP and the . . . " to carry off the genre 
series idea, but it does hammer it home.  Another thing we know about 
JKR and genres is that she likes to mix them up (children's, humor, 
mystery, fantasy, boarding-school . . . ) and also spoof them a bit 
as she goes.  Maybe what I perceive as going overboard is part of the 
spoof?

Amy Z