Book 7 Title

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No: HPFGUIDX 163010

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, elfundeb <elfundeb at ...> wrote:

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> If you're ready to speculate on the title's meaning, read on . . . .
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> After an initial stopped-dead-in-my-tracks 'huh', I'm ready to 
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> 1.  Hallows is used as a noun (although my dictionary does not do 
so), so it
> must be a person, place or thing.  I think it is a place.
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> 2.  Hallow means sacred or holy, so the place must be sacred in some
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A "hallow" can also be a physical object.  New Age movement versions 
of the Arthurian legend sometimes refer to various of the objects 
associated with Arthur (the Grail, Excalibur, etc) as "hallows."

A "deathly hallow" would be a holy or powerful object associated with 
death -- in other words, a horcrux.  Thus the title, I strongly 
suspect, simply reads "Harry Potter and the Horcruxes."


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