[HPforGrownups] Re: Book 7 Title

[Metylda]

No: HPFGUIDX 163070


--- lupinlore <rdoliver30 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- 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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> > 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.
> > 
> > 2.  Hallow means sacred or holy, so the place must
> be sacred in some
> > fashion.
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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."
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> 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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> 
> Lupinlore


bamf here:

I'm inclined to agree with Lupinlore and that the
Deathly Hallows are in reference to the Horcruxes.
Hallowed meaning sacred or holy, mayhaps even revered.
Voldie Mort holds his immortality in such esteem that
he divided his essence up.  

bamf



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