[HPforGrownups] Spoiler! Book Seven Title Thoughts

Fri Dec 22 12:07:47 UTC 2006

No: HPFGUIDX 163076

SPOILER!

I’ve read a fair amount of theories and, since I did not find some of the ones that came to me – which is slightly scary because it means that either no one thought of them or they are so far fetched everyone just tossed them – I decided to add my first two cents to the group.

  Angie wrote:
  <<The Deathly Hallows. When I read about the title, my first thought was, "Sounds a lot like Godric's Hollow." >>

  My first thought was along those lines as well, I thought, “It must be a place!” So I started to try and find out what the place could in fact be. I came up with a few possibilities and it will be a rather short list for organizational purposes only:

  - Godric’s Hollow: even though I don’t believe Rowling meant Godric’s Hollow to be the Deathly Hallows, she might’ve given us a clue there: same names, same type (as in both being a place);

  - At first I had thought about the locked room of the Department of Mysteries, but then, reading Angie’s post, it said:

  <<Or perhaps the place of the final confrontation -- the "real" name of the Department of Mysteries???>>

  And I thought it might be it since no one really knows what goes on in there and most things are deathly (or even deadly). Following the line of what-can-we-find-in-the-department-of-mysteries, I came across the veil. Remember Luna told Harry, in book 5, that they would see them (them being the people who had died) again? What if she didn’t mean after death, what if she really meant ‘one day they will come back to help us when we need it most?’ I know it’s far-fetched, but it got me thinking.

  - I also thought about the cave where the necklace/locket was hidden in. That was a sacred place for Voldemort and it did contain death (deathly things and deadly things as well), so, perhaps, Rowling is only refering to the places where Voldemort has hidden the horcruxes?

  Still thinking about things that are holy/sacred for Voldemort, Rowling could be speaking of the horcruxes. It's too simple and obvious (not to mention plain and slightly boring if that's it) but maybe that's her way of fooling us.

~*~ Violet ~*~
  "Who knows, maybe a lightening can strike."