Which Halloween? (was Re: My thoughts on the title)

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 163289

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
> 
> Still doesn't sound that clear when I try to explain it.
> So, it is either going to be Halloweed two months from 
> the beginning of the current school year, or it is going
> to be 14 months after the beginning of the current 
> school year. Will the books break the mold and span a
> time of more than one year? 
> 

Well, the first book covered far more than one year so there
is no real mold to break. Having the last one span more than 
a year would just be symmetry. In fact if the last book does 
include that epilogue we've been promised it *will* span more 
than a year. I think that having the deathly hallows refer to 
the two Halloween confrontations between LV and Harry,
the first and the final, would be a nice symmetry. I have
to consider it one strong, perhaps the leading, possibility. 
It certainly is not the only attractive possibility though. So
I don't see any reason why the story line of DH could not
span two Halloweens.

For that matter I think a very powerful book 7 could be written 
with the final confrontation coming on the Halloween just a few 
months after the close of HBP. LOTR goes on for some length 
after the fall of Sauron and that section of the work is by far the 
most moving for me. The rest of the book is needed to explain 
why the reader should be so moved by it. The HP story could be 
nicely concluded with such an early end for LV but that does not 
seem to be Rowling's style so I don't expect it. I'd almost say 
that this series could really use the time for retrospection that
an early demise of the DE could give it. It is likely to be short
changed if the action continues like an action/adventure movie 
up to the second to last chapter but that is what I expect.

Ken