Halloween Release Speculation (Was:Re: Clue to Release of Book 7?)

[Cat McNulty]

No: HPFGUIDX 163296

Greetings All!
   
  The evidence for a Halloween release date is increasing. Yes there is the obvious: witches, wizards and all things super natural are associated with All Hallow's Eve. 
   
  Aside: I really would like for it to be 7/7/07 just because we all have been waiting such a long time and that date would really be numerically appropriate. However, because "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" movie release date is 7/13/07 I am sure that the various publicity people would not want to compete with each other. And in the past, movie premeires and book releases were always several months apart. Timing is of vital importance in the publicity business!
   
  Now, regardless of all the technical time evidence of: first draft...editing...translating ... printing, etc. it would be very felicitous for the date to be October 31st ... the day the adventure began and the day Harry became "The Boy Who Lived."
  Harry even talks about going back to Godric's Hollow at the end of HBP and starting his search for the other horcruxes in the place where it all began.
  The title "HP and the Deathly Hallows" does evoke images of the season: All Hallows Eve, Samhain, Halloween, All Saints Day, All Soul's Day and Day of the Dead. It is believed that the veil betweens worlds is thinner at this time of the year and it is easier, during this time for spirits to cross over to or communicate with the mundane plane of existence. 
   
  Perhaps Harry will get some advice from the Otherside during #7? Precedent has already been established for this. Example: Priori Incantatem in the graveyard with Cedric, Frank, Bertha, James and Lily each giving Harry advice. Dumbledore always was a formidible force on this plane, what makes us think that he wouldn't be just as formidable in the Otherworld and possibly come back to offer advice in time of need .... via his portrait, dream, materialization of some sort, etc.  
   
  Anyway, Samhain is the Celtic New Year. A time of death and rebirth. The death of the old and the birth of the new. The beginning of the Celtic day is/was sundown. All life begins in darkness (The womb, The earth, The egg, etc...) The year has come full circle and so has the adventure of Harry Potter. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is, afterall, The Beginning of the End.
   
  Cat >^-.-^<


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