The Deathly Hollows

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No: HPFGUIDX 164573

> ereshkigal_doom:
> Sorry to be a smart-arse, but the book is entitled "The Deathly
> Hallows".  Does this invalidate your theory or am I just not
> following your argument somehow?
>
> A 'hallow' is a holy thing as in the line from the Lord's Prayer:
>
> "Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name ...."
>
> or "Halloween" (according to Wikipedia, this is the short form of
> All-hallow-even which means the eve before All Hallow's Day, more
> modernly known as All Saints Day which means the same thing.)
>
> So a hallowed thing is a thing that is holy.
>
>


I too have been wondering what or whom could the Halllows refer to.
The dictionary defines hallows not just as a saint, as in All Saint's
Day, but as a spirit.  JKR doesn't seem to put things in her books
lightly.  What seems to be a mere stray comment or some comic relief
(like Harry living with the Dursley's every summer, we find to be
very important in a later book.  Could the Hallows be the ghosts of
Hogwarts?  We know the school is protected by a great deal of magic.
Could they be a part of it?  I have to confess, the idea didn't take
full shape until I read that before Book #6 was published, Bloomsbury
took out a number of copyrights on book titles, one of which
was "Harry Pooter and the Hallows of Hogwarts."

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