The Deathly Hollows

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loves_the_lit:

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."



Snow:

You came to a similar conclusion as my husband, who upon hearing the 
name of the next book decided that Dumbledore died to join the 
Founders who were the sacred order and protectors of Hogwarts. 
Something I haven't given up on as an idea, but didn't connect as 
well as the ghosts from the wand, since we know very little of the 
Founders. 

We do know about the echoes from the wand in the graveyard that 
performed tasks of protection when they were said to be nothing more 
than a ghostly echo. 

I think it has always bothered me that Dumbledore seemed so 
determined that what Harry described, coming from the wand 
connection, were nothing more than a ghostly echo. 

I really like the ghostly echoes as the deathly hallows, although 
that would not mean that the Founders were not part of the elite 
group of the Deathly Hallows. 

Snow