[HPforGrownups] Alternate Titles

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 171502

jelly92784 wrote:
> My sisters and I were discussing this the other night and I thought it 
> would be a fun topic for discussion here!
> 
> If you could rename each of the already published Harry Potter Books, 
> what would you call them?
> 
> Here's what we came up with:
> 
> SS:  Harry Potter and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
> CS:  Harry Potter and the Heir of Slytherin
> POA: Harry Potter and the Servant of Voldemort
> GOF: Harry Potter and the Triwizard Tournament
> OOP: Harry Potter and the Department of Mysteries
> HBP: Harry Potter and the Unbreakable Vow

Bart:
	But what is your goal in renaming them? How are the new names superior 
to the old names?

	I am NOT, by the way, being rhetorical. My main form of living is as a 
systems analyst, and there are three basic rules that I follow:

1) Don't try to solve the problem until you've defined it.
2) Don't alter the solution unless the alteration helps to solve the 
problem.
3) Don't break the rules unless you understand them.

	In this case, retitling the books assumes that there is a problem with 
the current titles. By rule #1, it's hard to come up with new titles 
unless we know what is wrong with the current titles.

	Bart