[the_old_crowd] That title

[silmariel]

On 1/21/07, mooseming <josturgess at ...> wrote:
>
> Hi all, I`ve been off line for a couple of months and therefore
> missed the festive fun filled announcement.
>
> The Deathly Hallows huh? Isn't that an oxymoron?
>
> Firstly I was surprised at the damp squibery of it all but then
> looking back at the futility of the HBP speculation perhaps not.
>
> So a person, place or thing that is deathlike…..
>
> Another name for HRX, I hope not.
> Harry's victim army, maybe, given there is a Scotish tradition that
> those born at Halloween have commanding powers over spirits and
> Harry was reborn (in a way) on Halloween this might have some legs.
> Godric's Hollow or beyond the vale, well it would be about time.



That's an option. The thing is, some of the ideas proposed explain the
words, but do not have the weight to be a tittle, they seem too... like
chapter tittles, but not integral to the whole book. That's why only a trip
behind the veil doesn't ring true as a tittle, nor only a visit to GH.

I was toying with inferi, victims of avada kedavra, victims of dementor
kiss. I don't know what happens to the souls of those not killed in an
ordinary fashion, but they are enough of them to be a little army.

It can't be a another name for Horcruxes, imo, but certainly, it looks like
it, and that would be integral to the plot. Following that reasoning, is
something closely tied to Hxs but not equals them. I'd bet for something we
are not yet told, something different, something we've already seen but not
recogniced, very in the style of JK.

I have the little theory that Deathly Hallows is the current state of some
souls, what is created at the same time of making a Hx, a subproduct, a kind
of mirror. Quasy dead but not exactly characters.

So, as an example, Mirtle, Binns and Lily (if Harry counts as a Hx) are DHs.
I like Mirtle because it ties nicely the surprising quantity of screen time
that particular ghost has had, and how useful it has been in books 2,4,6,
with her being first Voldemort's victim.

For Binns, well, I'm still betting in the teacher's room fireplace
dissapearing within book 2. Losing a fireplace between books I'd consider it
a flint or a stupid detail not to be taken into account, within the same
book, a quite small one, gets marked as 'unresolved issue'.

Good to see you back,

Silmariel

However, I'm opting for the lamenting cry of a frustrated fan, a
> deathly hallow to you all and a happy new year.
>
> Regards
>
> Jo
>
>


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