Sooooo...New Title

[meddow]

I’m suspicious.

This probably sounds incredibly stupid and most likely is. But…

It doesn’t feel right, not when compared to the titles of previous books. There's never been an adjective before. It wasn’t Harry Potter and the Terribly Secret Chamber.

Have we got confirmation from the publishers? Or JKR? All the reports I've come across are only going by the website.

ETA: Okay, so it's use has been pretty widespread and there's been usuage by the publishers.

Still it just doesn’t seem to match the pattern. Maybe I just want to find fault because I don't particularly like it.

Not that I can speak. Some of my fics have truly awful titles.

EATA: Adverb? Adjective? All I know it is ain't a noun, that I suck and that my various English teachers should be fired.

Comments

[snorkackcatcher]

Oh dear. I seem to be in the minority who actually quite like it ... it conveys a suitably doom-laden theme (after the ending of HBP it wasn't really going to be "HP and the Fluffy Slippers"), and probably simply refers to the Horcruxes or their locations? (And again, as I've said elsewhere, she may have gone for a phrase that wasn't used elsewhere, hence the slightly odd sound. "Deathly Hallows" was a no-result on Google yesterday when I tried it. Juts tried again in fact and it still is, although I bet that doesn't last long!)

[meddow.livejournal.com]

Power is with the minority on this one though. You've got JKR in your corner.

While I do think there should be a feeling to doom, I think it may be a bit too heavy handed with the doom. It’s the whole “death” part. On the scale of doom, you really can’t go much further than death (other than Harry Potter and the Apolcalyptic Hallows). Maybe if it was tones back a bit I wouldn’t have such a reaction against it (Harry Potter and the Risky Hallows, the Slightly Dodgy Hallows, the Remote Possibility of a Minor Injury Hallows)

Though I’ve had a day to think about it now and realised that I was never going to get what I wanted from the title. I wanted something that would both stir up excitement and mystery and nicely round off the whole series, which may be asking for a bit much of a few words. I was always going to be disappointed.

Still, it doesn’t roll of the tongue very easily, which I think it will always have acting against it. All my above made up titles are silly, but they are easier to say out loud.

[snorkackcatcher]

Harry Potter and the Risky Hallows, the Slightly Dodgy Hallows, the Remote Possibility of a Minor Injury Hallows

*snicker*