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

[ragdoll.livejournal.com]

Words that end in -ly are adverbs.

The title was on JKR's website in the locked room so I would think that's all the proof any of us would need. In any case both Scholastic and Bloomsbury have both updated their websites with the title as have all the major online book stores so I think this means it's carved in stone.

[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!)