{"id":1824,"date":"2006-12-21T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/12\/harry-potter-7-gets-a-title\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:53:00","slug":"harry-potter-7-gets-a-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2006\/12\/harry-potter-7-gets-a-title.html","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter 7 gets a title!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As countless websites have noted by now, the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter<\/a><\/i> series now has a title. You can play a game of hangman at author J.K. Rowling\u2019s website<\/a> to find out what the title is, or you can simply keep reading this post.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to play that game at Rowling\u2019s website, here is how you can find it, according to Variety<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n

If you go to her home page, click on the eraser and you will be taken to a room \u2014 you\u2019ll see a window, a door and a mirror.<\/p>\n

In the mirror, you\u2019ll see a hallway. Click on the farthest doorknob and look for the Christmas tree. Then click on the center of the door next to the mirror and a wreath appears. Then click on the top of the mirror and you\u2019ll see a garland.<\/p>\n

Look for a cobweb next to the door. Click on it, and it will disappear. Now, look at the chimes in the window. Click on the second chime to the right, and hold it down. The chime will turn into the key, which opens the door. Click on the wrapped gift behind the door, then click on it again and figure out the title yourself by playing a game of hangman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or, to learn the title, you can keep reading this post.<\/p>\n

Are you still there?<\/p>\n

Are you sure you don\u2019t want to play the game?<\/p>\n

Yeah, me neither. Life is too short.<\/p>\n

So here it is.<\/p>\n

The new book will be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/a><\/i> \u2014 which should keep the franchise\u2019s Christian fans speculating.<\/p>\n

FWIW, the word \u201cHallows\u201d here seems to be a noun, yet the online dictionaries I have checked \u2014 including Merriam-Webster<\/a> and American Heritage<\/a> \u2014 have it listed as a verb, only.<\/p>\n

Of course, in older forms of English, the noun \u201cHallows\u201d is another word for \u201cSaints\u201d \u2014 hence \u201cAll Hallows Eve\u201d, or what we now call \u201cHalloween\u201d, takes place the night before \u201cAll Saints Day<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

So \u2026 are there \u201csaints\u201d in the Harry Potter world? Does this title refer to \u201cdeathly saints\u201d \u2014 e.g., saints who are deadly, or saints who are already dead, or some such thing? Or is this a reference to some utterly, completely new invention of Rowling\u2019s?<\/p>\n

John Granger<\/a> had a theory that each title referred to the book\u2019s central metaphor for Christ, or something like that, but he proposed this theory after Book 4, and I don\u2019t know if the following books \u2014 especially Book 6 \u2014 have conformed to that theory. At any rate, I\u2019ll be curious to see whether Book 7 fits his thesis.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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