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Dec 21, 2006 17:41

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, huh?

So, we talking graveyards here?

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jaster December 21 2006, 21:40:40 UTC
I'm tellin' you, he's gonna die.

He might continue his mission as a ghost, succeed, and get reincarnated or something, though.

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boh_doh_dee_oh December 22 2006, 17:13:18 UTC
i agree. i think he's gonna have to sacrifice himself in order for voldie to be killed finally.

someone suggested to me that harry might be one of voldie's horcruxes and that in order for the big V to finally kick it, all of the horcruxes have to be destroyed......

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queencaeledra December 22 2006, 20:19:36 UTC
I don't think reincarnation is exactly canon, she says in her best nerdy voice.

And I doubt the ghost bit, because it's been established in the books that ghosts are people who are afraid of death, or what comes after it, and Harry isn't.

1 to 1 odds on his death, I'd say.

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larnsturt December 21 2006, 22:49:54 UTC
Isn't he going to Godric's Hollow to see his mum and dad? Or what's left of them, I suppose.

That's death and a hollow. Hallow. Vales of Har. Whatever. Where'd you read it?

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queencaeledra December 22 2006, 20:01:02 UTC
Vales of HAR! (That one's gonna stick with us for a while isn't it?)

Got it straight from the horse's mouth. Or the horse's secret room on her website, as the case may be. I thought of Godric's Hollow too, but I think that's wrong. For the why read my longwinded and over researched response to Ashley-poo below.

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boh_doh_dee_oh December 22 2006, 17:12:11 UTC
so that IS the official title? i thought it was just ONE of the options. but ok. interesting. WHAT is a hallow?

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queencaeledra December 22 2006, 19:58:14 UTC
Yep, it was behind the locked door, so very official. My knee jerk reaction was 'oh, right Godric's Hollow!' But no, it's 'hallow' with an a which means holy or sacred, i.e. a churchyard is hallowed ground, "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.." etc..

It can also be a noun, like how Hallow'een is a shortened form of All Hallow's Eve, the night before the Feast of All Hallows, 'hallow' in that case being Old English for 'saint'. So there is precedent for the 'hallowed' person or thing being refered to as a 'hallow' the noun.

I thought maybe that hallow was an Anglicization of hollow, at least as far as geographic features are considered, because that would make sense especialy in relation to Godric's Hollow, but I've doen alittle checking and they seem to come from different root words.

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