JK Rowling has announced the title for the final Harry Potter book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What does that even mean, really?
JK Rowling has announced the title for the final Harry Potter book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What does that even mean, really?
M-H
December 22, 2006 — 8:15 am
A hallow is a saint -a hallowed soul – All Hallows Day is the old word for All Saint’s Day, 1 November (hence All Hallows Eve, Halloween, on 31 October). So presumably it means an evil twist on the old idea of saints.
M-H
December 22, 2006 — 8:16 am
And…It’s a bit like the Philosopher’s Stone – no-one knows what it means so maybe the marketing dept will have to change it for parts of the market…
Marci
December 22, 2006 — 8:53 am
Oh good lord. I’m so Pottered out.
Kris
December 22, 2006 — 9:04 am
Right. I mean, I’ve heard the holidays and the adjective before, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen “Hallows” used as a proper noun like that. Maybe it’s just supposed to sound spoooky.
miftik
December 22, 2006 — 10:45 am
I had known of hallows as being a sacred/powerful place (and sometimes even a thing). My first thought was that maybe it is referring to the locations where you find each horcrux or the horcrux itself.
Kris
December 22, 2006 — 12:28 pm
Heh. Even the publishers aren’t too sure…