Friday, December 22, 2006

harry goes to the hollows

finally, Scholastic released the title of Harry Potter's last installment:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows

by the sound of it, i think readers will be bound to a darker, eerier adventure. i got the whole detail of this press release in yahoo. the article also has instructions for the hangman game in J.K. Rowling's official site which is freakin hard to figure out. you have to click a lot of stuff for you to get in the game. i'm done with the chimes step, where it turned in to a key. but nothing happens after. booo!

it's sad because this will be the last Harry Potter book, and strong rumors say that our hero will face a tragic death in the end. but i'm excited as well to find out the culmination of this saga. at least, if i'll start reading again from book one, there won't be bitin moments, hehe.

i just noticed something about Yahoo's press release and UK's press release: they spelled it differently. in UK's release, it's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Hollows - n. A small valley between mountains; a depression hollowed out of solid matter

Hallows - v. Render holy by means of religious rites

this is confusing. but i think both spelling of the two press releases, i can say, is applicable to the context of the book's title. Deathly Hollows can refer to a place, like the graveyard where Harry met Voldemort in the flesh. Deathly Hallows, on the other hand, can be referring to a ritual that can be a cause of Harry's death. interesting.

what do you think?

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