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Seventh Harry Potter Book Named
Croakyvoice writes "JK Rowling has today given fans of the Harry Potter books the name of Book 7 of the very popular series via a Christmas present on her site, to get to the name you need to follow a complicated procedure but thankfully the name of the book has been revealed as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
I'm so obsessed with Harry Potter. This was the best Christmas present she could give out... short of the book itself.
What part of the "stuff that matters", don't you understand?
Are you implying that because an English writer will dominate the Best Seller list for a while?
Or perhaps you are concerned about millions of kids who have discovered books can be entertaining thanks to Rowlings books?
Or maybe you're just point out how stupid you are in that you didn't realize one of the biggest selling modern writers is neither American nor are her novels set in America, or that literature and popular books are completely independant?
And a good thing, because that title would have embarrassed the proofreader something fierce.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
I was hoping it was going to be "Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth" and that it would come bundled with a copy
of "An Inconvenient Truth" and some moon sapphires...
"I don't quite understand, Sir," said Harry.
Dumbledore took him by the shoulder. "Ah, Harry, that's what I like about you. Sometimes you're thick as a brick. Which allows us to keep the series going for so many books."
Hermione interrupted. "*I* understand, Sir."
"And I've been meaning to speak to you, Hermione. About those candles, broomsticks, and bowling pins the housekeepers report littering your bedchamber..."
---- sometimes, you just DON'T want to see the parts Rowling edited out of the draft manuscripts...
Man, that naming formula is even more boring than Star Wars' "Episode NUMBER: VERB of the NOUN".
sic transit gloria mundi
One of the best comments ever was in a long thread about the technicalities of RAID hardware. Someone wrote four long paragraphs, and halfway through the second, tacked on to the end of one sentence "and besides, Hermione dies in the last book anyways." *
The outrage was tremendous because, before you even realized you were reading a spoiler, you'd finished and comprehended it. Sweetest troll ever.
* No one knows who dies in the last book, if someone does. At the time, Rowling explicitly said she hadn't decided who. It wasn't a real spoiler, and isn't now. Don't freak out.
Anyone who loves or hates any language, platform, or manufacturer, doesn't know what they're talking about.
Somehow, I want to imagine Harry as a closet RPG and fantasy geek who keeps his 'hobbies' hidden because of the ridicule hed' get from his friends for being a real wizard who's into fantasy...
"Harry", said Hermione, "Are you ready to... take this to the next level?"
"You bet", said Harry. "I'll put on my robe and wizard hat."
"What? That's not what I'm..."
"I cast Level 3 eroticism. You turn into a beautiful woman, instead of a flat dork."
"What did you call me?!?!"
"I wave my wand of undressing and you turn naked."
"You have no idea what to do, do you?"
"I look through the Pokedex for the best creature. Hermione, I choose you!"
"My god, you're somehow more pathetic than a muggle dork, you play pretend magic even though you're a real wizard?!"
"Okay, if that's the way you want to play, then I'll use this tome of unspeakable horrors I found in the library. The Necronomicon."
"What?! Harry, you're not supposed to-"
"ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Ia! Ia!"
"My god, what is that thing!?!? It's all tentacle and-"
"I hope you enjoy this, Hermione, I saw this in a Japanese cartoon once..."
"*NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!* *mrrrrhhhh*"
Ah, well. One can dream, can't he? (References to bloodninja and Cthulu)