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From the Guardian Unlimitted:
"Final Harry Potter title revealed
Months of speculation at an end as name of seventh instalment of boy wizard's adventures is announced
Sarah Crown
Thursday December 21, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
Christmas came early for fans of the Harry Potter series this year, with the revelation of the title of the long-awaited seventh book. The final instalment
of the adventures of the boy wizard who, has captured the imagination of children (and adults) the world over, will be called Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows.
The announcement, which was made on the website of JK Rowling's UK publisher, Bloomsbury, puts an end to months of internet speculation, with guesses ranging
from Harry Potter and the Pyramids of Furmat to Harry Potter and the Graveyard of Memories. The actual title, however, gives little away; doubtless the
rumour mills will now go into overdrive debating what exactly "deathly hallows", which have not featured in any of the previous Potter books, may be.
Kes Nielsen, head of book-buying at Amazon.co.uk, reported a surge of activity in the site's Harry Potter store, following the announcement. "This is the
first piece of the jigsaw in the final part of the Harry Potter series," he said. "The book's release will be met with an unprecedented level of excitement
- but also a sense of sadness. Over the past 10 years, so many people have been enchanted by the world and characters that JK Rowling has created. It will
be like saying goodbye to an old friend.""
Bob
Rowling has yet to deliver the final manuscript of the climax to the Potter series; speaking on her website two days ago, she said that she had been "working
very hard ... writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years ... I am alternately elated and overwrought. I both want, and don't
want, to finish this book (don't worry, I will.)"
The publication date for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is still unknown, but is expected to be set in early 2007.
awesome, great news!
Book 7 is entitled I'm a plageriser and I admit it.
Nope! In order to avoid confusion with the last post and the first post, the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series is called "harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows." Jo hasn't pinched any ideas at all from JRR Tolkien's books. I should know. I have the unabridged versions of The Silmarillion, The Hobbit (that's a talking book( the dramatised Hobbit and dramatised Lord Of The Rings and the unabridged 38-tape version of Lord Ogf The rings. Not once, in any of these three books Tolkien wrote, does he mention schools which educate students between the ages of 11 and 17, teaching the correct ways to use magic and teaching them Witchcraft and Wizzardry, Not once does Tolkien mention magic wands, broomsticks, cauldrons, magical confectionery, other magical foods or drinks, cauldrons of all makes, shapes and sizes, charms, hexes, jinxes or incantations for spells. J K Rowling might've had the same idea about a dark lord or dark wizzard who wants to take over all of the magical world of witchcraft and wizzardry, while everyone else is trying their very best to hold him off and also to hide all of this goings-on from the muggles (non-magic people). Tolkien on the other hand, doesn't have a magical and non-magical element in his world. Everyone in Middle Earth is magical in their own special way and the books are based around the 14th or 15th century in our world, planet earth. They resolve their differences by fighting huge battles and killing each other off. Not Jo's style at all, unless you count the single fight with Voldemort or he-who-must-not-be-named himself and Harry Potter, the star character, close to the end of each book (with the acceptions of books 3 and 6, where he faught a gang of Voldemort's supporters and around 100 dimentors who were supposed to be stationed round Hogwarts school to capture Harry's godfather who'd escaped from Azkaban prison.) As it happens, Sirius Black had been wrongly imprisoned for a crime he never commited. Anyway, back to the point, J.K. Rowling is by no means, guilty of any plaigerism, what so ever. Believe, me, don't believe me, or even better, anybody who still doesn't believe me after all I have said in this post, either go back to school and retake your English O-levels, or read both Rowling's books and Tolkien's books, right the way through. Hopefully then, you'll see I'm right. Rant over.
Jen.
Hooray! At least we finally know something! I've been poking around those sites weekly to see what's going on, yet this is the first place I saw anything useful.
Thanks for the update. I can't wait for it's release. <smile>
She has categorically stolen various ideas including a variation on The Nazgul,her blatant plagerising is a sign of a very average writer.Tolkien is a genuis and she is a theif.
There aren't nine riders in the Harry Potter books. There are however, a couple of hundred dimentors who are usually to be found at Azkaban prison which is on an island a little way out to sea. The dimentors don't even act like the black riders. They are not invisible men and they don't carry swords and shields and they don't wear any protective armour as far as we know and they don't ride on horseback like the black riders. The only people who have seen what is under the hoods of the dimentors cloaks would be in no position to tell anybody else what they saw, because the only time a dimentor raises its, hood is to use their worst and only weapon, the dimentor's kiss, rendering the target brain dead, so, the only thing I'd say Jo has stolen there is the dimentors, long black cloaks and hoods.
am very excited about the next book.
I think perhaps Goblin need look the word plagiarism up before using it so freely. Plagiarism sir is the the deliberate copying of somebody else's writing which you then pass off as your own and not the theft of ideas as you are suggesting. So unless JK Rowling has actually re-written parts of somebody else's book and claimed it to be her own work, she isn't guilty of plagiarism.
So far as the book itself, just please let it be over! Soon. I'm sick of constantly hearing about Harry bloody Potter. LOL
Dan.
Awww, Dan, but you know you like the books, too. LOL.
Good, glad we have some info about the new book. I do hope she starts killing off some of the evil characters this time. It seems that every time someone dies, it's from the good side. Sirius, Dumbledore, Cedric, and so forth. I can't think of any major character from the evil side that she killed, except maybe Quirrell.
Oo oo. I agree. Draco needs to die. Or maybe Snape, but ... wait. do we know Snape is on the bad side for sure? Is he still acting as a double agent? I'm convinced he's evil now ... it just doesn't send a good message to have the good guys killing each other, so I really don't want to believe that Dumbledore had planned to be murdered by Snape.
Can't wait to read the last and final book!
Aww I actually liked Draco in the 6th book. He is good, I think. Just misguided.
Michelle
Maybe he'll die, though, because he didn't actually kill Dumbledore, like he was supposed to.
Draco is sexay. I've been yelled at numerous times for saying so, but he is. And I agree, I don't think he's necessarily evil, just unfortunate and, as has already been said, misguided.
And, more to the point of the original post, I'm glad the title has finally been released. means we're getting closer to the actual book.
Also, to say that J.K. Rowling is guilty of plagiarism, or even that she is a lesser writer than Tolkien simply because her books may have contained ideas similar to those in LOTR, is silly. Nothing is original anymore, everything has already been done in some form or another, and the elements she has supposedly stolen, the ones that have been mentioned here already, I highly doubt they're unique to Tolkien's writings only. And I think a fair enough amount has already been said on the differences between the supposedly same elements that I don't need to go over any of them again.
And finally, Dan, how DARE you?! Harry Potter owns your soul.
There are tall figures drenched in black robes complete with a blanked out face...when my partner and I dressed as Nazgul for halloween ..we were asked 3 times, if we were the creatures from HP.
The difference between the Nazgal and the dimentors though, is that the dimentors don't ride on horseback or fly on those terrible winged bat things. They simply glide everywhere. I'd love Snape to die in the 7th Harry Potter book BTW.
They havwe been stolen from Tolkien as they resemble thje Nazgul in every way. You are obssesed and that is not mentally healthy..get a life
Godlin shout the fuck up, all of those kinds of stories have some of the same elements in them. If they didn't then it won't be fantasy stories... I think you need to fuck off. But anyways I'm glad to know that the seventh book has been anounced.
lol maybe you should have gotten a better costume, if people couldn't tell who you were? perhaps? hmm? heheheh smiles. i would have to agree with dan on this one.
this just isn't my thing! smiles
shea
I heard the publication date is 070707.
Damn, Potter have to end now? I just got into it like only less then a year ago! This sucks, sobs. LOL
maybe the reason why goblin's fancy dress costume was mistaken as that of the dementors was because the people asking him hadn't read the lord of the rings, but they had read the hp storeies. the thing is, lord of the rings is one hell of a read, being very heavy going in some parts, wheras the hp series is maybe not so much of a heavy read. people don't want heavy reads these days.
I am so psyched for the new book to come out. You have no clue. Everybody says I'm obsessed with Harry Potter. LOL