Paul wrote:Boo hoo - no-one looks at the front page of the site:
http://broomsticksandowls.com The names which have been trademarked for Books 6 and 7 are there, under the News section on the left hand side.
LOL!
Ok, according to Paul's report
on what's been stated as true, there are three titles that have been patented...two that will be used, and one that is a spare, for the last two books:
The three titles which have beentrademarked are Harry Potter and the Alchemist's Cell, Harry Potter and the Chariots of Light and Harry Potter and the Pyramids of Furmat.
Note, not one of these titles is "Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch"...I'm inclined to believe Paul's information.
Assuming that is indeed true, I wonder which two of those three titles will be used. I think that the Pyramids one will definitely be used...remember in book 3 (I think) when Harry got a letter from Ron telling him that his father won a contest, and the whole Weasley family went to Egypt? And then Hermione said how jealous she was of the Weasleys, as she would have loved to have learned more about magic whilst in Egypt? I've always wondered if there weren't a reason that we there something more--possibly foreshadowing--about that trip. Granted, in the picture that the Weasleys sent to Harry, Pettigrew, as Wormtail, was in the photo, but still, that Pyramids title just seems likely to me. J.K. Rowling seems to enjoy mentioning things seemingly casually only to make a bigger deal of them later.
As for the Alchemist's Cell or the Chariots of Light, I'm not sure which of those two she would use. The carriages that the kids go up to Hogwarts in wouldn't be considered 'chariots', would they? I was thinking of the threstals (I think I've misspelt that--sorry!) and how we'll be reading about them again. Wasn't someone in the Harry Potter series an alchemist? Was it someone Dumbledore knew? All these titles sound possible in their own ways!
tee-hee-hee
Anyone have any idea when the 6th and 7th books will come out? I read somewhere that the 7th book is supposed to be out by 2007, which would mean that the 6th book might be out in 2005, but I don't remember how long ago that was written (and what it was based on or whether or not it was written with the 5th book's publication date in mind). Supposedly, and I read this somewhere on this forum, the 6th book isn't supposed to be as long as the 5th book and I think not as long as the 4th book, so maybe if the 5th book took three years, maybe the 6th book will be out in two. One can hope!
At least we have the third movie to look forward to next year, which should be much better than the first two, particularly since everyone seems to love the third book so much!
Though, maybe it's me, I'm going to find (more so than the 4th book, as he's rarely mentioned, and definitely a lot more than the 1st two books where he isn't mentioned at all) it sad to read now knowing that Sirius dies in book 5.
I totally agree with the poster that said they didn't really feel impacted by the death when he died (as so many close calls were happening--it would have been more shocking if it came out of nowhere), but that as you read on, it just started to sink in and be sad, and now having put down the book, you think about it even more.