We interrupt this golf website for a special literary bulletin. Author J.K. Rowling has finally announced he name of the seventh and final installment in the blockbuster series – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Hmm…the title gives away little – no one has heard the term before in the prior six books. Here’s my best guess…I think the “deathly hallows” are places where Voldemort has hidden the torn portions of his soul in horcruxes – which we learned last book are objects in which the torn portions of the soul are encased.
Boy I cannot believe I just wrote that last sentence. OK, everybody, I’m just going to go grab me a 40 oz bottle of Shasta, my all-Rush mix tape and play “Missile Command” in the basement for the weekend…JUST KIDDING!
Anyway, publication date was cited as early 2007, but I am not certain that is correct as my experience in publishing law leads me to add six months from the time she finishes the manuscript until publication, so if she were to finish it tomorow, it still would not hit shelves until July. Accelerated scheduling could put it around 90 days, but that’s cutting it close too. Further, Rowling said she was still writing…and her case it’s literally! She handwrites her manuscripts. Good for her! That’s old school. I wish I had the fortitude to do that.
Anyway, if there are any haters out there thinking they can’t learn how to write well from reading Rowling out there, go out and buy Prisoner of Azkaban or Half-Blood Prince and come ring me up again and we’ll have ourselves a clarification session.
…and now we wait. But before then, LaShawn Barber is another terrific writer who is equally enchanted by the series. She is also reporting on the last book in the series as well as one over-protective mother’s misguided crusade to ban the books because – get this – they promote witchcraft. Laura Mallory has not even read a single book. If she did, she might realize these books are not only wholesome, but do not promote witchcraft at all. She really ought to go after Syracuse University for offering a course in Wicca with a straight face. Think I’m kidding? Its an offering in the Religion Department in an effort to show “a multi-cultural and non-Christian” point of view. Hey LaShawn! What’s your opinion on what the “Deathly Hallows” might be?
Here…have a pic of one of my favorite characters – Minerva McGonagall…
oops…that’s Luke Donald’s fiance…why is she wearing the back half of Harry’s broomstick in her hair?…sorry everybody, sorry, that was a cheap and easy laugh…HERE’s Headmistress/Professor McGonagall, my favorite character of all. Oh will she get loads of time to shine in the movie version of Order of the Phoenix. Top three moments: 3) “He will not be single handed!” (sticking up for Dumbledore against Cornelius Fudge; 2) charging boldly into the fray at the Battle of Hagrid’s House; and 1) Telling Peeves “it unscrews the other way” when he was trying to drop a chandelier on someone’s head just to stick it to Dolores Umbridge.
So who is head of Gryffindor House now? I got sorted into Ravenclaw by the way…fitting. I look great in Midnight Blue…
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