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Jun. 30th, 2003 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silversolitaireHm, strange idea on the title of HP #5
Shouldn't the book be called Harry Potter and the Lost Prophecy or something? I was thinking that yesterday while I was looking at the covers of the other books. So far, the title always referred to the thing Harry is looking for that year. In the first book it's the Philosopher's Stone, in the second the Chamber of Secrets, the Prisoner of Azkaban too in a way since it's all about Sirius and he too is the big secret, the Goblet of Fire in the fourth (and I always thought that it was a much better title than the originally intended "and the Triwizard Tournament"). But now it's "and the Order of the Phoenix" and somehow this is so... unspectacular. We learn about the OotP almost immediately and it does have some significance to the plot but it's by all means not the crucial thing about it. The whole plot builds up on and works towards Voldemort's acquisition of the prophecy. Most mysterious and secrets point towards it (except for the generous number of red herrings presented to us as usual, such as Hagrid's giant brother and Umbridge's general nazi-ness). So, it appears to me as if "OotP" isn't exactly in the same vein as the other titles. Or maybe it's just me?
Shouldn't the book be called Harry Potter and the Lost Prophecy or something? I was thinking that yesterday while I was looking at the covers of the other books. So far, the title always referred to the thing Harry is looking for that year. In the first book it's the Philosopher's Stone, in the second the Chamber of Secrets, the Prisoner of Azkaban too in a way since it's all about Sirius and he too is the big secret, the Goblet of Fire in the fourth (and I always thought that it was a much better title than the originally intended "and the Triwizard Tournament"). But now it's "and the Order of the Phoenix" and somehow this is so... unspectacular. We learn about the OotP almost immediately and it does have some significance to the plot but it's by all means not the crucial thing about it. The whole plot builds up on and works towards Voldemort's acquisition of the prophecy. Most mysterious and secrets point towards it (except for the generous number of red herrings presented to us as usual, such as Hagrid's giant brother and Umbridge's general nazi-ness). So, it appears to me as if "OotP" isn't exactly in the same vein as the other titles. Or maybe it's just me?
