Hidden Humor
| In looking for the passage of Harry kissing Ginny for the previous post, I came across this on HBP 417. "Personally I think there's a lot to be said for hexing him with that toenail thing of the Prince's." If you go to Rowling's site under the rumors section for the end of June 2004, one of the rumors she dispels is that book six would be called "HP and the Pillar of Storge" ... the next rumor she put up was that it would be called "Harry Potter and the Toenail of Icklibogg" - the second name was her own invention and her blurb on the side was "Well, if you believed the 'Storge' one ..." Hence, I think the line in HBP was an addition specifically refering to that interchange, simply for humor ... which I at least found it funny when I realized where it was from. |
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Pauli said ... (October 25, 2005 9:21 PM)
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post a commentI remember reading the rumor when it came out in 2004. I always forget how long we wait for the books. Can you imagine waiting for Tolkien's stuff - how many years were between those? The downside to those is I pretty much knew how the story ended when I picked up the Fellowship of the Ring...the nice thing about HP is the excitement, finding out what happens regardless of the long waiting....