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Do you notice something slightly unusual here?
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
(Hint: all capitalization, or lack thereof, is intentional.)
These are thevoyages of the "sentence case" formats of the titles which we use in our library catalog. ("Sentence case" means everything is lowercased except the initial word and any proper nouns: i.e., it is capitalized as you would an English sentence, rather than "title case" which capitalizes "significant" words.)
This is annoying me here because a lot of these are proper nouns, as they are used within the text anyway. Take "prince", for example, just to, you know, pick a totally unbiased and not at all current-topical example at random. Not only do we know that it is revealed to be a surname, but within the text it is capitalized like a name ("the Prince", vs. "the headmaster" or "the king") while Harry is still not cottoning on to that fact. While I suppose styling this Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince would give it away a bit soon since we're meant to think it's a literal prince as long as possible... *shrug* still.
While we're on that topic, I've often wondered why it would be so impossible. We're told "there are no wizarding princes" and that seems to be true in this time and location, but even assuming it holds for other times and places, why not "princely wizards", i.e. wizards who were also Muggle nobility? I don't see why not. And in that case it should be quite possible to get a "half-blood prince" in the literal sense.
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
(Hint: all capitalization, or lack thereof, is intentional.)
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This is annoying me here because a lot of these are proper nouns, as they are used within the text anyway. Take "prince", for example, just to, you know, pick a totally unbiased and not at all current-topical example at random. Not only do we know that it is revealed to be a surname, but within the text it is capitalized like a name ("the Prince", vs. "the headmaster" or "the king") while Harry is still not cottoning on to that fact. While I suppose styling this Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince would give it away a bit soon since we're meant to think it's a literal prince as long as possible... *shrug* still.
While we're on that topic, I've often wondered why it would be so impossible. We're told "there are no wizarding princes" and that seems to be true in this time and location, but even assuming it holds for other times and places, why not "princely wizards", i.e. wizards who were also Muggle nobility? I don't see why not. And in that case it should be quite possible to get a "half-blood prince" in the literal sense.