--- On Wed, 1/10/08, Chiara <chiara.zoni@...> wrote:

>>Hi! I joined this group a long time ago because I'd read some of your fics on Fanfiction.net and was very interested in your other works. Some of them - the Auror and the Lodger series for example - are my long-standing favourites, so I'd like to thank you for that :) The thing is, I was inactive in the fandom for a long while, and when I checked in on the group today I immediately started rereading CoP. After all of these years I'm still wondering about the meaning of the expression 'Cry God for Harry', though. I searched on Google and all I got was Shakespeare, St. George and England. And I still haven't understood. So could you (or someone) please explain it to me? Have mercy on the poor foreigner... (LOL)

Thank you in advance!<<

 

Hi Chiara,

 

Many apologies for not replying to you sooner (and many thanks to Chris P for helping out!).

 

As Chris P said, "Cry God For Harry" is lifted from Shakespeare's "Henry V", specifically:

 

I'll hold my hand up, though, and confess that the actual text from the play has no especial significance to the chapter in "Circles" - I just liked the line and thought it would make a good title for the chapter.  I'm not even sure why I decided to give the chapters titles anyway, especially as I struggled with some of them (chapter 4 "What friends are for" comes to mind).  It's not something I generally do because if I'm left to my own devices, at best I shamelessly rip off Shakespeare and other poets and playwrights, and at worst I lapse into annoying Piers Anthony-like puns :-)

Mad Martha