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| Last Updated: Tuesday, 27 December 2005, 14:10 GMT JK Rowling 'dreads' Potter finale JK Rowling will start w**k on the final book next month Author JK Rowling has told of her "excitement and dread" at writing the seventh and final Harry Potter book. Rowling admitted on her official website: "I can't quite imagine life without Harry." w**k on the follow-up to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will begin in January, she added. "I contemplate the task with mingled feelings of excitement and dread, because I can't wait to get started," she wrote in a diary posting. "I have been fine-tuning the fine-tuned plan for [book] seven during the past few weeks so I can really set to w**k in January." Rowling admitted: "Sometimes, even at this stage, you can see trouble looming; nearly all the six published books have had Chapters of Doom. "The quintessential never, I hope, to be beaten Chapter That Nearly Broke My Will was chapter nine, Goblet of Fire." More than 300 million copies of Rowling's Harry Potter books have been sold worldwide. The most recent novel, The Half-Blood Prince, was published in July after a two-year wait and became a global best-seller. |
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| Some over-excited fans speculate that the book will be released 2007 in july on the seventh...hence making the release date 07/07/07........wishful thinking on their part :unsure: Sarah |
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| Rowling To Wrap Up Potter Series in 2007 JK Rowling will draw her multi-million-selling series of Harry Potter books to a close next year when she completes the seventh installment. The British author, who has hinted the new book will be called Harry Potter And The Pyramids Of Furmat, is both excited and saddened by the prospect of laying her boy wizard to rest. She writes on her website, "2006 will be the year when I write the final book in the Harry Potter series. I contemplate the task with mingled feelings of excitement and dread because I can't wait to get started, to tell the final part of the story and, at last, to answer all the questions..." |
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| Seventh 'Potter' book out in 2007? Thursday, May 25 2006, 17:50 BST - by David Cribb Harry Potter publisher, Bloomsbury, claims the final installation in the series should be out in 2007. The statement comes from the company's Director of Publishing, Liz Calder, who made the prediction whilst on a visit to India. At the British Council’s Creative Future conference, Calder reportedly spoke about J.K. Rowling's future, as well as the ever-popular novels: "One more Harry Potter only but she (Rowling) said from the beginning that she would write seven. So she would not write another one after this. But Rowling would write other books for us." ”The next Harry Potter book is likely to come out in 2007. I hope so.” |
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| Rowling Contemplates Potter's End Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling revealed that two characters will die in the upcoming seventh and final volume in her best-selling series, the Associated Press reported. "The final chapter is hidden away, although it's now changed very slightly," she said in a live interview on Channel 4's Richard & Judy in the United Kingdom, the AP reported. "One character got a reprieve. But I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die. A price has to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil here. They don't target extras do they? They go for the main characters. Well, I do." Rowling wouldn't reveal if one of the two characters is Harry himself. She added that she has never been tempted to kill him off before the final book because she had always planned seven. "I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks, 'Well, I'm going to kill them off because that means there can be no non-author written sequels," she said. "So it will end with me, and after I'm dead and gone they won't be able to bring back the character.'" Rowling also confessed that she is feeling sad that her days writing the books are almost over, the Reuters news service reported. Rowling, who is currently completing the seventh Potter book went to a garden party for 2,000 children at Buckingham Palace in London on June 25 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's 80th birthday. But, she allowed: "I am feeling sad as it is the last one. But so far, so good." Pressed on when the book would be ready for publication, she would only say: "I'm doing well, I think. You can never really tell 'til you get near the end. I am not quite there yet." |
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| It just entices me to order it on Amazon, and stay in my room and read it from front to back without leaving my home, watching the TV or surfing the net..... |
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| Airport Almost Thwarts Rowling Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said that she won an argument with airport security officials in New York to carry the manuscript of the final Potter book as carryon baggage on her flight back to London, the Associated Press reported. Had security agents not relented, she said on her Web site on Sept. 13, she might not have flown. "I don't know what I would have done if they hadn't—sailed home probably," she wrote. Rowling was in New York to take part in a book reading for charity on Aug. 1 with fellow writers Stephen King and John Irving. Security was drastically tightened after Aug. 10 when British police said they had intercepted a plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners. "The heightened security restrictions on the airlines made the journey back from New York interesting, as I refused to be parted from the manuscript of book seven," Rowling wrote. "A large part of it is handwritten, and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the U.S." Eventually, she added, "They let me take it on, thankfully, bound up in elastic bands." Rowling said she was still considering two possible titles for the last of the boy wizard's adventures. "I was quite happy with one of them until the other one struck me while I was taking a shower in New York," she wrote. "They would both be appropriate, so I think I'll have to wait until I'm further into the book to decide which one works best." |