Next Harry Potter book completed

richardm

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richardm
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... and it's hopefully ready for release on the 16th July next year.

Can't help wonder what size it's going to be. The trend is to keep going larger, but surely she can't keep that up? They'll have to distribute it in two volumes if it gets much bigger.
 
She's just going to get impatient and ready to move on to other things. Here's the first chapter of book seven, the last one:

Harry Potter and I'm So Very Tired Of This

Chapter One

"Holy crap, Hermione! You just killed Voldemort!" Harry gasped.

"I know. I got tired of your just dicking around. I mean, so what if you're the special hero boy? I'm the smart one, dammit, so I just stood behind the door waiting for Voldemort to come in, and then I zapped him. No need for conspiracies, or prophecies, or headmasters, or another damned book. If you'll excuse me, I've got to go sort out Ron, now that I've practiced killing. He's said 'Brilliant!' just one time too many."

"I guess I'll just have to graduate and get a real job, now." Harry remarked. Then a meteorite hit him and he died.

The End
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The reason they need a delay of seven months before releasing the book is that they need to reserve 500 dump trucks to haul money to JK Rowling's house.
 
Brown said:
The reason they need a delay of seven months before releasing the book is that they need to reserve 500 dump trucks to haul money to JK Rowling's house.
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She's richer than that. Her publisher is actually funding research and development of a functioning Floo Network simply in order to get those wads of money to her. Otherwise they'd be tying up too many roads with convoys of dumptrucks.
 
Ove said:
WOW man!!!!!! talk about sour grapes.:p :p :p :p :p
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Ain't it just. I'm always astonished by the vitriol Rowling seems to attract (and what's here isn't vitriolic, I've seen her sex life dragged into the equation before). Perhaps it helps if you like the books - it's easier to see that the money hasn't just fallen in her lap purely by chance; there was some work involved in there too. Admittedly luck always plays a part in the publishing game, but even outside writing the books she's kept a tight rein on the way things have played out in terms of spinoffs.

Can't see what's wrong with that either.

Perhaps it's just because she's a woman, and should be slaving over a hot stove instead of messing around making her brain overheat by writing?

:xfight


:D
 
richardm said:
Ain't it just. I'm always astonished by the vitriol Rowling seems to attract (and what's here isn't vitriolic, I've seen her sex life dragged into the equation before).
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I suspect it's just jealousy. I mean, yeah, her books are good. I like them. But they're not "billions of dollars" good. For every super successful writer, there are thousands of unsuccessful ones, many of whom are actually produce as good or better work, but missed the luck.

And then they pick up a huge following, and become important and influential pinnacles of their genres and are incorporated into the cultural history and people write dissertations on them and pay thousands for first editions.....all happening fifty years after the author died in poverty. H.P. Lovecraft is a perfect example, poor bastard.

I think people who write for a living are terrified of winding up poor and forgotten, and they get bitter at the ones who wind up rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Plus, of course, anyone who's too successful makes the rest of us look bad, so naturally people are going to slang off at them.
 
INHO she's worth every penny, she is an excellent storyteller and she has that ability to create an universe that you want to believe in even though it's impossible and yes, there are probably many that writes just as brilliantly but who never gets a chanche but hey, that's life folks.

I am a far better drummer than some of the "drum owners" i see on TV sometimes but they earn lots of money i don't .;) Does that make me bitter? Not at all but i sometimes wish i could snap the drumsticks from one of those guys and poke them up his ***.:D
 
All that discussion aside, the only thing I know is that I'll be lining up outside the store when the Big Day comes... whatever size it is. There's a line of thinking that says "I can't get enough of Harry Potter! Let the books get larger and larger"!

Personally, I don't mind brick books, but considering that the quality of the last one suffered, I trade quantity for quality.
 
Diamond said:
Am I the only one who found Tragic Monkey's post hysterical? :D
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No, but we don't want to encourage it.
:p ;)
 
The only thing I think about the money she makes is what the letter in Viz pointed out. She makes such a big deal that she was a poor unemployed single mother when she wrote the first book. So she was working for profit whilst claiming benefits for unemployment. You can go to prison for that.

Cheers,
Rat.
 
So she was working for profit whilst claiming benefits for unemployment. You can go to prison for that.
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You would have a VERY hard time proving that.;) Writers is one of the few groups that doesn't have well defined "Working hours" and tecnically she would have been able to take any job at moments notice (which is the criteria for getting social benefits over here).
 
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