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Postby Hermione Weasley » Tuesday 22 July 2003 9:24:11pm

I think that depending on when the 6th book comes out we have 4 to 5 years till the last book
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Postby Paul » Friday 25 July 2003 10:59:20pm

I've been wondering about the "Final word being scar" thing too. I saw the Jeremy Paxman interview of 19th July and I'm sure she didn't say it in that interview. Is there anywhere definitive (for example a news source like the BBC or CNN) that confirms that she has ever said this or is it just a rumour? I may be wrong but I would expect it's just a rumour that has gone out of control - she's been very careful not to give things away, and I wouldn't expect her to have given away the very last word of the last book.

She did mention in the Jeremy Paxman interview that she has already started writing book 6. I'd agree with the estimates of about 2 to 3 years for each of the next 2 books.
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Postby HuffleDuck » Saturday 26 July 2003 7:43:19am

I have heard of that rumour too about the last word in book 7 is "scar". But now I'm not so sure for rumor has gone so wildly like fire outta control. I can't trust any more rumors that hasn't come out of JK herself. Like the rumors before book 5 coming out. If i remember it correctly, leaky-cauldron have posted about that before.
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Postby Gwared » Saturday 26 July 2003 12:15:40pm

Paul wrote:I've been wondering about the "Final word being scar" thing too. I saw the Jeremy Paxman interview of 19th July and I'm sure she didn't say it in that interview. Is there anywhere definitive (for example a news source like the BBC or CNN) that confirms that she has ever said this or is it just a rumour? I may be wrong but I would expect it's just a rumour that has gone out of control - she's been very careful not to give things away, and I wouldn't expect her to have given away the very last word of the last book.

She did mention in the Jeremy Paxman interview that she has already started writing book 6. I'd agree with the estimates of about 2 to 3 years for each of the next 2 books.


I couldn't be bothered to find the Jeremy Paxman interview but I found this and many other sites all saying the same thing:

JK Rowling has said the last word of the last book will be "scar". Now she says that it may change during the writing of the Seventh Book.

From http://www.silveranimagus.com/books/book7.shtml
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Postby Eol » Saturday 2 August 2003 4:03:12pm

JK Rowling has had the entire Harry Potter story planned out in rough for years before she actually endeavoured to finish them and get them published. All we are waiting for now is for her to tie up the loose ends and put her definitive touches to the stories. However, we all know the effort and detail she puts into the stories, so we could all be in for a long wait.
She has actually said that she doesn't have a deadline for the next 2 books, and that she doesn't want one :-?
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Postby Charis » Saturday 2 August 2003 10:20:14pm

thats true Eol, she has had the entire story roughly planned out. but i think she still has to actually write it into book format, not just tie up loose ends and add details. so, that could be another reason it'll take awhile for the next couple books to come out. :)
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Postby Meg Boyd » Friday 8 August 2003 3:56:41am

it's really easy to have a complex storyline all planned out in one's head, but its writing it out in book format that is hard...when I write, I love details, and the details and making every line ring with perfect prose is what I crave, and from reading JKR work, I'm pretty sure that's what she craves too...I have a storyline all planned out, but I still am having a hard time writing it out and getting the details right, so I am sure a book and story of the magnitude of Harry Potter would be most difficult.
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Postby Gower » Saturday 13 September 2003 10:54:53pm

JK is keeping us in suspense while she enjoys life :D Anyway she did say that she would be sad when the seventh book comes out, so it makes sense( from her point of view) to9 delay it. She has enough money anyway.
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What if JKR died????

Postby Hermione McBeal » Tuesday 16 September 2003 4:28:32pm

I have never had to wait for a Harry Potter book to come out before - having only started reading them about 3 months ago (I bought the first one "just to see what all the fuss was about" and was instantly hooked) going from each one straight onto the next. :D

However, now I have finished the fifth book I am at a complete loss, don't know what I am going ot do until the next comes out.

And then I had a terrible thought......

What if Her Majesty JKR gets knocked over by a bus????? :o

Has she taken precautions for this, or some other fatal event, occuring??? Has she given copies of the plans for the 6th and 7th books, and the famous already-written "final chapter" to her lawyers, so that if she died all HP fans would be able to find out what would have happened.

Just a (scary) though....

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Postby choki » Tuesday 16 September 2003 5:24:50pm

I have readed it somewhere...JK has the main storyplot written out and placed into a safe deposit box...so if anything happens and JK isn't able to complete the series, someone will continue from there.
(hopefully that doesn't happen)
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Postby Ju-DedoH » Tuesday 16 September 2003 6:18:22pm

NOOOOO no one else (except maybe Tolkienn but he is dead) should be alouwed to continue her work, they should just publish her notes so that people know what happens but not have it written by someone else !
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Postby Hermione McBeal » Tuesday 16 September 2003 8:05:11pm

Yes, that was my thinking - I don't think anyone else should try and write whatever remains - they should simply publish anything she has done so far, plus her notes, plus the "final chapter".

But, let's hope that this is all hypothetical and it never comes to that.

She is a genius and I can't wait for it all to be finished. I am 32 years old and my partner can't understand what all the fuss is about, but she has got me back into reading for pleasure .
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Postby Gower » Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:18:14pm

choki wrote:I have readed it somewhere...JK has the main storyplot written out and placed into a safe deposit box...so if anything happens and JK isn't able to complete the series, someone will continue from there.
(hopefully that doesn't happen)


Maybe JK should hire some bodyguards :grin:
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Postby Jotomicron » Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:50:40pm

Hey!!! Wait!

We're talking about JKR ... *whispers* I cant say it ...death :x ...
We shouldn't think about something like that!

Yes, it could happen! But she doesn't actually crosses roads without looking, and things like that!!! We ought not to think in this...



:) ~Just wonder about ev'rything... It's good to your mind~ :)
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Postby gecko » Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:52:54pm

Maybe someone good in Divination could use his or her inner eye to see and tell us JKR's future? :lol:
It would give us some certainty!
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