Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince Completed

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Grand job....hope it won't be too long before it's published. I wonder when Paddy Power will open a book on which character dies in this one? :lol:


Next Harry Potter book completed

JK Rowling is expecting her third child next year
Author JK Rowling has completed the sixth Harry Potter novel and is to announce the release date on Tuesday.
She originally said she would announce details on Christmas Day but decided to post a message on her website early.

She said she had plenty of time while pregnant "to tinker with the manuscript to my satisfaction and I am as happy as I have ever been with the end result".

The release date for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be revealed by Rowling's US publisher, Scholastic.

Writing on her website, Rowling said: "I know you all expected this to happen on Christmas Day.

"But I was sure that those of you who celebrate Christmas have better things to do on the day itself than fight your way into my study, whereas those of you who don't celebrate Christmas would definitely prefer not to wait until the 25th."

Publishing phenomenon

Rowling has already revealed that the sixth book will see one of the characters killed, but she has given no hints as to who is doomed.

The fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, was published in June 2003.

The series has been a publishing phenomenon, with five million copies of the last book sold in the first 24 hours of publication.

Fans had to wait three years between publication of the fourth and fifth books.

Each book has got longer and longer, with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix reaching 870 pages. Rowling has said there will be seven novels in the series.

Rowling gave birth to her second child in 2003 and is expecting her third next year.

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You mean Peter Pettigrew. Neither of those are mainstream characters so they would be unlikely in my view.
 
Neither was Cedric Diggory - sorry for my error re Pettinger - I haven't read the books as often as you evidently :P
 
Originally posted by Ardross@Dec 21 2004, 12:06 PM
Neither was Cedric Diggory
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True but that book wasn't advertised as having the death of a major character, The Order of the Phoenix and the new one have been so advertised.

I haven't read the books recently, my memory is just better than yours - it happens when you reach a certain age so I am told :P
 
:o

Outrageous

I nominate all the Weasley children apart from Ron and Ginny largely as the actors playing them are so terrible
 
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? Shurely shome mistake - isn't it Harry Potter and Harry Wales's Great Adventure?
 
Due out in July it has been announced.

Loved the films and have bought all the books.....well into the second one at this stage and would hope to have started the third at least before going back to college.
 
They're great, Aidan...I've read them all at least three times over! Have yet to watch HP & The Prisoner of Azkaban though as I only had the time to pick it up from the post office a few days ago & I've been out every night since. Then I flew home & forgot to pack it.....
 
Brian, surely you're not implying that writers would ever tell less than God's honest truth to the gullible, impressionable young?
 
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