Thursday, December 21, 2006

Weird Harry Potter book title revealed


J.K. Rowling has today announced on her website that the title of her as yet undelivered seventh book is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

4 comments:

JPX said...

From Rowling's website,

"DECEMBER 19th

The long lack of updates has been due to some very hard work. I'm now writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or even more. I don't think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels: I am alternately elated and overwrought. I both want, and don't want, to finish this book (don't worry, I will.)

For years now, people have asked me whether I ever dream that I am 'in' Harry's world. The answer was 'no' until a few nights ago, when I had an epic dream in which I was, simultaneously, Harry and the narrator. I was searching for a Horcrux in a gigantic, crowded hall, which bore no resemblance to the Great Hall as I imagine it. As the narrator I knew perfectly well that the Horcrux was jammed in a hidden nook in the fireplace, while as Harry I was searching for it in all kinds of other places, while trying to make the people around me say lines I had pre-arranged for them. Meanwhile waiters and waitresses who work in the real café in which I have written huge parts of book seven roamed around me as though on stilts, all of them at least fifteen feet high. Perhaps I should cut back on the caffeine?

I made another daytrip to Leavesden a few weeks ago, where I saw twenty minutes of Order of the Phoenix, which looks fantastic. Also got a chance, before they all took off in their different directions (it was the last week of live actor filming) to talk to Dan, Rupert, Emma and Evanna, which is always wonderful. Dan has changed his theory on Snape; he says he doesn't want to be like one of those people who are photographed, beaming, next to mad dictators."

Octopunk said...

I had a dream like that once, except it was at a picnic and I was searching for the one device that would kill this disguised alien, meanwhile he was looking for the one device he could use to kill us all. Both devices were disguised as something else, and nobody but us knew of the conflict, so we were both circling each other, picking up random objects like sunglasses and ice cream sandwiches. We were making polite conversation all the while.

JPX said...

Octopunk, you're dreaming in nerd!

Octopunk said...

I do everything in nerd.

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