Not sure where the source of the quote is from, but I got it from
here which is a pretty accurate site for British Celeb Stuff.
http://www.popbitch.com/newboard/17/board.html
"The seventh Harry Potter book may not be the last we hear of the boy wizard, author JK Rowling hinted today. Instead, she may write another instalment about Harry as a grown-up."
neiname
03-04-04, 09:43 AM
Why the hell not... As long as she is the one writing them I have no problem.
Groucho
03-04-04, 09:50 AM
My guess is that she'll start a new series of books focusing on a new main character (perhaps another Hogwart's student), with Harry playing a supporting role.
namrfumot
03-04-04, 10:04 AM
Ginny wont be jail bait anymore :p
Shemp
03-04-04, 04:20 PM
Found this on Reuters today. It's about a recent public appearance Rowling gave. It doesn't deal with a book 8, but there's an interesting item near the bottom about the future of the series.
Link (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=4498951)
LONDON (Reuters) - J.K. Rowling would love to follow in the footsteps of the world's most famous boy wizard and fly on a broomstick like Harry Potter.
And, if she had a chance, Potter's creator would take Harry out to a meal and apologize to the hero of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for all the ordeals he faced.
Pottermania struck again Thursday when Rowling was bombarded in a live Web chat with 16,000 questions from avid readers of her wizard sagas.
Obsessive children with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Potter books tried to tease out of Rowling her plot lines for Book Six which she is currently writing.
No joy.
When asked if the wicked Voldemort would die, she replied in the World Book Day Web chat: "Now do you really think I would answer that?"
But she was more open when asked about the magical powers she would like to possess, taking a gentle dig at the global cacophony that greets the publication of every Potter book.
"I would like to fly. And sometimes turn off other people's voices," she said.
The release in June last year of the fifth book was billed as the world's biggest book launch.
Asked what would happen if fiction became fact, Rowling said: "I think I'd most like to spend a day with Harry. I'd take him out for a meal and apologize for everything I put him through."
Then she teasingly warned that even tougher times faced Potter: "In Book Six, the wizarding world is really at war again and he has to master his own feelings to make himself useful."
"If personally I was Harry Potter, I would hide because I know what is coming," she said.
For all those children who know every twist and turn of the Potter plots, she had a word of warning -- when she finishes the saga with Book Seven, she will settle down and revise them all.
But she promised there would be no prequels. "You won't need them. By the time I've finished you'll have all the back story you need."
JasonF
03-04-04, 05:49 PM
Here's the source of the rumor BadlyDrawnBoy heard:
J.K. Rowling Hints at More 'Harry Potter'
Mar 4, 10:33 AM (ET)
LONDON (AP) - Harry Potter may be set to grow up. Writer J.K. Rowling hinted Thursday that she may not stop at seven books about the adventures of the young wizard and may write a further installment featuring the adult Harry.
In a live Web chat to mark World Book Day, Rowling - who has always insisted she'll write only seven Potter books - was asked by a fan if she intended to write books about Harry after he leaves Hogwarts, the academy for wizards.
"Probably not. But I'll never say never because every time I do I immediately break the vow," she replied.
Rowling, whose wealth was recently estimated at $1 billion, is writing the sixth Potter book. The most recent installment is "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."
"I can't say when it will be released because that's down to my publishers," she said. "But it's going really well. I am loving writing it."
She promised the latest book would include more romance for the boy wizard, but hinted he would also face a terrible ordeal. She added that she planned to try a "completely different genre" of writing when she has finished the seventh book, but did not specify.
More than 16,000 Potter fans submitted questions during the hour-long discussion.
I'm curious as to how she would "revise" the earlier novels as I think overall they are better than the later novels, which have more need of revisions IMO.
Kal-El
03-04-04, 07:22 PM
Does that mean that Harry doesn't die in the end as she's been deviously avoiding answering over the years?
Drop
03-05-04, 12:22 PM
Well I think there is room for revision in terms of tightening up the storytelling. I think she has a lot of unnecessary descriptions and she can go on somethings for too long, but she could easily cut them out, making the story flow better, without changing the story itself. Whether she actually does this doesn't really matter, she is an otherwise great storyteller, and Harry Potter's adventures will always be interesting and exciting.
Verbal Gorilla
03-05-04, 03:14 PM
Originally posted by PalmerJoss
I'm curious as to how she would "revise" the earlier novels as I think overall they are better than the later novels, which have more need of revisions IMO.
Well, in this case I don't think revise is used to make them better as novels, but to make sure there are no loose ends and to connect things from the earlier books that happen different in the later. She is/or is trying to make a complete universe and she doesn't want any contridictory stuff...
Eric F
03-06-04, 10:25 AM
Harry as an adult can endorse beer and cigarettes.
Does that mean that Harry doesn't die in the end as she's been deviously avoiding answering over the years?I'm not sure that her latest quote makes it any more clear. Ho hum.
gryffinmaster
06-26-06, 05:07 PM
Maybe Wizard college? ;) What, instead of Hogwarts, it's Toadblister College of Advanced Wizardry?
Harry as a Hogwarts professor or ... Dumbledore's replacement?
I'd probably check out later Potter books, but only if there is some school element involved. :up: Unless Harry has a REALLY cool wizard job.
madara
06-26-06, 05:48 PM
Holy threadbumps Batman!
silentbob007
06-27-06, 10:11 AM
Personally, I think the only way Rowling will do more books in the HP universe (outside of 7, of course) will be if she isn't successful with any new stories/series that she creates. She's going to try to move on to prove that there's more to her than HP ... I guess we'll see if there is.
Dashed
07-08-06, 05:55 AM
I always thought Harry Would die at the end of the last book. It almost seems fitting with the story getting darker and darker.
mllefoo
07-08-06, 09:17 PM
Maybe Wizard college? ;) What, instead of Hogwarts, it's Toadblister College of Advanced Wizardry?
Harry as a Hogwarts professor or ... Dumbledore's replacement?
I'd probably check out later Potter books, but only if there is some school element involved. :up: Unless Harry has a REALLY cool wizard job.
They can get Dylan Moran to play a more sarcastic, people-hating, adult Harry.
I always thought Harry Would die at the end of the last book. It almost seems fitting with the story getting darker and darker.
I figure that he'll beat Voldemort, but in the process he'll lose all his powers.
Anubis2005X
07-25-06, 06:55 PM
I figure that he'll beat Voldemort, but in the process he'll lose all his powers.
Ohh, nice twist that'd be...
beavis69
07-25-06, 07:26 PM
I would have actually liked to have seen harry and voldermort die, and it end with ron and hermonie together and graduating, with sort of a reflection on their 7 years and the friends they have made. To me that would be the perfect ending. It would be fitting with the prophecy and Harry giving his life would be very emotional.
JAA
07-26-06, 08:13 AM
I would have actually liked to have seen harry and voldermort die, and it end with ron and hermonie together and graduating, with sort of a reflection on their 7 years and the friends they have made. To me that would be the perfect ending. It would be fitting with the prophecy and Harry giving his life would be very emotional.
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