Wednesday, December 20, 2006

HP 7 Update: JKR hard at work

Hooray! An update from author JK Rowling at her official website yesterday assures all HP fans that she's hard at work on book 7. I think most of us had a feeling that was the case...

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.)


She then goes on to relate a funny, somewhat bizarre dream she had -- the first (she claims) that she's ever had in "Harry's world." In the dream she was both Harry and the narrator, and was hunting for a horcrux. Very interesting....

3 comments:

Erin said...

...and a title! "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"... Hmmm... sounds spooky!

Beth said...

Yikes! A title! See what happens when I have a busy day and can't check HP news? I was wondering if we'd get a title for Christmas, like she did with Half-Blood Prince. I was hoping we would, but the little writing tid-bit she gave on Tuesday threw me off. I thought it might be the only bit of "news" this season after all.

A title gives me hope that the story really is moving along...

OK, I've just been checking in over at the Leaky Cauldron -- fascinating title indeed. What do you think it means? :-)

It has "deathly" in the title. Does that bode well?

Erin said...

I sense a very dark book coming... But hopefully not overwhelmingly so! I was browsing around on Rowling's site after reading your blog this morning but I found out about the title at work. Big news... could a date be next? I recall that the date for book 6 came just before Christmas... ;)