Why are we waiting................

[BloodFire's Mum]

Hi kids we are back!
Anybody heard when that new book is coming out?
Lets get some thread action going in here.
Where are my Thread Starters?

[Kristin]

Poor HP lit! No news, no new books to enliven discussion. :(

Don't worry, BfM, I'll start a new thread right now. :)

[Fleur]

Hiya Bfm! hiya Kristen!

The latest news is the next sunday after never. apparently.

[Finrun]

Umm, i feel like a complete Muggle cos i have no idea what Fleur just said :confused: :D

[Swendula]

She's just complaining about the interminable wait for the book 5 ;)

Everything I've heard points to a June/July 2003 release date, although some optimists still seem to be holding out for this November. Which, I hate to say, is exactly what we were hearing this time last year.

Hiya Bfm! hugs

[Anarie]

I'm one of the optimists! Hope to see it in november, THIS november. :)

[Fleur]

*coughyeahrightinallofourdreamscough*


I think July 2003 is quite probable. If it was November we would have heard by now.

Sadly!

I was thinking maybe it would come out on July 31, but then I remembered that's JKs birthday aswell and no doubt she would not appreciate all that stress.

[BloodFire's Mum]

Welcome back gang!
I've missed you all!!!
And Finny--we are speculating on when JKR will finish the next HP novel--so far she is a bit over 6 months late and counting (and I thought you felt pretty wizardish last night in the Chat room!).

:notworthy :jawdrop:

[Kristin]

Or more than a year late, depending on when you were first expecting it to be published. When GOF came out, we thought there would be a new one the following year. It's one of those times I really wish we hadn't lost everything in the MI. All those posts of people saying "I can't wait till July 2001." :rolleyes:


I'm putting my money on November 2003.

[Remus]

I reckon (well, desperately hope) it'll be a June/July release (2003 that is). I could hack the waiting if I actually had a date set in my mind to wait for, it just gets annoying when you have all the speculation and boredom at the lack of news.

[Fleurdelacour]

...we are suffocating....

My money's on 2004. I just can't see being sixteen, leaving school, and getting OoP in one year. That's to weird, and wrong. Things like that don't happen... :rolleyes:

[Remus]

Hey, that'd make this (or next, I get confused) year even better. I mean, as if being 16 and leaving school wasn't enough, we could finally be reading OotP ! That'd be so good.

[hwicce]

I heard it was definitely postponed to next year, as she got married and wants some personal time-out ... and who can blame her, she delights us with her lovely books, and we should give her some time for herself.

[Swendula]

True, but we've been told that the book will be out on suchandsuch date several times now, and without much reason for delay except that JKR has writer's block. Or rumors that Scholastic is delaying the book the the second quarter of next year for financial reasons. It's very frustrating.

[ElfTBD]

Well, last I heard was July '03...Bloombury has nothing on thier site except "JKR is happily writing book 5..." blah blah blah...I also heard an interview where she said she was taking her time (and some time off...)

[Monkfish]

I always thought of Harry Potter as a childrens book until a WEEK ago.

I had just finished the last book I bought and was out looking for some more, when I saw the first four books on sale at a discounted price.

I bought all four and gave the first a try last monday.......

I`ve now finished them.......

I have not read any books so quickly (not able to put them down) since LOTR/HOBBIT/SILMARILLION/UNFINISHED TALES)

(Not the adventures of Tom Bombadil!)

:cool:

[amrael]

I put my money in sometime this century... :(

I have stopped waiting for it. I'm just hoping it DOES come sometime and that it turns out to be good enough.


Will try to cheer up babbling here...

[Will Whitfoot]

*cough* Silmarillion *cough*

Maybe her kid will edit her remaining papers when she dies of old age and still hasn't finished OoP. :eek:

Will ducks a hail of toads, magical slugs and owl droppings from irate HP fans.:D

[amrael]

Will!! You have actually cheered me up.


There is a working chance that we might get the books, some time!!

:p

[Monkfish]

:rotfl:

[Remus]

I'd prefer it if all the remaining 3 books came out in the next 5 years, when there's quite a high chance JKR will survive.

[Anarie]

What do you mean "survive"? She's not that old. :)

[Remus]

You don't necessarily have to be old to die

[Anarie]

Are you planning to do it yourself with all the satisfaction of it, or will you keep your hands clean and send some mad-of-too-much-waiting fan?



coz I can volunteer, you know...

[amrael]

If the kid of Ms Rowlings was to follow Will's suggestion, it might not end too badly.


We'd get the remaining books, plus 'Hogwarts, a History', 'The Lost tales of the Marauders', 'Unfinished Death Eater records', 'The Road goes ever on, but always end up in Hogwarts', plus a dozen books showing the early stages of all the rest in assorted degrees of coherence.


Do Basilisks have wings?

:p

[Anarie]

LOL :rotfl:

Does Dobby have pointed ears?

[Fleur]

Originally posted by amrael

Do Basilisks have wings?
:p

LOL! No! But very amusing question ayways.

Is it just me, or does everyone think JK has already HAD her well-earned time off?

I mean, if she's going to write the best childrens books in the world, she has a kind of obligation to keep it up?!

Or is that a bit mean!?

[amrael]

She unwisely obligated herself when she announced that the series would be 7 books long, and that she had the last chapter of the last book written. :eek:

[ElfTBD]

Fleur: definitely NOT mean...I would be quite put out if book 5 didn't come out next year (although, from everything I've read, it more than like will be out next summer)...

as long as she doesn't pull a Jean Auel and wait 12 freakin' years between books!!!!! (I'm not bitter towards Ms. Auel...Nooooooooooooooooooooo [/sarcasm]) :mad:

[Fleurdelacour]

It was on ITV News this evening.

She STILL hasn't finished writing, and we're getting very impatient and fustrated. According to the journalist!

Harry Potter made the news, and it's not the film!

THAT'S A BLOODY FIRST! :D

Still waiting though...

[Will Whitfoot]

Will delurks briefly, looks around, and his jaw drops.
:jawdrop:

It's gone green.

I think Ms Rowling's problem is a lack of other duties (which she does not neglect ;)).

If she had, say, a lot of lectures on Anglo-Saxon to plan, or definitive editions of Sir Gawain to write, she would have lots of opportunities NOT to do those things and work on her masterpiece of fantasy fiction instead...

[Sars]

As a bringer of cutting edge news:

I'm sat here watching the news, and I'm promised a newspiece after the local update about the publishing date of the 5th Harry Potter book. Typing as I hear it, don't ever say I don't provide a service for you people.

;) :D

...

I swear they are purposely putting all the other news first!

...

Right! It was pretty basic, mostly saying that the publishing company have yet to see the finished manuscript, although they assure all of use rabid fans that she hasn't got writers block and it is on the way. But don't expect it until at least 2003.

And hey, there was a reference to the existance of fanfic at the end. Who would have thought.

[Fleur]

Lol! Fanfic rules!

Well, at least this is SOMETHING, I mean, at least she hasn't given up completely.

IIMAGINE - actually think about it, having OotP to read! Wownesssssss!

[ElfTBD]

If you haven't heard yet, I was just over at iharrypotter.net and there's an article that says that JKR is pretty much done with Book 5 and is just doing "tweaking"....and from the article, the book may come out before summer 2003...

yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:clap:

[Monkfish]

J.K. Rowling has book and baby on the way

By Paul Majendie LONDON (Reuters) - J.K. Rowling, creator of teenage wizard and publishing blockbuster Harry Potter, has revealed she is pregnant, and has reassured readers and investors that the next book in the best-selling series is on the way. But they were warned on Friday not to count on an early Christmas present -- there is no fixed date for publication of the fifth book in the wizard saga. The writer said late on Thursday she and her second husband, Neil Murray, would be having a baby next spring. Asked about press speculation on a publication date for the next book, a spokeswoman for the author told Reuters: "There is no firm date and it will only be decided once the manuscript is handed in." "There is no fixed date on anything," she added. Publisher Bloomsbury, which has the publishing rights to the Potter books, said: "The announcement of the publication date will be made as soon as the manuscript is delivered." Industry analysts say it usually takes between three to five months to publish a manuscript, meaning that publication by Christmas is unlikely. The series began in June 1997 with publication of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and continued with a book every year until "The Goblet of Fire" in July 2000. DOUBLE GOOD NEWS Rowling started writing the Potter books as a struggling single mother bringing up her daughter Jessica in Edinburgh. Now she is a millionaire after the tales seized the imagination of children around the world. Speculation about publication of one of the most eagerly awaited books of the year was sparked by an interview with Rowling in the London Times. She was asked if millions of fans could expect a Christmas present. She replied "Possibly" with a deep chuckle. Asked if that could be interpreted as a "Yes", she replied "Maybe." The publishing industry has praised Rowling for introducing a whole new generation of computer and television-oriented children to the pleasures of reading. Rowling now has a double dose of good news to celebrate -- she also won a plagiarism case when a U.S. court kicked out a case against her on Wednesday. Asked if the case had hindered her progress on the fifth Potter book, she told the BBC: "It has affected it obviously. Anyone who's been involved in a court case will know that it's time-consuming, it plays on your mind." "There's a lot of the book done," she told The Children's Newsround programme. "I really am getting there," she said. "I will say that I have a beginning, a middle and an end -- you could read it all the way through and I know a lot of Harry Potter fans will say just to give it to us. But I'm a perfectionist and I want a bit more of a tweak," she said.

[ElfTBD]

thanks monk! :)

[Will Whitfoot]

Here (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-421360,00.html) is the article as it appeared in the UK "Times".

[Fleur]

Tweaking. What is that?

Just GIVE IT TO USSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I seriously cannot stand it anymore.

Can you imagine being JK rowlings baby? Being born into all that fame? wierdness. I can't even being to think what it will be like for him/her

[Cedric]

Tweaking, like changing, ya know, fixing or fiddling with it.

I say take her time, I'm not gonna lose any sleep over not knowing when it's gonna come out, I'll lose sleep when it's about to come out, which I'm sure'll be soon.

-Cedric

[Remus]

I reckon she's building up to a Christmas release (or maybe a bit later) because she seems to be gradually attracting more attention to the new book both via the build up to the film and the revelation she's pregnant.

See, I think if I remain optimistic then maybe it'll happen

[Pilgrim Grey]

I would've thought that they'd try to get the book out around the release of the movie, so people could read the book, like it, then go and see the movie and vice-versa. But that might just be wishful thinking...

[Fleur]

Originally posted by Cedric
Tweaking, like changing, ya know, fixing or fiddling with it.

Yeah I know. I was being sarcastic - or somthing like that ;)

I can feel it getting closer, though. All this Hp stuff in the news.. Feels like it's coming, soon.

If it takes about 4 months to publish it, then it'll probably be in march or hereabouts won't it?

[amrael]

sighs hopefully

I'm beggining to think we'll get it after all...

[Colli]

Anyone think we should make a page-a-day pact of some sort so we don't read it all in one day and spend the next 3 years wishing for another book? ;)

Everyone starts throwing dirty looks at Colli.

Ok, ok, nevermind.

[amrael]

I see some flaws in your proposal, Colli.


1) I don't see how we could manage, mainly because...

2) I want to read it fast to avoid having the end spoiled by somebody's careless comments, and...

3) I want to turn the book inside out here, and discuss it from every possible angle.


Nice try, though.


:)

[Remus]

Hmm, I always get to the stage when I read the books where I just can't stop reading it, and I would never have the discilpline enough to do that, it would be nice if it were possible though.

[Colli]

:D It'd be nice in a perfect world.

But I'll probably have it read in 4 or 5 hours I'd say. :)

Then I'll get on here and dissect my opinions and go read it again.

And again and again and again, until I can either :swoon: no more or until I'm at the point that we're at with GoF and I literally HAVE no more ideas. :trout: <--Jo.

How dare she get married and pregnant... ;)

[Fleur]

I reckon it took me arounf 10 hours to read GoF.

I AM going to try and space it out a BIT more than I did last time round. I thin ill enjoy it more


MAybe

[Remus]

I'm not. I'll just lock myself in my room and read it right until the end.