EW & CoS // OotP ETA June '03

[Petra Pan]

Wow, Entertainment Weekly got some great pictures...a perk for being
a sister company to Warner Bros. I suppose.  There seems to be words
etched into the arch of the window behind Snape...can anyone decipher
them?

Is this on the website?  Item #6 on Jim Mullen's HotSheet (should be
read with several grains of salt): "J.K. Rowling hasn't finished book
5 in time for this summer's anticipated release.  The good news is
that she has only 800 pages to go."  There is a cute little cartoon
of a stressed out looking Harry in front of a laptop.

--- "Felicia Rickmann" <feliciarickmann at d...>:
> [ --- yours truly: ] 
> > Also mentioned: "...Rowling has told her publishers she
> > needs more time to finish [OotP], prompting Scholastic to
> > assure antsy shareholders they can expect the book by June
> > 2003."
> >
> > That's more than a year away!!!
> >
> > Petra
> 
> A recent BBC report linked I think to the DVD release (although I 
> MIGHT be wrong there) said it was definitely a 2002 release - and
> that was from the publisher.

Perhaps you can be so kind as to provide the date of the report you
cite.  Raising false hope for the desperately obsessed <hand
a-raised> could be considered cruel, you know. <wink> But I'll be
happy to partake in whatever lone spring of hope you can provide
because I haven't been able to find any others.

All I've been able to locate are reports from other sources
indicating a 2003 release for OotP:

- Boston Globe
NEXT `POTTER' DELAYED, BUT SPELL HASN'T WORN OFF
Published on May 28, 2002.  Author(s): David Mehegan, Globe Staff

"That noise you've been hearing in the last 10 days is the sound of
millions of crests falling all over the world. The reason: Volume 5
of British author J.K. Rowling's fantastically popular Harry Potter
children's books will not be published this summer, as expected...

...'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' was expected to be
published in July.  But a spokeswoman for Bloomsbury...said the book
will probably not be published before 2003."

- The Washington Post, Monday, May 27, 2002; Page C14
Where's Harry? Rowling's Fans Wonder About Book 5
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14697-2002May26.html

"Like millions of kids (and adults) around the world, Emma and Tamika
each year sped through the Harry Potter book Rowling cranked out,
ending with 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' in July 2000.

But then, it seems, Rowling's cauldron went dry.

If Rowling had kept up her old pace, Book 5 would have been out last
July. Then, it was widely expected to be ready this summer. Now fans
will be lucky to see Book 5 by the end of 2002.

According to Judy Corman of Scholastic, 'Potter's' U.S. publisher,
the book will be published sometime between now and June 2003.  No,
she says, Rowling has not been afflicted with writer's block."

> I have decided to travel the world until the book comes out -
Orkney 
> first - New York second.
> 
> Felicia

Oooh!  If you DO travel the globe, you can start a "It's a Harry
Potter World" collection.  :)  Mine is only three countries strong so
far and started because I've been lucky enough to do some world
traveling lately (on other people's galleons) and had picked up the
UK editions when I was in Edinburgh.  Then, since I already have the
US and UK versions, the only ones available in English that I know
of, I bought another set on my last trip abroad...am reading them in
one hand with a dictionary in the other.

At the rate I'm going, by the time I finish my "new" HP books, JKR
will probably have finished writing the 7th book...and THAT is saying
a lot!

Petra
a
n   :) who's pretty sure she won't be able to learn any more new
languages at this late stage without the omigod-midterm's-next-week incentive

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