Title Revelation not a Mistake

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 4558

...See -- all we have to do is get a cute little kid to ask JKR our most
pressing questions.  Then we'll get answers!...


Monday October 23 6:11 PM ET
Rowling Says Revealing Book Title Not a Mistake

TORONTO (Reuters) - J.K. Rowling (news - web sites), author of the
extraordinarily popular Harry Potter (news - web sites) children's books
said on Monday that revealing the title of her next book, ``Harry Potter and
the Order of the Phoenix,'' to a child in New York last week was not a
mistake.

"I didn't expect to do it now at all, but I did say after ''Goblet of Fire''
that I wouldn't keep it a secret," said Rowling, who was in Toronto for the
International Festival of Authors.

    Rowling added that she could not handle the pressure of keeping such a
big secret and she did not want people to sift through her garbage.

    ``I didn't have plans to say it just now. I thought I would at some
point but then there was this really, really cute little boy who asked and I
thought, oh, he'd look so happy if I told him,'' she said.

    The British-born, single mother who wrote the first Harry Potter novel
because she could not afford to heat her apartment said she ``only decided a
couple of weeks ago what the title was going to be.''

    Other details of the book were scant, although Rowling did say at a
press conference on Sunday that the fifth Harry Potter book should be
shorter than number four.

    Rowling is in Toronto as part of the annual authors festival. She will
read at the city's 50,000-seat SkyDome stadium on Tuesday with Canadian
authors Kenneth Oppel and Tim Wynne-Jones. The event may prove to be
Rowling's largest event to date, with the number of ticket sold well into
five figures.

    The event could herald Rowling's entry into the Guinness Book of Records
for the largest paid audience for an author's reading.

    Rowling expressed her fear of speaking in front of such a large crowd,
insisting she's ``not the Rolling Stones.''

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