[HPforGrownups] Re: Time Period in Book 7

[summers.65 at osu.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 2223

> Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <>
>
>>JKR: "There will be seven books.  One for each of his years at
>> Hogwarts and he'll turn 17 at the start of book 7."
>
>Yes but how old will he be at the end of book 7? There is no way I
>can interpret the above to mean that the end of the last book
>absolutely positively most be on graduation day and not one bit
>later. Why would she wish to impose such a restriction on herself? I
>can't see her forcing a plot line to an unnatural premature ending
>just so last book covers only one year like the previous 6. Obviously
>book 7 being the last will have things about it that are different
>from the other 6.
>
>
I don't know why it being the last book means it will necessarily
different.  I also don't know why you're so invested in this 19-year-old
figure, it seems only equally as likely or unlikely as any other theory
that has been proposed.  If anything a little less likely, as I don't think
JKR will wish to deviate from her format.

Lori


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