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[GulPlum]

No: HPFGUIDX 41544

serenadust wrote, in a long thread of people asking more or less the 
same thing regarding my recent mention of an interview in which JKR 
mentions the "eighth book" and her preference for including a 
glossary rather than repeating previous plot details:

> > GulPlum, when you do get some time (or if anyone 
> Hi Amy, I found that by going to the Goat Pen and searching under 
> the word "encyclopedia" you come up with a list of sites. The first 
> one is an Ananova site with an interview dated 12/24/01, in which 
> JKR speaks of the "eighth book".  The url is 
> www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_480162.html although if you 
> click on that, you still have to find the interview date for some 
> reason.  This interview also seems to be the one stating that Harry 
> will take a further interest in Hermione in future books.  IIRC 
that 
> portion was de-bunked, though, so I hope that at least the eighth 
> book part is accurate although at this point I'd happily settle for 
> book 5 sometime before the end of the decade.

There were plenty of stories along those lines at the time, including 
on the BBC site, Yahoo and several others.

I would like to refresh everyone's memories about the circumstances: 
the BBC put out a press release in mid-December with a few tidbits 
from their forthcoming "Omnibus" special about JKR (which was 
transmitted on 28th December, and later shown on the A&E Network in 
the USA). Several news media put one and one together from the press 
release and made three (ie sentences to the effect of: "Harry and Ron 
will get interested in girls" and "Hermione lightens up" were made to 
mean that "Harry would get interested in Hermione").

Perhaps our friendly Goat (and a few other people maintaining lists 
of links to interviews) could add a proviso when mentioning that 
link...

In any case, that is interview in which JKR talked about the matters 
under debate here (I mentioned a second source - I *think* it was a 
British Sunday magazine interview around the same time; this might in 
fact have been culled from the TV programme).

I must admit that I find it a bit strange that 7 months down the 
line, nobody, but nobody, has done a complete transcript of the 
programme and put it online. I know there are a few sites with 
pictures of *that* page from JKR's notebook, but that's not the only 
thing worthy of note in that programme! I'd do such a transcript 
myself, if I only had a copy (my VCR wasn't working that night and 
the programme's never been repeated here in the UK).

P.S. It's quite strange - the TV is currently showing a repeat of a 
November chat show, in which Robbie Coltrane is talking about 
HP&PS "which came out yesterday"). :-)

-- 
GulPlum AKA Richard, UK