Rumours denied - the next books

[Ali]

No: HPFGUIDX 45639

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Heidi wrote in response to Felicia about the recent interest in the 
registered "Harry Potter and the.." :-

 These applications were filed in April of 2000, before the title for
 Goblet of Fire was even finalized. They vested to registration in 
2001.
We've known about this for coming on three years, and I can't see how
 any comments from WB or anyone else at this point have any relevance 
to anything. I don't know why this is news, except that perhaps some 
idiot at The Scotsman finally discovered the trademark search 
capabilities of  the UK Patent & Trademark Office. We at The Leaky 
Cauldron reported on  this back in August, 2001.
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> Furthermore, the BBC has debunked the musings of the various British
> papers (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2345429.stm) and 
quotes > Very Nice Guy Neil Blair, in JKR's agent's office, as 
saying "There is  absolutely no truth in the story that either there 
is going to be an eighth book in the series or that these titles are 
genuine title for the sixth and seventh books." 

JKR also gave a personalised interview of BBC's "Newsround" tonight 
where she again stated that the titles were not those of 6th and 7th 
books: nobody, not even her family no the titles of the next books.

Ali

Who is still convinced that the release date for OoP will first be 
announced on Newsround.
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