Why now?

[snow15145]

No: HPFGUIDX 111032

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mochajava13" 
<mochajava13 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith 
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> > JKR seems to be giving us a lot of information and hints lately.
> > 
> > I wonder why?
> > 
> > Why now, when the sixth book is approaching completion?
> > Kneasy
> 
> I think you just answered your own question.  Book six is probably 
> very close to completion, so she has more time to do other things, 
> such as promote the new book.  Honestly, she really hasn't 
disclosed 
> anything new.  We now know Ginny's full name and that we'll see a 
> new minister at some point in the series (which could be at the 
very 
> end of book seven).  We know the name of book six and we've got 
> about one sentence of character description.  That's not a lot of 
> information!  I think she's getting ready to send book six off to 
> the editors, probably within the next couple of months. 
> Sarah

Snow:

I agree with you Sarah! I became a bit suspicious about the book 
being almost completed ever since the World Day chat back in March 
when JKR was asked when the 6th book would be released and she 
replied, "
that's down to my publishers". My suspicions became more 
intense when JKR answered questions at the Edinburgh Festival, such 
as: 

Out of all your books, which one is your favourite?

"I would like to say that it is probably Harry Potter and the 
Prisoner of Azkaban, although at the moment-it is unfair of me to say 
it-Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is my favourite book. 
Sorry, I am the only one who has read it and I think it is rather 
good. I am normally like this when I write a book. Usually when I am 
just over halfway I normally love it, but by the time I finish it I 
completely despise it and think it is worthless rubbish. At the 
moment, I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in 
the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered
"

She says book 6 is her favorite and she has already read it, not read 
it so far, but read it and feels it is rather good.  She says that 
she usually only feels that she loves it midway through but not the 
case this time because the ending to this sentence says that when she 
is finished she ends up despising it and feeling it is worthless. If 
she felt book 6 might end up the way she had felt about her previous 
books that she is comparing, that is worthless by the end, why would 
she make such an acute evaluation of book 6 in the manner she has
 
unless this book was done or very near. Very suspicious to me but 
then I ask myself why if she is done with the book has she not 
released it? One of the last questions asked of her has a bit of the 
possible answer:

What will the seventh book be called?


"But I am not going to tell you, I'm sorry. You have no idea of the 
trouble that I would be in if I did. My agent would have me hunted 
down and killed, so I am not going to say."

What kind of trouble would she be in? If she can't tell anyone what 
the name of book seven is because she would be in trouble then maybe 
she can't release book six for the same type of reason. When JKR 
asked to have no time restraints in finishing the fifth book her 
publishers may have received the same allowance in releasing the 
books. Look at this quote about the release of the 5th book from BBC 
News June 2003:

JEREMY PAXMAN: So you didn't have writer's block. The reason this 
book has been - what three years.... Three years since the last one 
isn't it? Why has it taken so long? 
JK ROWLING: Well it hasn't. 
JEREMY PAXMAN: Huh? 
JK ROWLING: Well it hasn't. The book didn't take that long.
The questioning changed course after this answer. It is most 
certainly up to JKR's "publishers" to actually release the golden 
egg. Look at it from a publisher's point of view; in the time between 
her books, book sales go up immensely. If the publishers are in 
control of the sale of the book they would wait until sales start to 
slack off before hitting the public again with what is an enormous 
and immediate profit for them. 

Why would a woman whose utmost priority are her children, and then 
her book, involve herself in a web site that contains enough 
information to fill a book itself
 unless she is attempting 
graciously to compromise for the lack of book 6's release because her 
publishers have not given permission for releasing it.


Just my opinion
Snow