what are the chances...

[scoutmom21113]

No: HPFGUIDX 91519

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> 
wrote:
> > Carol:
> > For the record, I quite agree that she won't have spin-offs. I 
was
> > answering the second part of Lisa's question (snipped here) 
about 
> who
> > I would like her to write about if she did. OTOH, since she's 
> written
> > FB and the book on quidditch (title escapes me), there's some 
hope
> > that she'll actually write "Hogwarts: A History." If she does, 
it'll
> > have a built-in market.
> > 
> > But again, I was just having fun with the question of who I'd 
*like*
> > to see her write about if she told the life story of another 
> character
> > (or, in an even more unlikely event, retold the whole series from
> > another perspective).
> 
> Fun is what we're here for.  Snape's story would be a natural; 
> Dumbledore's would, too.
> 
> "Hogwarts, a History" would be the natural to go along with 
Quidditch 
> Thorough the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

I agree that "Hogwarts, a History" would be fun reading (unless it 
was written by Professor Binns <g>) but it doesn't seem likely.  A 
report from CBBC Newsround from October 2002 states: 

"And if she ever did write an eighth book, then it wouldn't be 
another adventure, but a book for charity which would be the 
encyclopedia of the Harry Potter world."

...which would hopefully answer all those niggling questions we have 
about "why didn't...?" and "who did...?"

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/2002/1002-
newsround-mzimba.html

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