JKR on eighth book (Was Re: Will Harry Die?)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 88665

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Andrew" <baseball_07_05 at y...> 
wrote:

Andrew:
> There is a quote that I read which definately leaves the 
possibility 
> of more books open. The main reason for her saying it would end at 
> seven is that she already had the entire idea worked out. She 
didn't 
> have every book written, but she did have an idea of what she 
wanted 
> to happen. If anyone finds the quote that left open the idea for an 
> 8th book , can they please post it becuase I can not seem to find 
it 
> again.

Geoff:
Contrary to your suggestion above, I have tracked this down in the 
Quick Quotes setion of the Lexicon.....


"CBBC Newsround Online

21 October 2002

There will NOT be an eighth Potter Book

By Lizo Mzimba

JK Rowling and her agents have categorically denied that an eighth 
Harry Potter adventure is planned. Reports in UK newspapers on Sunday 
and Monday had claimed that these were the titles for the remaining 
two Harry Potter adventures and a "secret" eighth book:
Harry Potter and The Pyramids of Furmat
Harry Potter and the Chariots of Light
Harry Potter and The Alchemist's Cell 

But JK Rowling, speaking from Edinburgh, has exclusively told 
Newsround: "No one, literally no one, not in my family or anybody, 
knows the titles to Book Six or Seven. "And I'm going to keep it that 
way for now." 

No eighth adventure

And a spokesman from the Christopher Little Literary Agency confirmed 
that the author is only planning seven books. "There is absolutely no 
truth in reports that JK Rowling is planning an eighth Harry Potter 
adventure, or that these are the titles of the remaining books to be 
published." 

How did the rumours start?

The false titles seem to have emerged in early 2000. Someone in 
America - we don't know who - appears to have made up the three names 
and registered them along with Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire. 
(At that time, the fourth book hadn't been published and the title 
was still a secret). Later in 2000, all four titles were transferred 
to Warner Bros - although it's not clear why this happened. 

Seven years at Hogwarts

The misunderstanding that these were the names of the new Harry 
Potter books took place when journalists checked what names were 
owned by Warner Bros. Those journalists assumed (wrongly) that these 
must be unpublished titles. JK Rowling has said in the past that the 
whole Harry Potter saga fits neatly into seven books, one for each of 
Harry's years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. 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. At the moment JK Rowling is putting the 
finishing touches to the fifth book Harry Potter and The Order of The 
Phoenix. The film of Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets will be 
released next month."