Prediction: number of pages in books 6 and 7

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 91924

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

Neri:
> Checking my US editions, these are the number of pages in each of 
the 
> books:
> 
> SS: 309 pages
> CoS: 341 pages
> PoA: 435 pages
> GoF: 734 pages
> OotP: 870 pages
> 
> Simple linear extrapolation yields:
> 
> Book 6: 993 pages
> Book 7: 1144 pages
> 
> I've already started weights training 8-)
> 

<big snip>

Geoff:
Despite the fascinating Maths in this post, my only thought is that I 
am sure that it was reported, at the time of the publication of 
OOTP,  that Book 6 would be a fair bit shorter.... was it from JKR as 
source or is my imagination on overdrive??