Prediction: number of pages in books 6 and 7

[nkafkafi]

No: HPFGUIDX 91927

> 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??

Neri:
I vaguely seem to remember something similar, but in my memory this 
interview was shortly after GoF. The reporter complained about the 
length of GoF and JKR told him that Book 5 (we didn't know its name 
then) will be slightly shorter than GoF...

I fear the exponential growth pattern is not a coincidence. If in 
each book JKR adds about the same number of new characters, the 
number of possible relationships (not necessarily romantic, but still 
need to be described) grows faster than this. That is, between 2 
characters you have only 1 relationship. Between 3 characters you 
have 3 ships, between 4 characters you have 6 ships and between 5 
characters <grope for a pen and paper> 10 ships.  After Book 6 we 
might need a whole discussion group just for shipping. And leaving 
any character out is such a pity. I personally think OotP was too 
long, but this doesn't stop me from being miffed at JKR for leaving 
Myrtle out of it.

Neri