Book 6 progress

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There have been significant updates at jkrowling.com recently. Are 
we to take this as meaning that like many of us (speaking only for 
myself here you understand), she is procrastinating from the task in 
hand and so has much yet to write on H-BP?

Or alternatively has she finished the first draft? Twenty chapters 
(no less) proof-read which would mean 'done' for books 1-3, but just 
about only half way through for books 4 and 5.

Lastly, she may just be feeling that she is enjoying the dialogue 
with fans through the web site and so is being caught up a little. 
She strikes me as being nearly as obsessive as some of the rest of 
us - you don't get a score below 100 on expert level of minesweeper 
without a LOT of practise - to say nothing of a very rare itellect, 
which, of course, we know she has from the quality of her writing. 

Perhaps in that case we should be less demanding in the hope she'll 
complete what we really want and need her to give us, i.e. book 6. 
Can't be easy, what with being pregnant and no pressing need 
financially or possibly otherwise for a deadline. That and finally 
having found what sounds like contentment: I think it's Mona's law 
in the Tales of the City book series by Armistead Maupin (which I 
also love and re-read frequently) that states that "You can have a 
hot lover, a hot job and a hot apartment, but you can't have all 
three at the same time." Seems JKR has managed to beat the odds so 
why wouldn't she take time to wallow in that?

This from a scientist whose latest paper has been in 'near final 
form' for months now and is *still* procrastinating on the no doubt 
short (once it gets going!) task of finishing it to submit it for 
publication.