Just where is JKR getting her info from?/Book 6 progress

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 115322

Macfotuk said;
"P.S. It has been suggested that I am wrong in saying that 
Dumbledore's last letter was the one he left on the doorstep with 
baby Harry, and that he has sent a letter since then concerning 
Harry's illegal flight to school. However, both Dumbledore and I 
differentiate between letters sent to the Dursleys as a couple, and 
messages directed to Petunia ALONE. And that's my final word on the 
subject - though I doubt it will be yours :)" 

DuffyPoo:
I'd say she's covering another error here.  Remember, when that first book was published JKR had no idea how well scrutinized it would be.  Just like it is Marcus Flint's stupidity, not her error, that kept him in Hogwarts an extra year.

Macfotuk said:
"Well, (hoping I'm typing clearly since it gives me *such* a thrill 
to imagine that maybe, just maybe the great woman herself might 
*really* be watching), ... she hasn't yet 'done' HPfGU at her fan 
sites section, so do we figure at all? "

DuffyPoo:
I often wondered if she lurked here, too.  However, during the Edinburgh book thingy she said one of the questions she'd never been asked is why DD didn't kill LV when he had the chance in the MoM.  We had JUST discussed that very issue on this list.  So, while it may be true that we 'didn't ask her' the question was still out there.

Macfotuk said:
"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?"

DuffyPoo:
My dear Husband has told me for some time not to get too attached to these books as the last two may never make it to the store shelves.  She's got all the money she and her children, probably her children's children could ever want there is no real pressing need to 'go to press' on the rest.  I also have L.M. Montgomery's (Anne of Green Gables author) words in my head about how very much she hated writing the last few books because she wanted to get on to something else but fans kept pressing her for 'more Anne."





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