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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23 at s...> 
wrote:
> 
> Snip> This is a story that I believe JKR feels "needs telling."  THAT'S 
> what she's working on, and while--who knows?--she might think about 
> what all these millions of people are going to think about X or 
> write about Y, I just believe she really means it when she says 
> she's writing this story for herself.  So much of the essentials 
> were already plotted out when she got SS/PS published, and she had 
> no inkling of the following she would acrue.  
> 
> I have no doubt that mhbbobbin is correct that there will be some 
> who won't be pleased with the outcome.  But I really don't think she 
> cares *that* much.  From the things that she's said [including how 
> she feels about Book 6--how much she's enjoying it], I don't think 
> she's seeing this as drudgery at this point.  I really think she 
> wants to tell this story.
> 
> JMHO
> Siriusly Snapey Susan

Sue:

Quite right! (Also MHO!)

And isn't this what makes the best novels so very good? That the author is essentially 
writing for him/herself, because it's a story they need to get out of them? This one cares 
about her story and her characters and she is going to write the story till it's told. She has 
told her fans, in advance, that there will be seven books, no more, no less, and that it's 
been planned out since the start. It's not going to be re-written because someone 
complains. And IMHO, the series will become a classic, not a fad.