Most premature question of the year: So when is Book 7 coming out?

[Richard Jones]

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My reasoning is this: it takes JKR two or three years to finish a 
book.  So she should be done with Book 7 sometime between Summer 2007 
and Summer 2008.  

But there are two things that will effect when Book 7 is actually 
released.

First, JKR might get done faster than usual since she knows what she 
is going to say and may want to get it over with so that she can 
start her post-HP writing.  (On the other hand, she may be reluctant 
to finally end what has to be the greatest professional experience of 
her life-time and so she may revise the manuscript over and over and 
therefore not be done until later.)

Second, her publishers and Warner Brothers will probably want to 
coordinate the publishing with the release the movies so that a movie 
and the book don't come out at the same time — I think they will them 
want to come out at different times so that we won't split our focus 
and they won't have competing advertising campaigns.  The HP movies 
take about 18 months to complete — so the OOTP movie should come out 
in Summer 2007 and HBP in Winter 2008.  So I'm thinking the release 
of Book 7 should be well after the OOTP movie and well before the HBP 
movie.

So putting this all together, if JKR does finish Book 7 within the 
next two years, I bet Book 7 comes out either at the Winter Solstice 
in 2007 or at the Summer Solstice 2008.

So we have a long wait to get pondering the final outcome.

Richard Jones