July 31 2007

[antoshachekhonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 146429

> Ceridwen:
> > And, I like the proposed date.  Wouldn't it be fitting?
> 
> Geoff:
> Ah, Harry's 27th birthday. He becomes a perfect cube for the third 
> time on that day :-)
> 
> I think I would prefer 31/07/06 personally.....
>

Antosha:

Well, seeing that she's just started writing the book, and it'll take
months just to chop up the TREES to print this next one on, I think
this July is out! ;-)

Not to get all pragmatic or anything, but I promise you, the book will
either come out around US Memorial Day or US Labor Day, since those
are the kick-offs for the two largest book-buying seasons, not just in
the US, but in the UK and most of the rest of the northern hemisphere.
Publishers don't tend to launch books mid-summer, because people will
already have done their summer-reading purchasing, and aren't yet
buying for school and the holidays. HBP was an unusually LATE launch.

But I do like the symbolism. :-)

(My vote, btw, is that book 7 will come out in June of 2007, and the
OotP film will hit the theatres that November. A year to look forward
too, even if the dates aren't particularly resonant!)