Book Lengths (Was Re: Harry's Knowlege of Lord Voldemort - SS- post 1)

[kathy kulesza]

No: HPFGUIDX 161136

Anne Squires quoted JKR:

JKR: "There are bits of all six books that I would go back and tighten
up. My feeling is that Phoenix is overlong, but I challenge anyone to
find the obvious place to cut. There are places that I would prune now
looking back, but they wouldn't add up to a hugely reduced book,
because my feeling is you need what's in there. You need what's in
there if I'm going to play fair for the reader in the resolution in
Book 7. One of the reasons Phoenix is so long is that I had to move
Harry around a lot, physically. There were places he had to go he had
never been before, and that took time - to get him there, to get him
away. That was the longest non-Hogwarts stretch in any of the books,
and that's really what bumps up the length. I'm trying to think of
specifics, it's hard."



kathy kulesza:

I'm surprised JK Rowling thought Order of the Phoenix was too long. It's my favorite of all the books and I wouldn't change anything. I thought Goblet of Fire was too long and the House Elf subplot could have been eliminated without changing the story.