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[Pippin]

No: HPFGUIDX 180275

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Gretchen Ting" <2syf010 at ...> 
wrote:
> Now, would JKR have listened? That is another issue. I personally
> believe JKR made a mistake trying to cram everything she did into
> DH. Why the rush? To keep to some proclamation she made that
> there would be only 7 books? I hope not.

Pippin Fowler:
I suppose we have 7 books because students attend Hogwarts for 7 years. 
Yet events could have caused Hogwarts to close for a year, allowing at 
least one more book. No telling how much external pressure was heaped 
upon our author during the writing of the later books, but I'd guess it 
was crushing at times. JKR mentions on her website that the mistake in 
the order of the Priori Incantatem of Voldemort's wand was due to a 
rushing editor's mistake that JKR didn't correct.

PF