The End Draws Near. Or Does it?

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock" <erebstock at ...> wrote:

Eileen:
> Do you think that HP Book VII is the end of the Potterverse?

> The more I think about it, the more I wonder. I *do* believe JKR's
> assertion that she isn't going to write more books focused on Harry, and
> she isn't planning on writing prequels about James and Lily at Hogwarts.
> I also know she wants to write other stuff, outside the Potterverse. 

> But abandoning the Potterverse entirely? After all the work she pours
> into it? It seems to me that she's hooked on it. A lot of the stuff on
> her website and in interviews isn't important to the books at all, but
> she just enjoys playing about in that world. Now, I doubt she's planning
> anything like this, but I wouldn't be surprised if after Book VII is
> finished with, she revisits this magical world from some other angle
> down the road. Perhaps stuff that interests her, but was too far off
> Harry's path to write. There's plenty of such stuff we already know
> about, that had to be cut for Harry's behalf.
 
> I'm angling for Theodore Nott's story, of course, but I think the idea
> in general holds true. "There are many stories between the lines."

Geoff:
I have seen it rumoured that she might write an Encyclopaedia of HP which might tie up a 
few loose ends rather å la Tolkien Appendices.

That would keep her - and us - going for a good while.