Book Six : Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince [merged]

Started by Lianslo156 pages

^thats very interesting news!

As for Draco...somethings gotta happen b/w him and harry in the end...some sort of connection, but on the same token i don't think they're gunna end up friends or anything.

well sed...

Originally posted by Broadway22
YES J.K. Rowling is writing an eighth book and giving all proceeds to charity. I read it in the newspaper, so depending on how much you want to believe... .

I heard she's thinking about it, but its not for sure yet

yeah, it was taken out of context in an interview; she said she was thinking about making a Harry Potter encyclopedia with all proceeds to charity.

It's for sure.

ok people im back ive been gone 2 week and there at least 20 pages to read i quite agree with lianslo about the connection thing with harry and draco

😄

Do you really think that there's going to be a connection in this book already? If anything, I'd think that it would be in the last book... but that also means a lot of other stuff happening in the last book....😖

i dunno ...

yeah, i didn't necessarily mean it had to happen in the 6th book...just sometime, being that they are so at odds, theres gotta be some type of resolution...even if it isn't a happy ending for them...

and i agree that book 7 is gunna be huge! 🙂 She practically said so on her site anyways, that she's gunna be so sad to see the series ending, that she wont wanna stop writing! 🙂 and so much has gotta happen to end such an awesome series. but hey...i'm not opposed to that!

ok, here's some hints from her latest interview:

K Rowling gave fans some tantalising titbits about the future Potter books at her reading at the Edinburgh Children's Book Festival on Sunday.

She said she was well into writing book six. She said she was "just over halfway through it". She added it was her favourite book so far.

Click here to see pix from the JK reading

"Of course I am the only one who has read it and I think it's rather good."

Two key questions

She did not give much away about book six, which will be called Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but she said a lot of questions will be answered in it.

She also revealed there were two key questions about the whole plot that she had never been asked.

The first is Why didn't Voldemort die when he tried to kill Harry? JK said that in the end of book four, Voldemort had said he had taken various steps against dying, but we should be wondering exactly what he did.

Dumbledore knows more!

The second question is Why didn't Dumbledore try to kill Voldemort in that scene at the end of book five?

Dumbledore gave a kind of reason to Voldemort but it's not the real answer, and that Dumbledore knows something more.

JK said if we are wondering about the overall plot, we should be concentrating on those two questions.

Squib?

She also tantalisingly answered a question about Aunt Petunia. When asked, JK said no, Petunia is not a squib, as she is muggle-born, but...... and left the sentence hanging.

She said we will find out a bit more about her in the other books and that there's more to Petunia than meets the eye!

She also revealed some more general snippets of information, including:

* Aberforth Dumbledore is the barman in the Hog's Head
* Dumbledore's patronus is a phoenix
* Grawp will be more controllable in the sixth book
* We will see a bit more of Rita Skeeter
* There will be a new character called McLagan
* Harry does NOT have a godmother

wow thanks for the update E.B!

Well, Petunia isn't a squib because her background had no magical blood. McLagan....wonder what part he'll play.... thanks a lot EB!

kewl... 🙂

Anything else you want to say ladygrim? 😛

"just over half-way through" ?!?!?!?! HOW MUCH LONGER JK?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

and what is the significance of "Aberforth Dumbledore is the barman in the Hog's Head"????

well thats dumbledores brother. . . he might have a part to play. .

?? when did it say his bro was the barman?

JK announced it in the latest interview I guess.

McLagan could be the new defence against the dark arts teacher