Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
 

wooohooo

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/book....ap/index.html

I really wish there was a release date

I was really hoping for Harry Pottre and the Return of the King. Oh well. I;'m sure this is very exciting news for all the Harry Potter fans around these parts. Congrats to you.

This is horrible news, hearing the title just makes me want the last book even more. This thing cannot come out soon enough.

Interesting Title.... HURRY UP AND WRITE WOMAN!

Who was the Half blood prince?

I think she should have released the name as "Harry Potter Dies" and see how the media whirlwind went.

I'm glad she's working on it and moving along. I only hope it lives up to all the expectations everyone has for it. She's been pretty devoted to her vision all along, and as we know, she doesn't necessarily play by all the standard rules of pop literature.

It's Professor Snape. Severus Snape was the son of Eileen Prince and a Muggle named Tobias Snape. 'Half-blood' refered to his parentage, and 'Prince' was his mother's maiden name.

Oh yeah! He wrote in the potions book.....
I wanna see a squib do some magic.

Damn right! She should be in her office, burning the midnight oil finishing the damn thing. Not sitting around giving bloody press conferences.

Is the new book going to come out before the movie?

I think it would be in her best interest to have the book come out shortly after movie 5. What do I know? She has all of us by the balls and could well make us wait a year or more.

I actually surprised it doesn't look like it'll be out on July 7th, 2007 given the significance of the number "7" in the Potter mythos. Fans will know what I speak of.

Im not surprised......I think releasing the new book and the new movie on the same day would not be the best of ideas

While many of the other titles have had a nice ring to them, this one hurts. It doesn't get any love trying to roll off the tongue and "deathly" is a strange word. It's much more often used as an adverb (deathly afraid), whereas here she seems to want to use it as an adjective. Also, "hallow" is usually a verb, which means that "the [anything] hallow" is total gibberish. Color me confused. Maybe it's supposed to be "Deathly Hollow"? Does "hallow" have a meaning as a noun that dictionary.com is hiding from me? "Half Blood Prince", "Goblet of Fire", "Chamber of Secrets" are all much better.

She needs to get this last book out so I can read the series already. I've watched the movies on the advice and pleading of my girlfriend and found them sufficiently entertaining. I refuse to not be able to read the books straight, though, so I'm waiting for her to finish up before I delve in.

Perhaps her success has given her some license, but she's got quite the attitude and ego when it comes to what she's doing. I await, skeptical.

I agree. The title is a major disappointment.

If you enjoy the movies the books will floor you. While the movies have been very well done, they pale significantly when compared to the books.

Oh dang....I forgot the movie's out that day. Shows what kind of a philistine I am!

The movie comes out July 13th. If the released the book July 7th it could do wonders for the box office.

perhapes Hallows refers to all hallows eve?

After some thought, the title got me confused as well. While all the previous titles (after hearing them for the first time) left you going 'oooh-aaah', this one left me going 'huh?' :confused:

Hopefully as time goes on and she gets more written she'll let some more about the book slip at the press conferences she seems to be so fond of.

Very disappointing. A school child could have come up with a better title.

****UPDATE****

I have just returned from Borders. The very same one where Pan and I met I might add.

There I reserved my cupy of Book 7.

They said there is a release month. July 2007.
No date just yet.

Also, it is the general consensus that everyone hates the title.

I like the title. It fits the series' end. Nothing overboard and nothing too cheesy. By the way, I'm locking myself in a padded cell and reading the last book untouched from the world until I'm done. I had the ending of the last book ruined for me, and I had the fucking thing on opening day and was over halfway done before the first day was over. Too many assholes that have Internet access to remain untouched by the spoiler dicks. If you don't want the last book ruined, I suggest not looking at the TV or Internet until you're done with the book because the last book's ending was PLASTERED on every website and TV station for a month after it released. If you know the ending of HBP then it ruins the whole fucking book.

publish date for the new book

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movi....ap/index.html

W00T!!

I can't wait! I doubt I'll be able to pre-order it locally yet, but I'll definitely be on the lookout for it.

Thanks for the update, Shani.

The countdown has begun :thumbsup:

I couldn't be any more excited! :D

I pre-ordered my copy a month ago... *marks calendar* BRING IT!!!!!!!!!

It will take extreme control to not read the ending first......:hyper: This is the most exciting one! For the 2 characters that die....I vote Snape and Neville. :hyper:

I cast my vote for Voldy and Snape... eventhough I adore Snape.

I just will not be able to stand it if Snape dies

I would be alright with Snape biting the dust if it proves that he is a good guy and he dies saving someone who simply must live to kill Moldy Voldy.

I think there is no way that Snape is actually a bad guy. I refuse to believe it.

I hope every character in the book dies. That way other authors can't write knock off books about Neville Longbottom or Luna Lovegood or Harry Potter's relatives, the Dursleys. It all should go down in a huge wizard battle, or each character should get killed by a ninja pirate wizard.

This is a beautiful and I fully support it for a wide number of reasons. Hopefully she took your advice.

13 days...

and as a side note,

3 days till the movie comes out...

Incase anyone cares, there's an ebook of Deathly Hallows available now if you know where to look :)

Actually, I always thought the best ending (movie and book) would be to fade to JK tucking "her children" in and saying goodnight....... and show that it was just a bedtime story.

After all HP was just a bedtime story she made up and had decided to write down so as not to forget.

The movie you could do it obviously visual.... the book... you do it just at the ending climax... just when everyone is about to wage death and war and so on...... and you just listen to everyone yell how cheap an ending, on something you created and was in charge of where it went.

But noone except me and my twisted thinking would find that ending to be a great one.

i found it, but can't even corrobrate that it's the real deal until the real deal comes out.

I'm gonna go get it from a local bookstore at a midnight opening.

As for how its gonna go down... well, I have no idea so I hope this is in no way taken as a spoile... but a great evil cannot be defeated without paying a great price.

some could argue that the great price was already paid in ending of book 6.

I suppose they might... but I wouldnt buy it. The ending of book 6 was standard. It was necessary to enable an understanding that this was not a battle that could be fought within the boundries of the safe world, but one which which would disturb the world.

I think there will be a price that one of the 3 will have to pay personally.