Harry Potter - book seven coming soon?

[author_by_night]

These are just rumors, but it looks like, according to them and something I'm pretty sure JKR herself said, the book could be out next year, 2007.

Am I the only one who isn't really ready for it to all end?

I used to be obsessed with another series, and I always dreaded it's end, but by the time it did end, I was fifteen and thought the books sucked, so I didn't care. (Baby-Sitter's Club - hey, don't laugh!_

Granted, I don't think HP are the masterpieces I thought they were when I was younger, but they have still had a huge impact on my life (really), and... well, I do still really like the books.

I just can't believe it might be over so soon. Wasn't it just yesterday that we were speculating when the fifth book would be released?

It was around this time of year, too, when we found out. I was in eleventh grade.

Gah, I feel like such a dork.

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[prettyveela.livejournal.com]

I've been saying this since the 5th book came out. :(

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, me too, a bit, but not like now. It still felt surreal.

[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

It's going to be really weird. I'm hoping that it all wraps up well enough that I'm not going, "No! I need more! Keep writing it!" but is loose enough that I get some plot bunnies (because I didn't really feel like writing or reading fic after HBP) or at least can see myself writing something at some time.

I'm going to hold out hope that she'll write a few short stories set in the HPverse at some point in time. Eternal optimist, me.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I sort of hope it doesn't wrap up too much - not just for fic purposes, but because it's so much fun to speculate.

[miss-daizy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I feel exactly the same way! Waiting for new books and going to releases and movie openings and speculating about the characters has become a nice part of my life and a great family activity for us. I'm going to be both excited and heartbroken when Book 7 is out. Probably more heartbroken that anything, to tell the truth.

P.S. I love your icon.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[locked-door998.livejournal.com]

I don't want this to end.

I don't want Book 7 until 2008/2009, but we're probably going to have it before I'm old enough to vote. Scary.

I'm probably going to sit on my bed with the book the day it comes out, whenever that will be, and just look at it, not even touch and open it, because by opening it, I would be closing a wonderful chapter in my life and I can't do that to myself!

No. Not yet. Please, Jo, just a little longer! Take your time.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I'll probably mope a little as well, but as I'm hoping to be with friends to read it, I doubt I'll be allowed to just sit there. ;)

(Yeah, all my HP friends want to do stuff, so I'm sure I'll end up doing something with someone).

[locked-door998.livejournal.com]

If the subbit works out, I'm not going to be able to be there on a Saturday, so I'll be at home with my book, not really believing its RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.

[ginnyhaha.livejournal.com]

My feelings on the end of the series will probably be mostly defined by what book 7 is like. It'll be sad, but it's got to happen sooner or later -- better to go out with a bang than to keep on going indefinitely and becoming crap.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Good point. I do like the series, though as I said, in a different way than I liked them at fifteen.

You know, you're one of my "oldest" fandom friends - how scary is that? I've basically known you all my young adult life.

Freaky what fandom does.

[ginnyhaha.livejournal.com]

My general opinion on the books hasn't really changed... I think they've improved as they went along (I joined the fandom in the days of PoA). They're great books, with a wonderful plot and endearing characters. My interests have just moved on since then.

It's frightening to think how long I've known you, and quite a number of other people fandommy on my flist! I don't come onto AIM often to chat any more... so thank goodness for LJ ;)

[newyork-noodles.livejournal.com]

I KNOW- it's going to be so wierd- d'you what I'll feel like? Like I've grown up. No, really- because I somehow grew up with Harry Potter- I was 11 when I first read SS, and 12 when I read CoS, and almost fifteen when OotP came out, and still 16 for HBP. So it's like...Harry and I, we grew up together. And if the last book comes out the year I leave school, it'll be like the end of my childhood. Scary and heartbreaking, and wierd. =(

[ronluvshermione.livejournal.com]

I couldn't wait for HBP, I wanted to know everything and was really excited, but for Book Seven... This might sound weird, but right now I wish it would come out in five years or so. Of course I want to know what happens to them, but... not now. I don't even think about it. I'm not ready for it. I feel like I have a thousand things to do before it comes out. I'm not sure why... I guess I just don't want it to end.

[ghostlygrove.livejournal.com]

Don't feel dorky, Amy. It's a beautiful thing that something like a book can bring so much out in someone. In your case, I'll bet it was what helped you hone your writing skills; in mine... well, I was never one to write fics (did you ever read what I sent? Ain't it awful? Hehe)... Anyway, I was never one to write like that, even though I wanted to, but at least it gave me something to dream about... Heck, Harry Potter was the manifestation of the world I'd always dreamt about, even before it came out! Sure, given the time in which it did - what I was going through - a number of reasons could be given as to just why I liked the books so much, but the thing is, I did (and do, even though it's "settling" down) like them. We all do. And that's what's brought all us fans together, people from all over the world that would otherwise never have known the other existed, but that have had such an unexpected impact...

Now how many times can you say that about things nowadays? :)

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel better, I don't think JKR will have the next book out till at least 2008. She seems to take at least 2 years to push the books out.

[victorialupin.livejournal.com]

Personally, I could wait until 2008, 2009 or even longer. I'm always going to love Harry Potter, no matter what age I am, but there's something so special about being a part of fandom while the series is still being written. I feel very lucky that I discovered HP and became a part of fandom before the series finishes.

I'm also a little worried about a summer 2007 release simply because I will have just finished high school and I don't know if I'll be allowed to meet for a book seven celebration (with the sub). Even though I'll be 18 and an adult, I'd still want my parents to say that I was allowed to go, and I'm not sure they would.

Granted, I don't think HP are the masterpieces I thought they were when I was younger, but they have still had a huge impact on my life (really), and... well, I do still really like the books.

Same here. I probably haven't thought of HP as masterpieces since grade school, but I do think that they are better than 87% of the stuff that gets published. My motto is just that I know there are many better books out there, but HP just somehow became the one that I love the most. They're not perfect, just perfectly suited for me. :)

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I feel it's just like yesterday OOtP came out. I also remember going to the Quill afterwards, and some of the topics.

[petitecrivan.livejournal.com]

I want the book to come out in the sense that I want to know the story, but I can wait as long as possible, as long as she cares to take. I just know that...getting that book, actually HOLDING IT IN MY HANDS...will be amazing to me. I started this series as an 11 year old, and now I'm almost an adult. Like someone else said, I've grown up with Harry. I'm not ready for this part of my life to be over. I love the online, fandom bit of the books. I love the excitement and eagerness that comes with book and movie releases. I mean, if it hadn't been for Harry Potter, I would never have dressed up with radish earings and a lion hat and dueled Hermione at a mall at eleven at night. It's so more than a series of books to me. People who know me don't seem to understand that. I like the books, yes, but the fun that comes with them, the friends I have made...that means so much to me. I'm afraid of what will happen to the fandom after the book comes out...after a year, two. After the movies are all out. Will we still know each other? Will we still talk? What will happen to sugarquill, mugglenet, Leaky Cauldron? Will they be forgotten?

I should stop. I'm depressing myself, and we won't have the book for at least a year. But I know, when I get that book, I'll just hold it. I'll probably cry, and I'm not afraid to admit that, because I know so many of you will, too. I say that I'll read it slowly, but what's the liklihood of that? It'll be a new book, with the answers to ALL of our questions (I hope). I'll just be sobbing as I read it.

[h311ybean]

I'm one of those who are afraid of The End, too. I like finding out what happens, of course, but it's also sad because you know that there's no more after that. One can always re-read the series, but it won't be the same because back then, you knew there wasn't an ending yet. The anticipation and endless speculation is gone.

[talimeeka.livejournal.com]

Yep, not ready at all. In fact I've been trying not to think about it. I just can't even imagine such a feeling of finality. Harry Potter has been such a huge part of my life for the past seven years! That's almost half my life! Knowing that it's over, no more theories and anticipation, is going to be extremely difficult to accept.

[linda-lupos.livejournal.com]

Only about a year and a half left...

Only one book left...

Only three movies left...

Only five opportunities to dress up and get together with other fans and feel that 'first moment of Harry Potter' left! (Well, four, actually, since one of those five will be the Dutch translation of Book 7.) What will we DO afterwards?

It's so sad. This is what Star Wars fans felt in the late 70's and early '80s and what LotR fans felt in the fifties and sixties... It'll never feel this good again, and I'm afraid of the... hole HP will leave. The feeling of anticipation can never been described. I will of course let my kids read HP, but they'll never understand what it felt like to read Snape killing Dumbledore and knowing you had to wait TWO MORE YEARS before you could figure out what side he was really on! Because they can read HBP with Book 7 right next to them, and they can finish the last page and immediately go on with the next book. Worse: Dumbledore's death may even become pop culture knowledge like Darth Vader being Luke's dad. 0_0
Or I'll just give my 11-year old kid Book 1 and then tell him to wait a year before he can read the next book. ;) And in the meantime, I'll theorise with hir and encourage the kid to write fanfiction. Fandom all over again! XD (Me: "aah, that's exactly what Amy and I always thought!" Kid: "Mom? Shut up.")

Listen to me. All nostalgic about a series that hasn't even ended yet... :(

[victorialupin.livejournal.com]

Worse: Dumbledore's death may even become pop culture knowledge like Darth Vader being Luke's dad. 0_0

This is why we'll all just have to brainwash get the kids hooked on HP before they can hear the pop culture references, like my dad hooked me on SW when I was only five or six. ;P

hi you

[onewickedgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm not ready for it to end either.

[stubefied-by-gd.livejournal.com]

I won't laugh at your BSC obsession if you'll humor this very belated comment and the question, "How did it all end?" How old were they? Did they abandom the Club?!?

It will be very odd to not have any more canon to come, but kinda appropriate to the way my life's been moving.

[rocknroll5s.livejournal.com]

Hello!

I found your journal through a friend's and after seeing that you used to be obsessed with BSC I figured "WOW we have a lot in common!"

So I added you as a friend, hope that's alright!