[Myr] News

[Guest jamieanderson]

New Potter book is scheduled for July

 

The next instalment of Harry Potter mania will strike on July 16 - the date announced yesterday for the release of J K Rowling's sixth fantasy novel.

 

Children may (or may not) be pleased to learn that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be "a bit shorter" than the last book, which weighed in at 768 pages.

 

Bar a few teasers, Rowling and her publishers are giving away few details of the story of the next book, when Harry, Hermione and classmates reach 16 and enter their sixth year at Hogwarts.

 

The author has already revealed that one character will die and that Cornelius Fudge, the ineffectual Minister of Magic, will lose his portfolio.

 

The new title refers to half-bloods, such as Harry's arch-enemy Voldemort, who are part-wizard and part-muggle (human).

 

The return of Voldemort at the end of the last book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, means that full-on battle between the two protagonists will be resumed in book six before reaching its climax in the final, seventh instalment.

 

Bloomsbury, the British publisher, would not say whether the prince is a new or evolved character. However, a spokesman said yesterday that the opening of Half-Blood Prince was originally the first chapter to the second book, Chamber of Secrets.

 

Rowling took the chapter out of Chamber of Secrets because she thought that "it gave too much away" too early in the series.

 

Nigel Newton, the publisher's chief executive, said: "J K Rowling has written a brilliant story that will dazzle her fans in a marvellous book that takes the series to yet greater heights."

[eric5748]

Well I don't know about you guys but I can't wait.

[Myr]

I just hope I like it better than I did book 5. That put me off writing anything HP for almost a year.

[Guest jamieanderson]

>The author has already revealed that one character will die <

 

Shall we run a book on who will pop his/her clogs?

 

Jamie

[Crackerwriter]

  just hope I like it better than I did book 5. That put me off writing anything HP for almost a year. 

 

 

Funny you should say that Myr. It made me increasingly frustrated for about the first half, because it didn't seem like anything was really happening except a spring clean of the Black's house. It wasn't until almost the last third of the book that it really got going. It gave me the impression that it was a struggle to write the first bit, as though she had difficulty getting back into the plot, and was just padding it out. Maybe my thinking was off, but a friend came to a similar conclusion.

[Myr]

I actually throw book 5 across the room several times when I read it. In my opinion, she broke the cardinal rule of writing a novel. I had no satisfaction from the book. Harry was tortured, literally (that bloody pen of Umbitch), but Harry had no releif, no release. That break's the contract with readers. If you have a character you make everyone like, and you treat them badly, there must be some sort of positive somewhere to help balance it. There wasn't any. Extremely frustrating.

[eric5748]

I agree with you Myr. Over all the book was so dark and forlorn that it was hard to read. I did finish reading it hoping that eventually it would get better but it never really did. That was why I hoped and prayed for your version to come out because by the time I finished reading the real book it just did not compare to your version.

[GoThica]

he tended to release his anger on his friends alot..which is something I didnt like, it made harry look like a total asshole..

[Myr]

That's true GoThica. It was still an irritating book.

[eric5748]

I did get the book for Christmas and plan to reread it, but I mostlt asked for it to complete my collection.

[Umbathri]

I agree with the spring cleaning feel, That left me a little cold, but then so did the garden gnomes earlier. But I loved the bloody pen, and how it was twisting his mind. Pain can be a nice teaching tool, too bad he was too afraid to fight back. Or maybe its just the mood im in... writing a prity dark piece myself atm. Plan to post it soon. Masochists of the world unite.

 

~Umbathri

the bearer of the mask

[Patrickgay17]

unfortuantly I would have to disagree but that's just me my two favorite series are the HPs and the Odessey collection I just love them and nomatter what she writes I always will.