These are testing times for JK Rowling – every day that she doesn't finish writing the final book of the Harry Potter series is a day that a dump-truck doesn't come to her house loaded up with cash and valuable historical artifacts from around the world.
And JK Rowling is right to feel the pressure too, since she has a big task ahead of her – deciding exactly how to kill Harry Potter in the final book Harry Potter And The Deadly Hallows. We're doing our best to help JK Rowling out, although she hasn't relied to our "Why not have a billion red ants strip the flesh off Harry's bones?" letter yet. Despite our best efforts, the stress of completing the Harry Potter saga is so great that JK Rowling has started dreaming about Harry Potter for the very first time. Perhaps these dreams will influence JK Rowling's writing, and in the new book we'll see Harry Potter's teeth fall out and start screaming at him in his mother's voice in front of all his friends. On the moon.
Yes, we'd like that.
It's hard to believe that soon JK Rowling will finish writing the final Harry Potter book, marking the end of the Harry Potter saga apart from the three remaining Harry Potter films, the Harry Potter Junior range of books and subsequent movie tie-ins, the re-release of all the Harry Potter books and DVDs in six different limited edition leather-bound boxsets, the Harry Potter: Space Ranger Saturday morning cartoon and the Harry Potter & The Potterettes Christmas Makes Me Feel All Wizardy novelty single. Yes, it'll be a sad moment indeed.
Harry Potter has been a phenomenal success for JK Rowling; not only has it sold millions of DVDs, a record-breaking amount of books and about a billion years at the top of the box office – making Daniel Radcliffe the richest little boy in the country and JK Rowling the richest human being in all of history – but the success of Harry Potter has meant that whatever petty grumbles JK Rowling has, about paper and how thin models are, get amplified a billon times around the internet by all sorts of excited children.
But for every upside – like the whole world starting to get excited about seeing Harry Potter kiss a girl on the face in the new Harry Potter movie – there's a downside. Now JK Rowling has to find the time in between commissioning giant solid-gold statues of herself in briefly amusing poses to sit down and finish writing the final – potentially Harry Potter-killing – Harry Potter book. And the stress is literally sending her doolally, as she writes on her website:
For years now, people have asked me whether I ever dream that I am 'in' Harry's world. The answer was 'no' until a few nights ago, when I had an epic dream in which I was, simultaneously, Harry and the narrator. I was searching for a Horcrux in a gigantic, crowded hall, which bore no resemblance to the Great Hall as I imagine it. As the narrator I knew perfectly well that the Horcrux was jammed in a hidden nook in the fireplace, while as Harry I was searching for it in all kinds of other places, while trying to make the people around me say lines I had pre-arranged for them. Meanwhile waiters and waitresses who work in the real café in which I have written huge parts of book seven roamed around me as though on stilts, all of them at least fifteen feet high. Perhaps I should cut back on the caffeine?
Yes, that's right JK Rowling. The 'caffeine'. At least we can all breathe a sigh of relief now, because – like us – you probably expected JK Rowling's Harry Potter dreams to be full of penises and horse-stabbing, right?
Actually we didn't expect that at all, you bloody pervert.
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hermione says
Big year for Harry potter then. kissing a girl AND stabbing some horses in
Gabriel Rogers says
I’m anticipating the release of the new Harry Potter book, I’m a little sad that this is the last book. I’ve been a fan since the beginning of this phenomenon and I continue to talk to friends about the other books. We are all happy with the success of the books and movies. I’ve been recently meeting other Harry Potter fans through this awesome site called Cyworld. I work with them and have great inside information. Cyworld is a great new site where you can meet people with shared interests, you can create a whole other world meeting new people, sharing ideas, and joining clubs. You should check out the website http://www.cyworld.com
Gregory says
I cant wait for the final Harry Potter book, i dont know if i will be able to wait till 21 July. I know that Harry will die in book 7 and i hope that JK doesnt get a lot of hatemail because she
doesnt deserve it having to think what to write all the time allthough i dont want Harry to die. I am a great fan of Harry Potter and have read all the books about 10 times and i dont even
get bored.