New Harry Potter book completed

[Gothmog]

The latest Harry Potter book has been completed and the publication date will be announced shortly. See http://the-leaky-cauldron.org/

[Quetzal]

1. Amen!

Who is Professor Moody?

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

3. "Mad-Eye" Moody

He had a large part in #4 (sort of - I can't say more for fear of spoilers) and some small appearances in #5.

[CatBoreal]

2. Haaaaaaalelluiah!

Doing the Snoopy Dance of Joy!

[Lost147]

4. Been looking forward to that book

They're one of the few books that's an extremely easy read and still a great story.

[redsoxliberal]

5. YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO EXCITED!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

6. Yahootie!

Glad to know Ms. Rowling's continuous baby-making isn't standing in the way of her writing. :evilgrin:

[Skittles]

7. gawd, not again

nt

[NightTrain]

8. That's great news to this Potterhead!

So, how long is the new book? 2,000 pages? 3,000 maybe? :evilgrin:

[cheezus]

11. length

HBP "A bit shorter" than OotP

We've also received confirmation from Bloomsbury that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is "a bit shorter" than Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. (MuggleNet reported this this morning.)
posted by Melissa Anelli at 11:11 AM

[redsoxliberal]

9. 7/16/05

countdown time!

[Gothmog]

14. Yeah

I saw this earlier today. My daughter let out a war hoop of joy when I told her. At least we do not have to wait three years for the next book.

[cheezus]

10. anyone else think she got a ghost-writer somewhere along the way

I mean, she's mega-rich with coke dollars. And scholastic needs to keep that gravy train rolling...

[7th_Sephiroth]

17. she does have the whole series plotted out

more or less, she said chamber sf secrets was supposed to be #5

[Placebo]

12. Why do people READ these damn books???

I mean, I have friends in Med School, and super-freakin' genius friends who READ THESE BOOKS! They tried their best to convert me, but I couldn't get past the first bloody page, it was tooooooo painful.

[NightTrain]

15. Because they're entertaining as hell!

That's why I read them, and I normally don't go in for fantasy!

[theboss]

18. I'm an Ivy-educated English major

And I read them. I was late to the party, but I read the first one in a single sitting and was hooked.

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. Just pre-ordered my copies from amazon!

(not that one can pre-ordering anything - I mean, for the last 39 years of my life, I've been in a state of "pre-ordering" the book; today I just plain fucking ORDERED the book, but Amazon wants to call it pre-ordering, so what the hell, but if I catch any of you DUers using sloppy language like this, I'm gonna have Skittles kick your ass, and then GOPisEvil is gonna repeatedly drive over your broken body until it's a liquid)

[NGU]

16. Yeah!!!!!!!!!

My partner emailed me about it this morning. I can't wait!