Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince-SPOILERS!!!!

[Numion]

That might have something to do with the series being about Harry growing up at Hogwarts, and you're only there for seven years.

Yeah, and she planned the plot out in advance. If nothing bad happens to Harry at the end of book 7, why would she say that the 7th book is absolutely last Potter? There would be a demand for Harry books after the 7th .. which would of course be when he's outta Hogwarts. Why close that door without a reason? These aren't Hogwarts books but Harry Potter books.

 

[Storm Raven]

Yeah, and she planned the plot out in advance. If nothing bad happens to Harry at the end of book 7, why would she say that the 7th book is absolutely last Potter? There would be a demand for Harry books after the 7th .. which would of course be when he's outta Hogwarts. Why close that door without a reason?

Because she already has her gazillion dollars, and wants to write about other things?

 

[billd91]

Yeah, and she planned the plot out in advance. If nothing bad happens to Harry at the end of book 7, why would she say that the 7th book is absolutely last Potter? There would be a demand for Harry books after the 7th .. which would of course be when he's outta Hogwarts. Why close that door without a reason? These aren't Hogwarts books but Harry Potter books.

So that Harry Potter doesn't wear out his welcome like some other series of books I can mention?
I don't think Jo Rowling wants to devote her life to Harry Potter. She'll tell the story she wants to tell and move on to other things, at least for a while. It's OK for stories to have an end.

 

[David Howery]

besides, once Voldemort and the great wizard war are over with, there's not much else about Potter to write about that wouldn't seem to be a whole lot lesser in contrast... maybe JKR will write about some other character in the same setting in future books...

 

[Numion]

Because she already has her gazillion dollars, and wants to write about other things?

True, but I still don't see the reason to be absolute about it, unless his artistic vision demands it. Sure she's fed up now, and probably wishes that she'd said that Hogwarts is a 6-year school, but she may want to return to that magic world with Potter later on - unless, of course, something bad happens to Potter.

If all is well with Potter at the end of the book 7, she could still do it. If Potter is dead, it hobviously isn't the case.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

True, but I still don't see the reason to be absolute about it, unless his artistic vision demands it. Sure she's fed up now, and probably wishes that she'd said that Hogwarts is a 6-year school, but she may want to return to that magic world with Potter later on - unless, of course, something bad happens to Potter.

If all is well with Potter at the end of the book 7, she could still do it. If Potter is dead, it hobviously isn't the case.

I think it is her artistic vision that demands ending Harry Potter after 7 books. Simply because she knows that she will never be able to recreate the fascination and interest for HP if she tries to start up a new story-line with the same characters, after the old one has been resolved. She didn´t want to drag it out (like other book series), and she didn´t want to create new story-lines for the same characters.

 

[JimAde]

In a recent interview (Time Magazine) JKR said she can't really see herself writing ANY fantasy books after this series, much less more HP stories. I really think she just wants to finish this one great (and very long) story then do other stuff. She also said it's entirely possible that when she writes anything else it'll be dreadful and that scares her a bit.

 

[neg]

I agree!

Anyway, this whole 'Regulus Black is R.A.B' thing fits quite nicely, and if you read paragraph three on page 108 in Order of the Phoenix, the cleaning crew find 'a heavy locket that none of them could open.' Could this be the horcrux that Harry and Dumbledore tried to get in the cave?

If it was a horcrux, then it will be hard to find, and they threw everything away. However there is a posibility that Kreacher stole it (if you remember he tried to retrieve items which were being thrown away) or possibly Mundungus (who Harry threatened outside the Pub when he found out he had been stealing from Grimmauld Place.

I agree with this post completely. I re-read book 5 while my fiance read book 6 and this line struck me as odd. But seen in the context of Book 6, it is absolutely obvious.

Great and insightful first post, Larka. Welcome to the Boards!

-neg

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Biography ran their JKR episode (with a few tweaks for book 6 and clips from movie 4) this month. Here's what she said about the final chapter.

It's already written. She no longer keeps it at home. She wouldn't even open the envelope in front of the reporter. It's an epilogue, which tells what happens to everyone.

It sounds very "final" to me. Of course, fifteen years later she may get the itch....I just hope we don't get seven "sequels" that tell the same story from Bean's Ron's point of view!

 

[Fast Learner]

Since this is the spoiler thread, I can mention this.

Someone jokingly referred to the title of the book as Harry Potter and the Snape Kills Dumbledore, which I thought was funny as hell.

My next throught was that she probably would have sold even more books with that title, since people who'd given up back at book 3 or whatever would likely go, "Whoa, I've got to read that!"