Release Date!!

[perpetual_motion]

LONDON (Reuters) - The fate of fictional boy wizard
Harry Potter will finally be revealed on July 21, the publication day for the seventh and final installment of J.K. Rowling's hugely successful book series.

In what promises to be one of the biggest publishing events in recent years, book stores will be bracing for another outbreak of Pottermania as fans across the world snap up their copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

Speculation has been rife that Rowling, who became a dollar billionaire on the back of the success of the Harry Potter books and spin-off movies, may kill Harry at the end of book seven.

She said last year that at least two characters would die in the final book, and that she understood authors' desire to kill off the main character of a successful series.

Two top U.S. authors, John Irving and Stephen King, were sufficiently concerned over the fictional hero's fate to urge Rowling to spare Potter.

Potter publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc announced the release date on Thursday, and added that it remained cautious about its outlook in light of challenging market conditions, although the announcement supported its previously stated view of a satisfactory outcome for 2007.

It's shares were trading at 225 pence at 1240 GMT on Thursday, up around two percent from Wednesday's close. Broader shares were also higher, with the FTSE 100 up more than one percent by the same time.


I now open the bidding pool to speculation on deaths. My money's on at least one Weasley and probably Snape.

Comments

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

No bother. It just gives me another reason to bite my nails to dust as I read. For book six, a friend and I read them side-by-side, and she read a bit faster, so I'd be there, minding my own business, and then I'd hear, "OH!", and then I'd stick my tounge out at her and try to get ahead. Oh, the theories we had going.

[selenitia.livejournal.com]

I don't know when I'll be able to get my hands on book 7.
I'm not sure I'll have the money to preorder it.

More Wizard Rock:
Run Snape Run (http://www.sendspace.com/file/548c3w)

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

Are you near a Wal-Mart or K-Mart or Target? I know that, for the last book, a friend and I did the party at Barnes and Noble [never again], and actually bought our books at Wal-Mart. The place was deserted. They had a huge stack of books just sitting there and no one around to mob them.

[selenitia.livejournal.com]

Walmart's about 20 minutes away, only I don't drive (no license).

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could throw up a tent at your local library.

[selenitia.livejournal.com]

Or Amazon can offer it to me preorder for 19 bucks just as I get off work.

*preorders*