Hi everybody!
We are already starting the planning stages for the release event for book #7. There is still no word on title or date of release, but since #6 is about to come out in paperback, we think news on #7 won't be too far behind. At least, "historically" it has always followed within a couple of months. If you would like to be invovled in the planning, just let me know (either by comment here or email me directly at russosbooks@bak.rr.com and just be sure to put "Jenn" and "HP" someplace in the subject line). We had 2,000+ people come to the release event for #6!
The official anniversary of the D.A. is August 18th, but we are having our "party" and the store's paperback release party for #6 this month, Friday July 28th from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Marketplace bookstore.
The word on the next book circulating in the news (as you have already heard, I'm sure) is that, in an interview, J.K. Rowling said that 2 main characters die in the last book. What she said exactly was "One character got a reprieve, but I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die."
This, of course, has sparked a lot of discussion here at the store. There was also a good "mini-article" in Entertainment Weekly that gave a selection of the main characters odds. The ones I found most interesting were the suggestions that it may be Hagrid, as one of Harry's last adult supporters, and Snape, in an act of redeeming martyrdom that shows Dumbledore was right all along about him. They listed: "Ron: 20-1, Ginny: 6-1, Hagrid: 3-2, Hermione: 50-1, Snape: 2-1, Harry: 9-2, Voldemort: even odds". You can visit this link http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=usatodayodds.gif to see what the folks at Mugglenet think the odds are. Mike Russo had a very interesting line of reasoning with the vote that Aunt Petunia and Harry will bite it, on the stipulation that Harry "comes back from the dead" and destroys Voldemort. His reasoning for Aunt Petunia is that as the books go on, we find out more and more about Petunia's knowledge and involvement in the magical world... and if Voldemort gets rid of her, there isn't the special bound-by-blood safe place for Harry anymore.
So, post your bets. We could say that who ever gets it closest to right gets an icecream sundae from the rest of the group... or something along those lines....
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--From today's event in New York With Stephen King and John Irving--
"I can resolve the story now and it's fun in a way it wasn't before because finally I've reached my resolution, and I think some people will loathe it and some people will love it, but that's how it should be."
"We're working toward the end I always planned but a couple of characters I expected to survive have died and one character got a reprieve," she said, declining to elaborate.
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