[Yudster]

I would never presume to tell JK Rowling what she should do with her time.

[MK Chris]

Ahem, I just started on this in the chat room but I feel I'll post it here instead. First I'd like to say I have no idea if Harry Potter as a series is what can be described as a 'good thing' in terms of the quality of the stories (in fact it's subjective anyway) and I won't be finding out because I have no intention of reading them. However, assuming it is a good thing, as lots of people seem to think, it is still possible to overdo a good thing so that it becomes less good, or even bad; and why would anyone want that to happen? Aside from that, JK Rowling has said (I know, I saw it on Jonathan Ross) that she does not wish to write any more Potter books and it's unlikely she ever will again.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Unless all her other books fail and shes down to her last £10 Million.

[S4B]

Ahem, I just started on this in the chat room but I feel I'll post it here instead. First I'd like to say I have no idea if Harry Potter as a series is what can be described as a 'good thing' in terms of the quality of the stories (in fact it's subjective anyway) and I won't be finding out because I have no intention of reading them. However, assuming it is a good thing, as lots of people seem to think, it is still possible to overdo a good thing so that it becomes less good, or even bad; and why would anyone want that to happen? Aside from that, JK Rowling has said (I know, I saw it on Jonathan Ross) that she does not wish to write any more Potter books and it's unlikely she ever will again.

Trust me she does and her die hard fans (me included) will love them.

[MK Chris]

How do you know she does?

[S4B]

Because she said on Jonathon Ross that she wouldn't need much encouragement to write another.

[MK Chris]

Ah I must have missed that bit, I didn't hear it. You can still overdo a good thing though.

[S4B]

agreed, I just don't think she's taken it to its peak yet. I'll let you know once I've read the last one

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

She said she didn't feel at the moment like she would write another but who knows in 10 years.

[S4B]

Ah but she said that after the last book too, that she didn't feel like writing the next at the moment.

[MK Chris]

Can I ask how old is Harry Potter at the start of these books and how old is he at the end of the last one? Surely the point of it is that it documents his years at this wizard school, well he must be getting a bit old for school.

[S4B]

He was 11 at the beginning and will turn 17 at the start of this one

[MK Chris]

So they can't do many more, unless they follow him into adult life, which is really a completely different series of books altogether, surely? And totally different and may even fall flat on it's face.

[MK Chris]

That is exackerly my point.

[Yudster]

Ah but she said that after the last book too, that she didn't feel like writing the next at the moment.

My feeling when I read the last one was that she hadn't wanted to write that. It felt like she was fulfilling a contract. She started out as a childrens author and has ended up as a movie franchise. I'm not surprised her books are beginning to seem jaded.

[DemonHorse]

the people who do things like that make me feel less worried I am wasting my life.

Up there with the people who joined the Sun's "Save Deidre" campaign a coupla years back. Many of these same people at the time complained that I got into wrestling "because it's fake"... the number of times I replied with an annoyed "Well so's (insert name of Soap that they watch religiously here)" and watched their faces drop as they shut up... priceless.

[Yudster]

So everyone who hates wrestling is automatically a soap fan? Hmm. That means I either watch wrestling or soaps in my sleep!

[ladbroke]

Can't stand all that Harry Potter, knob warts malarky. Was dragged to see one of them once and had to go out for a fag, just TERMINAL.

More book and film reviews available upon request, available in any crayon colour!!

[DemonHorse]

So everyone who hates wrestling is automatically a soap fan? Hmm. That means I either watch wrestling or soaps in my sleep!

No, just that MANY I have encountered who criticise wrestling for fakeness are the same people who watch soaps and do stuff like the whole "Save Deidre" stuff.
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[Yudster]

S'all right Demon, I knew what you meant. I was just being Topher. I mean pedantic.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

the people who do things like that make me feel less worried I am wasting my life.

Up there with the people who joined the Sun's "Save Deidre" campaign a coupla years back.

*cough* Kendra *cough*

[kendra k]

i never did! i gave up soaps though.

funny enough, i've been watching lots of wrestling dramas.

[S4B]

Can't stand all that Harry Potter, knob warts malarky. Was dragged to see one of them once and had to go out for a fag, just TERMINAL.

More book and film reviews available upon request, available in any crayon colour!!

But this thread is about the books hun not the movies

[Longview01]

The Harry Potter books are so far fetched. I mean I can buy the fact that magic exists, maybe even unicorns but have you ever seen a ginger kid with 2 mates?!?!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

why can't he magic his eyesight better?