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as i'm sure everyone knew, that there was gonna be 7 books in the series due to the 7 years at hogwarts.
however, since it has been revealed that harry will indeed not be returning to hogwarts for his 7th year but instead hunt voldemort, do u think this would change the length of the series?
and do u guys predict the books to be thicker or thinner than the previous ones?
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq_view.cfm?id=24
Will you write more Harry Potter books after the seventh?
If you mean more novels, then I think it highly unlikely. I’ve got enough story for seven books and I never planned to carry the story beyond the end of book seven. I might do an eighth book for charity, a kind of encyclopaedia of the world so that I could use all the extra material that’s not in the books... we’ll see!
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq_view.cfm?id=35
Is every book going to be bigger than the previous one?
No, definitely not, or book seven would be around the weight of a baby hippopotamus. According to the plan for book six, it will be quite a bit shorter than 'Order of the Phoenix'. I am not going to swear on my children's lives that that is going to be the case, but I am 99% certain of it.
http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq.cfm answers a lot of questions..
Also, an interview:
http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrinterview.shtml
ES: When book seven is out, will you keep the Web site open to keep answering questions?
JKR: Yeah, I don’t see the Web site closing, like on the stroke of midnight when the seventh book’s finished. No, definitely not. My feeling is, I couldn’t possibly answer all the questions, because the novel is the wrong form in which to, for example, present a catalog of your characters’ favorite colors. But people actually want to know – it’s that kind of detail, isn’t it? So, I’m never going to answer everything that an obsessive fan would want to know in the novels, and the Web site is another way of doing that.
Also I think people will continue to theorize about the characters even at the end of book seven because some people are very interested in certain characters whose past lives are not germane to the plot, they’re not central to the story, so there is big leeway there still for fanfiction, just as there is, I mean – Jane Austen, I'm a huge Jane Austen fan and you wonder about the characters lives at the end of the story. They still exist, they still live, you're bound to wonder, aren't you? But I am as sure as I can be currently that seven will be the final novel, even though I get a lot of really big puppy dog eyes. “Just one more!” Yeah, I think it will be seven.
ES: Seven books is a long series.
JKR: Yeah, exactly, I don’t think they’re going to say you wimped out, come on!
Harry potter = star wars
http://www.mugglenet.com/funlists/lukevsharry.shtml