Harry potter and the deathly hallows book release date

Friday, February 2, 2007

J K Rowling, the author of the "Harry Potter" series, has revealed the release date of the seventh and final installment - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - July 21, 2007. Mary GrandPre, the illustrator of the first six books, will return to illustrate the new novel.

The book will be released worldwide at midnight by the publisher Scholastic. Huge crowds are expected around the world, and the book, since its first appearance on Amazon.co.uk, had risen to the number one sale for pre-orders. After the new book was announced, Amazon.com reported a surge of traffic occurred on their website. Amazon.com has called the novel "one of the most eagerly awaited books of all time".

J K Rowling recently wrote the following about her new book: "I'm now writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or even more, I don't think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels: I am alternately elated and overwrought. I both want, and don't want, to finish this book (don't worry, I will.)"

Sources

• J K Rowling. "Publication Date for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" — JKRowling.com, February 1, 2007
• Melissa Anelli. "Deathly Hallows Release Date Announced" — The Leaky Cauldron, February 1, 2007
• "Amazon Calls Book Seven "Most Eagerly Awaited Books of All Time"" — The Leaky Cauldron, December 21, 2006
• Hillel Italie. "Final 'Harry Potter' Title Announced" — Yahoo.com, December 21, 2006

External links

• Scholastic
  

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Published on Feb 06, 2007 01:07 PM IST

The world's most anticipated book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will come out on midnight.

None | Associated Press || Hillel Italie with Deepti Hajela, New York

Let it begin: the countdown, the party planning, the predictions, the meaning of it all.

The tears - for the end of Harry Potter.

The world's most anticipated book finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will come out midnight, July 21, according to author J K Rowling and her British and U S publishers, Bloomsbury and Scholastic, Inc. Ten years, and a few hundred million sales, after the first Potter book was released, Rowling will wrap up the magical adventures of the boy wizard, his friends and his enemies. The author posted a brief announcement on her website on Thursday, followed soon by releases from her publishers.

The news landed like a silent meteor. Deathly Hallows almost instantly topped the best seller lists on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, displacing another industry titan, an Oprah Winfrey pick, Sidney Poitier's The Measure of a Man.

Potter readers, who had speculated the book might be published July 7 (7/7/07 for the seventh book) or July 31 (Harry's birthday), posted dozens of ecstatic messages on the Potter fan site, www.the-leaky-cauldron.org, within minutes of the announcement. "OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!! I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!!!!" read one typical message.

"WAH!!! I think I'm going crazy!!!! We finally have a date!!!" added another fan.

Other comments were sadder, noting the series' conclusion. "I can't wait to read the book, but at the same time, I'm afraid to read it," read a message from a fan named Christine, who identified herself as a "30-something" mom. "I can't stand the thought of anything happening to the characters that I've grown to love! What an odd feeling."

Christine and others have a lot to look forward to - and to fear. Rowling's stories have darkened considerably since the first release, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and the author has said two characters will be killed off in Book 7.

"I don't always enjoy killing my characters. I didn't enjoy killing the character who died at the end of Book 6," Rowling said during a reading last summer at Radio City Music Hall, declining to name that person in case someone had yet to finish the book. "I really didn't enjoy doing that but I had been planning that for years so it wasn't quite as poignant as you might imagine. I'd already done my grieving when I actually came to write it."

Rowling left millions sobbing at the end of Book 6, with a death and Harry's decision to take on the evil Lord Voldemort.

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