Deathly Hallows Book Discussion **LoTs Of Spoilers**

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

I read today that she might compile an encyclopedia, filled with all her copious notes on the characters and such that were omitted from the books. (Such as Dean Thomas's story, which she said is good).

That would be neat and pretty much the only additional HP book I would like to see her write.

[wendybeth]

Here's the link.

[Gemini Cricket]

I guess that wouldn't bother me too much...
But the 'Adventures of Harry's Kids and Dobby's Twin Brother Slobby' would really tick me off.

[innerSpaceman]

I was hoping Harry really was dead, just so's the series could not continue (as the "Harry Potter" series at any rate) after J.K. shucks this mortal coil.




Oh, and Ginny Weasley was robbed. All that build-up, and then NOTHING. Nothing in the entire book except being the long-distance object of Harry's lovesick affection. Bah.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I was hoping Harry really was dead, just so's the series could not continue (as the "Harry Potter" series at any rate) after J.K. shucks this mortal coil.

You aren't alone. I didn't necessarily want him to die but I did not want any possibility for the story to continue. I think the epilogue did a decent job of preventing any more HP vs. Voldie story lines but there are a lot of openings for other paths...

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Oh, and Ginny Weasley was robbed. All that build-up, and then NOTHING. Nothing in the entire book except being the long-distance object of Harry's lovesick affection. Bah.

Well, on page 631, Crabbe did call Ginny the Whore of Hogwarts...

















Haw haw. Made you look.

[Alex]

Unless there are some really weird contracts out there Scholastic wouldn't have any rights to the characters, just publishing rights for the 7 books. Any continuation after Rowling's death would have to have the involvement of her estate.

So you'll have to hope that David and Mackenzie won't go against her wishes should Rowling make it to death without doing more on her own.

Maybe they'll go the V.C. Andrews/Tom Clancy route and in a couple decades we'll start seeing something like this:

J.K. Rowling's® Harry Potter and the Last Crusade in Search of the Holy Grail by Alan Dean Foster

[wendybeth]

Ooooh...... I can just see the movie.....Harrison Ford can play Dumbledore, and instead of riding around on thestrals they can just bang coconuts together!

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Alex

Maybe they'll go the V.C. Andrews/Tom Clancy route and in a couple decades we'll start seeing something like this: [snip][/size]

Wait wait wait. When did Tom Clancy books start being written by a ghost writer?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Wait wait wait. When did Tom Clancy books start being written by a ghost writer?

He does not write the books in the OpCenter, Power Play, or Net Force series. When the Net Force series first started they didn't even mention the real author on the cover, but I believe they've changed this in the years since with it still being the case that "Tom Clancy's..." is in huge letters and the author's name is nice and small. In those first books the only mention would be something in the acknowledgments like "invaluable contribution[s] to the manuscript by Joe Blow" when in fact the invaluable contribution was that Joe Blow wrote it.

So there are the now acknowledged series in which Clancy has just licensed his name but rumors that other recent books have been ghostwritten as well.

So he's not quite in the V.C. Andrews camp (at least not until he dies) but is an example of whoring out the name. Asimov did something similar in his late years but I think the appropriate authorial credit was given much more prominently.

Robert Ludlum is another. His estate has published about a dozen new books since he died in 2001, supposedly based on unfinished manuscripts but no authorial credit is given