JK Rowling is dropping hints she might do an eighth Harry Potter book — though she says Harry wouldn’t be the central character.
Rowling, 42, admits she has ‘weak moments’ when she feels she will pen another novel about the boy wizard.
One of her biggest fans – her 14-year-old daughter Jessica – has already put pressure on her to revisit the character.
… [I]n an interview with Time magazine, which put Rowling at No 3 in its Person Of The Year list, she said: “There have been times since finishing, weak moments, when I’ve said ‘Yeah, all right’ to the eighth novel.
“If – and it’s a big if – I ever write an eighth book, I doubt that Harry would be the central character. I feel I’ve already told his story.
“But these are big ifs. Let’s give it ten years.”
I suspect part of it will have to do with whether the other books (“an adult novel and a ‘political fairy tale’ “) are a success or not. Not that she needs the money, but I imagine it’s hard to let go of something that’s been such a popular success.
(via GeekPress)
I would like to see a series of books/short stories/collections of shared fiction (a la Thieves’ World) set in Rowlings’ fictional world. THAT would be cool!
I doubt Rowling (or her publisher) would allow that to happen without every heavy editorial control. But some short-story-sized chunks of info that could be considered canon would be pretty keen.
Rowling has talked about an HP Concordance kind of thing before — basically her background notes on everyone, etc. Again, I’d enjoy that.