Re: HBP much shorter than GOF !



On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:23:44 BST, Blon Fel Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen <bffpds@raxacoricofallapatoria> wrote:
> J. Dudley wrote:
>
>> The most horrific thing about this is, of course, that JK Rowling wrote
>> that Books 6 and 7 would be much shorter than Book 5, when people were
>> speculating about the progression in length from Books 1 through 5 as to
>> what Books 6 and 7 would be like. It is shocking when authors deliver!
>
> But she never admitted that Book 6 would be much shorter than Book 4.

So what? They're her books; she doesn't owe anyone a page-count or
word-count.

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