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From: Abel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:02:20 -0500 (EST)

Potter fans, of course, face a far darker prospect than the departure of a single character. The series itself must end -- Rowling expects to start working on the seventh Potter book at the end of the year.

"I'm just trying to think of a really good plot that isn't like Harry Potter," she said. Dracula, however, has nothing on the great white shark. Susan Casey went in search of the vicious sea creatures in one of their native habitats, a string of wind-whipped rock outcroppings called the Farallon Islands, about 25 miles west of San Francisco. (Indeed, the islands are considered within "I thought the writing style was different. It was darker and more depressing. I liked it better," Coppolo said. "The previous books were more uplifting." es facing the wrath of Rowling's publishers, if not the publishers' attorneys. What is known is that Rowling has said the books would get progressively darker as Harry -- now entering his sixth year at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry -- gets older and closer to his ultimate battle with Lord Voldemort, the series' personification of evil. Potter Web site MuggleNet even offers a page of rumor debunkings, including "[Hogwarts Headm!
 aster] Dumbledore is not a relative of Harry," "Harry Potter will not be the new Minister of Magic" and "There will be no character named Icicle." "I thought the writing style was different. It was darker and more depressing. I liked it better," Coppolo said. "The previous books were more uplifting." J.K. Rowling had been warning all along that "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the sixth of her world-conquering fantasy series, would include the death of a major character. (See book review.) Her promise was fulfilled, although it didn't make her fans, no matter the age, any more prepar Like so many Potter readers, Heyman has filled time between new releases by rereading the older Potter books and trying out other fantasy series. She mentions Christopher Paolini's "Inheritance," for which the second of three planned volumes comes out next month.  "My Life" -- a best seller last year -- received a first run of 1.5 million copies.

Romance has begun entering the air -- perhaps even involving Harry, not to mention his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger -- and so has death. The New York buyer said she would return the book; in the Canadian case, a judge ordered purchasers to avoid disclosing the plot if they wouldn't return their copies. According to some reports, they were even told not to read it. Another thing you can bank on is, well, the bank. Scholastic, Rowling's American publisher, is issuing a first printing of 10.8 million copies, by far a record. By comparison, the last Harry Potter novel, 2003's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," was issued with 8.5 million copies, the  "The awful betrayal!" said Katie Oxman, 13, of New Canaan, Connecticut, just minutes after reading the climax. It was so shocking, she said, she screamed out to her father. They had become attached to the characters over the years, worrying and rooting for them during difficult times. Potter fans, of course, fa!
 ce a far darker prospect than the departure of a single character. The series itself must end -- Rowling expects to start working on the seventh Potter book at the end of the year.