[Sca-cooks] (OT) (OOP) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Publication Date Announcement

[Susan Laing]

Sorry for the off topic post but I'm sure there are other mad-keen Harry
Potter fans out there wanting to know this :-p

Marion de Paxford

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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:24:37 -0000

Hello,

We are delighted to tell you that we are now able to announce the
publication date of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling.
The book will be published on 21st June, 2003 and will be 768 pages long.

In making the joint announcement, Nigel Newton, Chief Executive of
Bloomsbury Publishing in Britain and Barbara Marcus, President of Scholastic
Children's Books in the United States said, 'We are thrilled to announce the
publication date.  Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 is absolutely superb and will delight all J K Rowling's fans.  She has
written a brilliant and utterly compelling new adventure, which begins with
the words:

"The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy
silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive .  The only person
left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flowerbed
outside number four."

Later in the novel, J K Rowling writes:

"Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon
glasses.

'It is time,' he said, 'for me to tell you what I should have told you five
years ago, Harry.

Please sit down.  I am going to tell you everything.' " '

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is over 255,000 words compared to
over 191,000 words in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.  The new book is
38 chapters long, one more than Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

To read the announcement in full click here:
http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/redir.asp?id=625