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posted by [personal profile] connielane at 08:56am on 13/09/2006 under ,
There you go, [livejournal.com profile] major_dallas! She must have heard you! Updates in the News section (with a hilarious anecdote about almost being forced to part with her manuscript for Book 7 because of the heightened airport security), Diary, and Extras (with a VERY tantalizing "Never Asked Question", which she assures us is NOT of the "Mark Evans" ilk).

The Extras update is probably the most interesting. I think she's laying off of "easter egg" reveals about the next book this go round - everything is a giveaway at this point. I'm kind of glad she's laying off of giving the title until she's closer to finishing. Order of the Phoenix, for example, was no doubt a very fitting title at a certain point in her writing of that book, but we saw with the OotP "Plan" that that was likely a case of deciding on a title before the book had really begun to take shape.
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posted by [identity profile] mrs-bombadil.livejournal.com at 02:43pm on 13/09/2006
heightened airport security

Heck, I could even see her being so paranoid as to refuse to even LET GO of it long enough to go through the metal detector, although that would just be standard security. :p

"I assure you Ms. Rowling, the xray machince can NOT discern actual words on a page!"

I'm kind of glad she's laying off of giving the title until she's closer to finishing.

Agreed!

I was a little nervous, very briefly, about not having been given the title of the book this summer (like we got pre-HBP). However, my new panic date is December 31st.

a VERY tantalizing "Never Asked Question"

I don't have even the vaguest notion of a theory about it. Are you familiar with any of the speculation?
 
posted by [identity profile] mrs-bombadil.livejournal.com at 02:45pm on 13/09/2006
"I assure you Ms. Rowling, the xray machince can NOT discern actual words on a page!"*

*I don't actually even know if that's true. Can you imagine? Bootleg copies of security tape showing up on Ebay!
 
posted by [identity profile] connielane.livejournal.com at 04:28pm on 13/09/2006
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posted by [identity profile] divinemum.livejournal.com at 05:06pm on 13/09/2006
"Can you imagine? Bootleg copies of security tape showing up on Ebay!'

I am torn between thinking that would just be too awesome and that it would be just wrong. ;D
 
posted by [identity profile] ladyvorkosigan.livejournal.com at 04:48pm on 13/09/2006
That IS a tantalizing question. My first guess would be that somehow James knew he and Lily were going to have to die to protect Harry and so gave the cloak to Dumbledore to pass onto him. But than that doesn't jive with them not warning anybody about Peter, and if it were just a guess than it wouldn't be significant.

Or Dumbledore might have, for one reason or another, been with James and Lily the night they died, invisible and unable or unwilling, for some reason, to interfere and taken the invisibility cloak to give to Harry.
 
posted by [identity profile] divinemum.livejournal.com at 05:09pm on 13/09/2006
I'm beginning to have a sneaking suspicion that Dumbledore was at (or one his way) to Godric's Hollow that night, and he got (or took) the cloak from there.

And I totally agree about the title thing. OotP is a great title, but it doesn't quite gel with the book as a whole. I hope she tells us someday what the name of the title she *doesn't* pick!
 
posted by [identity profile] mudblood428.livejournal.com at 07:11pm on 13/09/2006
I did a happy dance just now! Hooray for updates on JKR.com, and no doubt I'll be up late tonight trying to figure out the significance of Dumbledore having the invisibility cloak... (Could it have something to do with Snape? Hmm...)
 
posted by [identity profile] lilac-bearry.livejournal.com at 12:39am on 14/09/2006
Definitely something to do with Snape, I'm sure of it.
 
posted by [identity profile] major-dallas.livejournal.com at 12:22am on 14/09/2006
There you go, major_dallas! She must have heard you!

Takes note... "I wish she'd give us the Title alreay!" *waits to see what happens tommorrow...

As for Dumbledore having Jame's invisibility Cloak, Dumbledore could have been there, but I sincerely doubt that Albus Dumbledore would have stood by and watch Tom murder James and Lily and then attempt to kill Harry too. I just don't see it happening that way.

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