i agree. Jk rowling is probably too busy with the half blood prince to write back.

I don't really mean to be so negative but realisticaly who knows i mean she hasn't even answered the poll on her website yet and thats been on there a long time the "what does DD mean about remember the last howler....."
it would be cool if she did though,

She should reply. She cant be that busy if she spends some of her time surfing Harry Potter websites!

I think she'll be kind enough to address this on her site.

^You guys make her sound like she's heartless!

I didn't mean too lol shes not heartless she has given us all like the best book ever..... :flowersmile:

maybe she may address a couple of things out of the letter on her website lets hope so anyway

Those are some great questions that I would love to see answered!

Still, I hope she doesn't respond to the open letter.

She can rather answer them in a follow-up "encyclopedia" book like she has suggested she may do after book 7.

We're patient and don't mind waiting.

Poor JKR, sometimes she reminds me of a defendant in court: all these people cross-examining her whenever they get a chance about what happened when how exactly, and everyone hoping to catch her off guard and to find a contradiction or a leak in her statements ... of course those people are all great fans; still, it must be tiresome for her!!

hmmm.....that's a lot of questions to answer......

yeah it must be really hard for her having to think carefully about every little thing she says or does but she has compensated in other ways such as becoming mega rich..

also i agree an encyclopedia would be great but i couldn't imagine her doing it for a while i should imagine after she has done book seven she'd go on a long holiday lol but a encyclopedia could be good closure for her and Harry P fans

I wasnt being mean, or trying to make her look bad, i was just saying that she would be too busy to write back, as she is probably wanting to release the hpb before the end of the year.

I think she can answer some with no harm to her plans (like the thing about the core of the wands, people's ages and birthplaces etc...) I think asking about Godric's Hollow is pushing it a bit, as is asking about how James ended up Head Boy.

I know more about HP than Mugglenet and Lexicon??? Okay, well I seriously doubt that... but I do know the first names to some of the teachers listed there. It's Rolanda Hooch and Pomona Sprout . I read it off the back of a chocolate frog package.

They also want to know what house myrtle was in, but I know she was a Ravenclaw.

they sound as if they are demanding answers. well i wouldnt really want to know the answers, i would rather wait for info in the books, i like finding out clues myself and on snitchseeker.

The thing is they have asked her solicitor and he gave them the go-ahead so if she doesn't answer any then that would make it mis-leading.

its wierd that they asked her solicitor doesn't anyone think?

Not really. It makes sense to ask; if they hadn't then they might've ended up writing it with absolutely no response at all. Seeing as they asked first I think she probably will give them something at least. Like I said before, giving houses, ages and dates wouldn't be detrimental at all.

i suppose so. but dont you feel like when you get these questions answered early its like someone tells you the ending of a book?

No - simply because none of these questions relate to the next two books in specific. They're just asking for confirmation on facts.

im not trying to debate or anything,but what if they do relate to the rest of the story and the reason jkrowling refrained from telling us is because of that?

Haha, just what I said, JKR is the "defendant" here..
No, seriously, I think this has to do with copyright stuff - when a writer sells a book to a publisher, he transfers most of the rights on that story & all the characters in it to the publisher, same with film rights. That means the writer can't divulge information about his own work freely anymore if the companies who own the copyrights feel he/she shouldn't ... so JKR can get in trouble if she releases stuff against the will of the owners. I'm sure she has tons of contracts with them that cover all these rules in detail...

Having read through them, I can see why one or two might but the majority don't.

That sounds right but I don't like the way in which it might appear she lets them control her creativity too much. I mean, imagine having to OK everything for her site with WB first? What a nightmare/headache!

My point exactly.


And it's Filius Flitwick and he's a Ravenclaw. HoH, if I'm not mistaken

Um when you copyright something, you the person with the copyright own whatever that is

and you sell THE RIGHT to someone to use whatever you copy righted, you dont sell them the copyright

so JK sold warner brothers and whoever her publisher is the right for them to use HP to make movies and publish her books, but she owns the name HP and all the related things with it.

like if someone starting writing a book and used the name harry potter, JK could sue them for copyright infringment, not warner brothers

I wouldn't be surprised if she really had to run everything she publishes on her site by WB in-house lawyers first! There's so much money involved here, I'm sure they have a whole legal department devoted to JKR issues only! That doesn't necessariliy have to hurt her creativity, she just has to be careful what she says. I know they do it in big Hollywood movie productions too; when actors give interviews there, they often have a lawyer-watchdog sitting with them in the same room to make sure nothing is said that isn't intended ... again, whenever there's loads of money involved, there's almost certainly also loads of lawyers involved. :/