Book six title: It's official! -
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First it was 'The Green torch', then 'The Pillar of Storgé', but now it's official. The title to the sixth installment of the Harry Potter series has been released to the public. Read on to find out...
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Well, the infamous door on the JKR website was opened yesterday and readers were met with a brick wall, once overcoming this they where treated to what they thought was the 'working title' for the second book.
But instead JKR had some even better news...
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Well, the door opened at last and I [JKR] showed you the title of book six - the genuine title, the title that will appear on the published book, the title I have been using in my head for ages and ages.
So it's official, the sixth book will be called...
Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince
and JKR has confirmed that she is not referring to Harry nor Voldemort. And that's all she will be saying on THAT subject until it's published. Also book 2 contains alot of hints about the end of the series, so it's time to look deeper into the Chamber and see what secrets can be recovered.
www.jkrowling.com UPDATE: Since some of you are having problems accessing the Flash version of her site, I post the whole article as she wrote it, word-for-word:
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Tuesday 29 June 2004
Title of Book Six: The Truth
Well, the door opened at last and I showed you the title of book six - the genuine title, the title that will appear on the published book, the title I have been using in my head for ages and ages. Unfortunately, however, the door opened on the very same day the ‘Pillar of Storgé’ hoaxer struck, which left a lot of Harry Potter fans bemused as to whether I was having a joke at their expense by posting another fake title to ‘teach hoaxers a lesson’, something I certainly wouldn’t do, as it would simply frustrate, confuse or annoy the 99.9% of you who aren’t hoaxers! I tried to give a clear hint that the title behind the door was the real one by making the ‘Toenail’ joke as well (see ‘Rumours’). But just to clear up matters once and for all…
Information you take directly from this site will be truthful and accurate (I might occasionally joke, but as time goes on, you’ll learn to tell when I’m joking). Do not trust anybody else claiming to have found information on this site that you cannot access, however seemingly convincing the images they provide to support their story.
I never post information on the site that I do not want fans to read immediately. In other words, anybody claiming to have ‘discovered’ a message that wasn’t due for release yet is lying. There was never anything meaningful behind the door until the ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign came off!
The ‘Pillar of Storgé’ was never my title, and I did not change it at the eleventh hour because I was ‘found out’ (I nearly fell off my chair giggling when I read this).
I was delighted to see that a hard core of super-bright fans knew that the real title was once, in the long distant past, a possibility for ‘Chamber of Secrets’, and from that deduced that it was genuine. Certain crucial pieces of information in book six were originally planned for ‘Chamber of Secrets’, but very early on (first draft of Chamber) I realised that this information’s proper home was book six. I have said before now that ‘Chamber’ holds some very important clues to the ultimate end of the series. Not as many as six, obviously, but there is a link.
Anyway: if you continue to exercise patience, you will find that the Do Not Disturb Door opens again… and again… giving you further hints about book six. But as a little bonus, and compensation for having been messed around by Mr. or Ms. Storgé, I shall tell you one thing without making you shift any bricks at all: the HBP is neither Harry nor Voldemort. And that’s all I’m saying on THAT subject until the book’s published.
You can also
access it via the "text-only" link and then by clicking "News".
UPDATE 2: Dumbledore made
this great walkthrough that shows you exactly how to get past the Brick Wall in the secret room. (Thanks to
TLC for the help figuring that out!)
UPDATE 3 (June 30): This is an article from the Newspaper the Press-Telegram in the News section, on pg. A22, on Wednesday June 30th, 2004:
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J.K. Rowling has made an important announcement. Said proclomation was unfurled on the best-selling writers website, www.jkrowling.com. The comminique disclosed vital information about Harry Potter. It was a crucial edict about the title of the sixth tome in the Potter oveure. It shall be called, the promulgation promulgated, "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince." Teusday, the author's literary agent confirmed Rowling's disclosure, adding that there was no release date yet for the novel. For the fascinated, www.wizardnews.com has information about the path Rowling took in her quest to find that title. Thanks to SS member
princess of*hp* for this!
