im telling you JKR will update this week weith it

That doesn't mean anything. Amazon is just saying that so people start thinking about ordering it from them. Also, "soon" doesn't mean in a month or two it probably means half of a year or more. J.K. hasn't even finished the book.

yay! i'm so excited.

oh god they are killing us here! announce a date allready!!

I had heard a rumor that 07/07/2007 was the release date of the last book. I think that it is such a big deal overall that everything including the title will be a secret possibly for obvious reasoning not to spoil anything.

I can imagine since it is such a big deal there is so much security surrounding the book and all that it is highly possible that the book could be complete and her camp is kept quiet so as to not give out any spoilers.

I used to work for an author a very popular one (Anne Rice) and you had to keep things underwraps especially when the fandom is so large.

Just my opinion not fact.

Very interesting. Unless they know something we don't I believe it's wishful thinking.

I'm not sure if it means anything since the new book isn't compelted yet. I'm sure it takes time for the editor to look at it, any revisions made and then sending it to the publishing house.

I will be extremely surprised if we see the book in 2007. I'm sure anything is possible but I'm doubtful right now.

I hope it comes out sometime in 2007!

Yes editing does take time as does revisions but couldn't they be almost done and we just don't know it yet? Pure speculation and yes wishful thinking but there is a possibility.

I remember reading her not being able to get on the plane with "the manuscript" and finally she was able to fly with it in her possession. Could it be that that were revisions and changes?

You never know but it would be great to have it out next year but remember the movie is also coming out so I don't think both will be release to conflict but it would be a good thing ...

hmm...
if that's so, im excited !!

OMG OMG OMG OMG

*spazzes massively*

I so hope they're right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pfft. "soon" has a different meaning depending on the point of view. "soon" can be next year, or it could be next month.

I want specifics before I start cutting out other things I love.

aw man i gotta get that calendar! eeks! the day is drawing nearer... are we ready?

Gosh, I can't wait to see it.

"soon" means anything...like next year

soon can mean anything. soon in different people's terms means different things. very vague.

i saw that calendar. i want to know the release date already!

OH MY GOD!!!!!The season what I've been waiting for!!!!Hope it is true.....

There are too many legal aspects to cover in order to release the book. It won't be out for a while.

Here is what yahoo's home page had this morning on JK ....

Rowling finds finishing final Potter book a nightmare
Wed Dec 20, 4:15 PM ET

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said she is having bizarre dreams about being the boy wizard as she struggles to finish the final book in the hugely popular series.

The author wrote on her website that she dreamt for the first time that she was in Potter's head and roaming around the magical world she has created for him.

The 41-year-old hinted that the stress was getting to her as she writes the closing chapters of the seventh and final Potter novel -- in which she has hinted that the beloved hero may be killed off.

"I'm now writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or even more," Rowling revealed.

"I don't think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels. I am alternately elated and overwrought.

"I both want, and don't want, to finish this book (don't worry I will)," she wrote.

She then described her odd dreams about Harry's world, which Potter fans are sure to scour for clues about what may happen in the final book.

"For years now, people have asked me whether I ever dream that I am 'in' Harry's world," Rowling wrote.

"The answer was 'no' until a few nights ago, when I had an epic dream in which I was, simultaneously, Harry and the narrator.

"I was searching for a Horcrux (a magical object in Rowling's books created through the use of the Dark Arts) in a gigantic, crowded hall which bore no resemblance to the Great Hall as I imagine it.

"As the narrator I knew perfectly well that the Horcrux was jammed in a hidden nook in the fireplace, while as Harry I was searching for it in all kinds of other places, while trying to make the people around me say lines I had pre-arranged for them.

"Meanwhile waiters and waitresses who work in the real cafe in which I have written huge parts of book seven roamed around me as though on stilts, all of them at last 15 feet (4.5 metres) high."

She added: "Perhaps I should cut back on the caffeine?"

The seventh novel is reportedly due to be published next year at the earliest.

The first six books in the Potter series have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide and been translated into 63 languages, making Rowling Britain's highest-earning woman. The novels have also been turned into hit films.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth movie in the series, is currently being filmed and is due for release next year.

Rowling said she recently went on a day trip to the film studios where she saw 20 minutes of footage "which looks fantastic."

That is the entire report on Yahoo's home page this morning so it does look positive as we now have a title ... I am sure someone knows the time from title to release of the HBP ... I don't have that good of a memory.

Yes would have to agree but she maybe well into working those aspects out as we all ponder.

sweetness!

Psh, I don't believe that.

I seriously hope they're right about this. The sooner it's released, the better!

I hope they are right, but... i don't think it means anything!!

I can't wait!!!!!!!!!! But how soon is soon. I mean soon could mean a year if the original thought was 3 years. I'll be sooooooo sad that the sereis has come to the end though.