Harry Potter Encyclopedia
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- "Yeah. Would it be okay if that's ten years? No one laughed. No, listen, I absolutely intend to do it, but I can't pretend that I'm in a hurry right now. It's gonna be a hell of a lot of work. But I have - I've kept everything and I know where things are and yeah, at some point I will get myself together and do it."
- —J. K. Rowling[src]
The Harry Potter Encyclopedia is to be written by J. K. Rowling as the authoritive guide to all of the creatures, characters, places, and other elements that comprise the Harry Potter universe. In a recent interview with PotterCast, Rowling revealed that she definitely plans to write the encyclopedia, but is in no hurry to write it and refuses to be pressured into it. She refers to it as "The Scottish Book", a reference to the way the play Macbeth is refered to as "The Scottish Play". Among the subjects covered will be the creation method of a Horcrux, how Peter Pettigrew gave Lord Voldemort a rudimentary body, and how and why Florean Fortescue was killed.[1]
Rowling's plans for an encyclopedia resulted in her taking legal action against an individual who planned to publish his own, unauthorized, encyclopedia of the Harry Potter universe. In court testimony in April 2008, Rowling stated she had "recently" begun work on the project. [2]
On September 4, 2009, the website the Leaky Cauldron reported that Rowling's fellow author, as well as friend and neighbour, Ian Rankin, had mentioned in a BBC interview that Rowling had been "making family trees of all her characters" for the encyclopedia[3].
On September 13, 2009, The Sunday Mail published on their website that Neil Blair, a lawyer for Rowling's agents Christopher Little said: "The encyclopedia simply remains something Ms. Rowling would like to complete sometime in the future." [4][5] As such there is no indication as to when, or if, this work will see publication.
[edit] Notes and references
- ↑ J.K. Rowling PotterCast Interview
- ↑ Larry Neumeister/Associated Press, "Rowling Testifies in Lawsuit Over Harry Potter Encyclopedia", Washington Post, 15th April 2008, Pg. C04 (accessed 27th August 2009).
- ↑ http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2009/9/4/ian-rankin-says-jk-rowling-writing-family-trees-and-working-on-scottish-book
- ↑ Attorney for JK Rowling Says Scottish Book is Something to be Completed "Sometime in the Future"
- ↑ Neil Blair: Harry Potter Encyclopedia will be released.. eventually
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