Rowling pens Potter prequel to benefit charity
Reuters is reporting this evening that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has written an 800-word outline of a prequel to the series that will be auctioned off for charity on June 10 in London by Waterstones. This is the charity we told you about a few weeks ago.The article goes to say that:
"The outline, which ends with the line 'From the prequel I am not working on -- but that was fun!' is one of 13 story outlines written for the auction by famed authors including new Bond writer Sebastian Faulks and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing."
The money raised will go to charities English PEN and Dyslexia Action.
Posted by Micah on May 28th |
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Awesome!! i want to read it. =]
First? Yay, I sent this in!
Man, if only I were rich enough to go to all these auctions... Maybe Amazon will get it and add it to the tour of Beadle the Bard? A girl can dream!
I really want that outline!!! I hope Amazon buys it again!!
omg i want to read it soooo badly!!!!:) this looks amazing!! top 5!!!!!
I want to read it!!!!! if there is a contest, im in! TOP TEN!
I wanna read it! Does this mean a new book?
OMG. That sounds amazing and I really want to read it. Jo is rad. :)
Woah TOP 10???!!!!
I want it. like now....
OMG CAN I HAVE IT LIKE NOW, PRETTY PLZ? Maraurders time, possibly?
Awesomeness!!! I want to read it sooooooo badly!!!
AARRRGGHH!!!! I WANT IT NOW!! But if this is the story that Jo is writing that I heard about on MuggleCast, it will be available to the public in some time.
Wait- so what exactly is it? Just an outline of what happened before the night of Lily and James's death? Perhaps the Severus/Lily story? Even as an outline, that would be a great thing to put on her site!
I hope whoever buys it will post it for everyone to be able to read. they would have the ORIGINAL copy so it wouldn't really hurt. or maybe JK can eventually publish this outline and Beedle the Bard for the general public to buy. doesn't have to be fancy or anything, just PLEASE LET US READ IT ALREADY!!
Is it the outline that will be auctioned off or a book? Will this take the place of the encyclopedia she is supposed to be writing? It's funny how she said that she was thru with Harry and yet she isn't. I would like the Prequel and Beetle the Bard and the encyclopedia, and anything else that she wants to write. Go, Jo, go!
after the auction, the book will go up on the bloomsbury site on june 11th. Its gonna be available for the public to buy in august. soo excited!!!!!!
i really want to read this book...is it like a fic about the marauders? or about dumbledore? ahh im so excited!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Coolio! I am so buying the postcard when its available to the public. I'm just so excited for some brand new HP content!!!!!!!!!
ooo! i cant wait to read this! i love how she's so involved with charities. jo is my hero.
While I'm happy with JKR writing more about Harry Potter... Didn't she say somewhere on her site that she would NEVER write a prequel? Something about HP =/= Star Wars? Or am I crazy?
well it says right there that shes not working on a prequel... she just wrote an outline of the would-be prequel for charity
OMG. This is EPIC. About as epic as the new Indiana Jones. No wait- this is even more epic. OMG JO PUBLISH IT IN AMERICA NAO!!!!!!
It'd be nice to see it, like the Black Family Tree. Perhaps it'll wind up in the Encyclopedia.
More proof that JKR is God is right in this article.
oh what a teaser that is! my dream would be to have a prequel...I would give so much to have JK Rowling write James and Lilys story
Gah!! It's going to be auctioned again?!? Oh wellserr, I really hope someone worthy gets it...(Ahem, Amazon) But a prequel??!?! That's just awesome!
SWEET! I just wish there was a way to read it...
Holy crap! Yes, I want to read about it!
i hope it's on the Maurauders.
I'm soooo excited!!! OMG!!!! This is just AMAZING...it's almost like an eight book...except not really!!!!!
I hope it's about Dumbledore and Grindelwald.
Marauders!?!?!?! If only I could get my hands on that....
I'd pay a hefty sum for dat.
At first I thought she meant she wrote an 800-word prequel right on the postcard and it confused me greatly. XD I wanna see the outline though. Marauders, please? XD
Whoa - a PREQUEL?? OMG! That's soooo awesome! =] And we can get it! We who cannot afford to bid on & buy something that expensive.... if i'm not mistaken... we get to buy it on those post card things later this summer! I'M PUMPED!
A prequel!! I hope the fans get to read it...Augh! So excited!
this makes me think that shes considering writing a harry potter prequel, (note how she coyly ends the outline with the prequel i'm NOT writing..) it'd be very much like her to be doing just that. she doesn't need money, she just enjoys writing, however adamant she has been about not continuing in the HP world. I hope i'm right. oh and i need that outline... MOAR!!
I'm excited to read this pre-quil! Looking forward to it.
So that means her book will be about before the series even started. In my opinion, J.K. Rowling should have written the big space lifted in the end of book seven. The 19 years later really is too long!!! What happen in between?
OMG YES!
Well, that's another thing I'll probably never be able to read, but I'm so happy she did it for charity. Genius! Sheer, wonderful genius!
Neat! I'll bet she ends up writing one. A prequel, that is. Note that she calls it "the outline to the prequel she is not working on". Not the prequel she is not going to write. She worded it so that she can still write prequels... she's just not working on one right now. It would be silly for her NOT to write at least one book set in the Marauders' Era, and right up to before Harry's parents die. She's got plenty of story left to tell.
nedless to say,but: I WANT IT!
You know what? As more time goes on, the more JK makes me HATE charities. >_< . . . I used to be for them (and technically still am I suppose), but she keeps writing things exclusively for them, and it's going to drive me mad. Are WE ever going to be able to read this? And the Tales of Beedle the Bard? etc. Or are the loyal fans who have been reading these books and watching these movies, who aren't billionaires just not good enough for her? o_O
Rowling by now so mindset to control her created universe that she no longer write for the general millionswide public but for the happy and wealthy few? I always thought the period between ch 1 and ch 2 of Philosophers Stone was the most irreal part of the whole story: unless you believe that child abuse for ten years going unnoticed by the schoolnurse is standard. So elaborating that part is the last I was waiting for. stop fidling around in the name of charity, lady, and start the real work you keep dangling around, meaning your Encyclopedia.
@almightytallestvoldy 'E ar, 'Ear!
Does anyone even care anymore? It's not like we're benefitting or losing from this... It's just a bunch of stuff that's happening and won't make any changes in our lives... It's kinda silly Rowling giving everything to charity. Why bother calling it Harry Potter at all? No real fan is ever going to get to read it. May as well call it "Prologue of Generic Boy Wizard" or something... Ah well.
people, people, people...why should she not give anything to charity? As a matter of fact, this prequel thing will be posted online after the auction. As in, WE get to read it too.
By all means, Jo, keep on giving to charities! But . . . we poor fans are withering away without any new Potter. My opinion? She's going to realize how much she misses HP, cave, and write a full-length prequel after all. She won't be able to resist . . .
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