What's to come in Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament, due in July of this year? Rowling knows, but she's not telling. "Before I had finished the first book," she says, "I had plotted all seven books about Harry." There will be one book for each of Harry's years at Hogwarts. At the end of the series Harry will be seventeen.
Rowling does admit that an important character will die in the fourth book. Harry will also get his first crush; Rowling says that "careful readers of book three will already know who the girl is." In book five, we will finally learn why Harry has to spend every summer with those lousy Dursleys.
The character you might be most surprised to see evolve is none other than the Sorting Hat. "There is more to the Sorting Hat than what you have read about in the first three books," Rowling says. "Readers will find out what the Sorting Hat becomes as they get into future books."
One thing readers won't find is the return of Harry's parents. Rowling has said that she had to decide carefully what magic could and couldn't do in her books, and that magic will not bring back the dead. But Harry's parents will continue to be an important part of the stories. In particular, the fact that Harry "has his mother's eyes" will be "very important in a future book," says the secretive author. |
