Harry Potter and the Last Book (Now with Discussion of Books 1-6!!)

Originally Posted by evergreen

Primarily though, I wanted to use this as a vehicle to put forth an oft-discussed possibility: what if J.K. Rowling dies before completing the last book?

My guess is that they'd do what they did when Douglas Adams died: go through her writing, find anything that's more or less finished, and publish what's there along with any other interesting odds and ends they find among her notes.

At the moment, I'm mostly speculating about whether (should we bother marking spoilers for book 6 any more? Oh well, whatever...)...

Spoiler:

...Harry is going to go back to Hogwarts in the fall or go off looking for those Horcruxes (sp?). It seems like things have gotten to the point where it's moved way beyond the scope of Hogwarts, and Dumbledore's death might have been symbolic of Hogwarts "dying" in the sense of being a central setting for the story. But then, maybe they'll have gathered most of the Horcruxes over the summer and he'll go back to school regardless. I'm not sure which one I'm hoping for at this point. The more I think about it the less it makes sense for him to spend the year at Hogwarts, but still... Off looking for magic items, possibly with his friends in tow? It'd be "Harry Potter and the RPG Quest".

Jam it back in, in the dark.