Even before the final Harry Potter novel was published there were whispers that JK Rowling was planning to do a Harry Potter Encyclopedia which, far from being a concordance, was basically going to fill in a lot of backstory and answer questions left open by the books. She even went so far as to sue a guy who tried to publish his own.
The idea died out after a while and with the announcement of her new non-fantasy novel it looked like it might not have been happening. But CNN is reporting that her next project appears to indeed be the encyclopedia:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/16/showb...y-potter-encyclopedia-ew/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Check out the user comments - obviously not too many Potter fans in the CNN crowd! Me, I've always considered this the 8th book and a final word. I'm not interested in Rowling writing another Potter novel, but something like this is cool.
Alex
The idea died out after a while and with the announcement of her new non-fantasy novel it looked like it might not have been happening. But CNN is reporting that her next project appears to indeed be the encyclopedia:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/16/showb...y-potter-encyclopedia-ew/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Check out the user comments - obviously not too many Potter fans in the CNN crowd! Me, I've always considered this the 8th book and a final word. I'm not interested in Rowling writing another Potter novel, but something like this is cool.
Alex
, but then I thought "hmm, maybe it could work..."