> Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is finally finished and has a firm release date from the publisher of June 21. It's 768 pages long -- 255,000 words, compared with the 191,000 words of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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This does worry me. I felt that the fourth book was much longer than it should have been. The opening act alone, in my opinion, could have been cut way down without losing much, if any, story development. I got the feeling that because she now had the power to do what she wanted because her words were $$$ to the publishers, that she over did it in length and in some of the content.

As far as the movies go, I hear that the third one will take two years to film. This will make it harder to believe that the stars are the same ages as the characters. They will hit and pass puberty sooner than the we see in the books and I don't know how well a 21 year old can pull off being 17 if the movies do take longer to make. Not because it isn't done but because we will have a point of reference from the first movie on.

Ferrick