ap_Completion+of+the+series


 * //In December 2005, Rowling stated on her web site, "2006 will be the year when I write the final book in the Harry Potter series."[65 ] Updates then followed in her //****//online diary//** **// chronicling the progress of ////Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows// //, with the release date of 21 July 2007. The book itself was finished on 11 January 2007 in the //****//Balmoral Hotel//** **//, //****//Edinburgh//** **//, where she scrawled a message on the back of a bust of //****//Hermes//** **//. It read: "J. K. Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11 January 2007."[66 ] //**
 * //Rowling herself has stated that the last chapter of the final book (in fact, the epilogue) was completed "in something like 1990".[67 ][68 ] In June 2006, Rowling, on an appearance on the British //**<span class="wiki_link_ext">**//talk show//** **<span style="background-color: rgb(210, 40, 210);"> <span class="wiki_link_ext">//Richard & Judy// //<span style="background-color: rgb(210, 40, 210);">, announced that the chapter had been modified as one character "got a reprieve" and two others who previously survived the story had in fact been killed. On 28 March 2007, the cover art for the Bloomsbury Adult and Child versions and the Scholastic version were released //**