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NEW YORK, DEC. 21. Harry Potter readers, here is an extra special holiday gift: J.K. Rowling (in picture) announced that she has completed the sixth Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. ``I know you all expected this to happen on Christmas Day, but I was sure that those of you who celebrate Christmas have better things to do on the day itself than fight your way into my study, whereas those of you who don't celebrate Christmas would definitely prefer not to wait until the 25th,'' the British author wrote in a message posted yesterday on her website. Ms. Rowling noted that while she is pregnant with her third child, she has had the time ``needed to tinker with the manuscript to my satisfaction and I am as happy as I have ever been with the end result. I only hope you feel it was worth the wait when you finally read it.'' With the new Potter book almost certain to come out in 2005, fans should be spared the seemingly interminable three-year wait between Potter IV, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Potter V, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which came out in the summer of 2003. Ms. Rowling did not say whether the new book's length would top the industrial-sized 870 pages of Order of the Phoenix. Ms. Rowling's announcement is also great news for booksellers, who have endured another year of slow sales. More than 100 million copies of the fantasy series, which debuted in 1997, are in print, and Order of the Phoenix sold an astonishing 5 million copies within 24 hours of publication.
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