Release Date for OoTP Announced by Bloomsbury

Click here for the announcement by Bloomsbury of the June 21, 2003 release date.
Yes, it's Bloomsbury's site, so it *is* official.


Sections from the book on the Bloomsbury site include:

“The hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and a drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive … The only person left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on his back in a flowerbed outside number four.”

“Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses.


‘It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry.

Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.’”