Well at least she’s still working on it anyway. :D

I hope it’s not too far away, though I’ll take it whenever it comes!

@Rinny and @Miss Freewind, I totally agree with you. Jo can and should take all the time she needs to complete The Scottish Book, regardless of how soon we fans would like to have it.

I’m going to shamelessly repeat (read: copy-paste and edit) myself from the Ian Rankin thread and say that having those fabled piles and piles of papers and boxes full of notes does not mean that putting together the encyclopedia would be fast, that the Scottish Book would practically compile itself. Quote the contrary, in fact. Like Rinny, I don’t really know anything about putting books together, let alone putting together encyclopedias.. But I would guess that Jo has to go through every single note and piece of paper she’s written about the wizarding world over the years, many of which could be hand-written, and that’s just a start. Putting together something as huge as the Scottish Book would be quite a complicated matter, involving a lot of decision-making, editing and (re-)writing. She has to decide, for example, how to group and categorise things, how to present the entries, what kind of text style or register to use (somehow I can’t see her writing the entries with a rather dull and boring encyclopedia-style text but rather the same humorous, witty style she’s used in the books), etc. And, she also has to decide, for sure, whether she’s ever going to write something new to bridge the gap between the end of DH and the Epilogue. If not, she can include the information in the Scottish Book. And so on and so forth.

Oh and @Peverell62442, that’s a fantastic idea! :) Releasing the Encyclopedia in 2017, either on 2nd May, on the anniversary of the final battle, or on 1st September, on Albus’s first day at Hogwarts, which would be 19 years later. Or, perhaps it could be released on the most obvious day of all, 31st July. :)

I don’t care too much for when as long as it’s definitely coming. I don’t want to wait too long, of course, but I definitely don’t want her to rush into anything either which it doesn’t look like she’s doing, which is good news. This is not the kind of book you have a deadline for. It’s not as if it’s a sequel to anything and we’re hanging off a ciff here, right? Which doesn’t mean I don’t want it – I sure as hell do – it just means that we don’t need it right away.

Does anyone even know what this scottish book is about?

I hope she takes as much time as she needs to make a great book.

Darn!! I want this book and sooner than later!

yay!!!!!!!! another night of cos-play at the local borders!!!!!!

Oh I really hope it’s sometime in the near future. I can’t wait for this!

I hope they release the date soon, but on the other hand, Jo, no pressure!

@fantasylover12001, The Scottish Book is a joking name for the Harry Potter Encyclopaedia Jo has talked about in the past. I believe Jo coined the term herself as an analogy to Macbeth, which is commonly known as The Scottish Play among stage actors, because speaking the name of the play on stage supposedly brings back luck.

I wonder how far back the genealogy will go.

@sgreeter8888, all the way back to the Peverells, I hope.. ;)

Thank you for clearing that up by the way MischeifManaged. I had been wondering why the book was being called that if it had anything to do with Macbeth.

It’s more important that it is done well, than done soon!