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As of today chapter 11, which turned out to be a monster of more than 9200 words, is with my editor. I wish her (and myself) luck; we're going to need it.

Totally unrelated thought of the day, triggered by radio news and fouilletons filled with the upcoming book release:

Would Harry Potter be as hilariously popular as he is, if his name were Harald Töpfer?
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You know, I find it interesting that nobody in this conversation has seen fit to point out that 'Harry' doesn't translate as 'Harald' but as something more like 'Heini'. ;-) It's short for Henry.
(But maybe I'm just being overly... linguistic?)

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Maybe because "Heinrich" is a fairly old-fashioned name here, while Harald is still be found also in the younger generation?
And also maybe because HP is always named with the diminutive form "Harry" and not the full-fledged Henry; and as you quite correctly said, the German diminutive of "Heinrich" is Heini, while an also common diminutive of Harald is Harri.
So we have different given name meanings, but equal diminutives for Mr. Töpfer. ;)