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For "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling, revealing the title of her next book -- the fifth "Harry" adventure -- seemed easier than keeping a lid on it. "I didn't expect to do it now at all, but I did say after (the current) 'Goblet of Fire' that I wouldn't keep it a secret," Rowling told Reuters while attending the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. She also said that she couldn't bear the thought of people rifling through her garbage, looking for clues. Which is how she came to tell a boy in New York last week that the next book will be titled "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." "I didn't have plans to say it just now," Rowling explained. "I thought I would at some point, but then there was this really, really cute little boy who asked, and I thought, oh, he'd look so happy if I told him." So she did.
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