Good news as reported by MOBYlives...

Rowling so happy she could pop, but will first give birth to Harry — by Christmas? . . .
Maybe it was in response to recent articles once again pressing the point that her manuscript is severely late. Or maybe it was in response to the news on Wednesday that she'd won her lengthy legal battle against charges of plagiarism (see yesterday's MobyLives newslog). In any event, J.K. Rowling gave such an ind–depth interview to the Times of London yesterday that they had to represent it in three separate articles today. In the first story, interviewer Brian MacArthur distills the news that Rowling is on "the final stages" of the fifth Harry Potter novel, and "it may even be ready for Christmas." In the second piece, MacArthur runs greater chunks of the actual interview, and Rowling describes the drawn–out court case against Nancy Stouffer as "hellish" and "massively stressful." When asked what she'd said when her lawyer called to say she'd won, Rowling replies, "Something you can't print." And the Times third item is a brief report: Rowling is expecting her second child this spring.