JKR expects some 'bereavement' after Book 7

At this morning's press conference in New York City, JK Rowling talked a little about deaths in the seventh Harry Potter book: "I guess some people will loathe it; some people will love it."

She also spoke about life after Harry: "On the one hand, I am going to feel sad. Harry's been an enormous part of my life and it's been a turbulent phase of my life and he was always the constant. So there will be a sense of bereavement. But there will also be a sense of liberation because there are pressures involved in writing something as popular. Wonderful though it's been, I think that there will also be a certain freedom in escaping that particular part of writing Harry Potter.

"I feel quite liberated, I can just resolve the story now. And it's fun in a way that it hasn't been before, because finally I'm doing my resolution."

Check out some pictures of Jo at the event here.

If you were in the area this morning and managed to snap some photos of Jo, please let us know!

UPDATE: A report by Reuters includes some additional quotes from the author. Thanks, Richard!

UPDATE 2: Higher quality photos here.

UPDATE 3: Veritaserum has an audio clip from the entire conference here.

Posted by Ciaran on Aug 1st | 63 Comments