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 |
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I am the only one who noticed that she was wearing a "SNAKE NECKLACE" ... WOOT! She is SOOOO SLYTHERIN!!!! GO SLITHERIN!!!
Oops, let me re-phrase that. I believe it will be either Snape or Draco that will be killed off in book seven because i believe it that those two you either hate or love bringing out the JKR statement that they will be either happy or sad about the killing off of a character. I totally agree that Ron, Harry, Hermione and others are hugely popular but I mean how many will be happy any of those good ones die, I know I wont and neither will any of you. But some of you who hate Draco and or hate Snape will be happy that they meet " thier sticky end". No offence meant.
i dont want the hp 2 end. i wish the movies of harry potter started at least a year after the series ended i bet lots of people dont agree with me but it would be cool it would be like harry potter restarted that would b cool.
Greetings fellow boy wizards! My very credible Aunt Lane a psychic(who actually is professor Trelawny's sister) has informed me that the book 7 will be released within the hour! Jump on your broomstick, grab your gallions and sickles and knuts and ride like your on a stolen firebolt! Last one there is rotten pumpkin juice mixed with house elf boogies! PS- BEATING YOU THERE LIKE HARRY BEAT THE TROLL IN THE GIRLS BATHROOM IN BOOK1. MUDBLOODS! with greatest love- Lois
WOW - the press conference quotes really make it sound like Harry is going to die. I was be SO sad if that's true! But isn't it funny that the other two authors made a plea to Jo to not to kill off Harry?!!? I think that's pretty funny that Stephen King loves Harry enough not to want him to go (and Stephen King is the king of horror stories!). BTW - I agree with all of you - how sad when the series end. And Jo did look fantastic.
OMG!!! i can't wait for book seven, but i really don't want it to end:'( i have a feeling that Jo is going to kill one of the trio, and i know i will seriously cry my eyes out:( i really hope she doesn't though, but at least there are the movies to look forward to. I love Harry Potter!!!
OMG i will cry when Harry Potter ends:(
In the definition... bereavement adds "especially by death". NO!!!!! *dearly hopes its not true*
I have a feeling that Harry IS going to die...we have to face some day that our hero WILL HAVE TO DIE to save the world!!!!! He will die a hero and loved boy! He will take as many death eaters and VOLDEMORT's with him as possiable!!!!!!!! lmao! tee hee hee There are many clues to who the two are... noooooooooooooooooooo! take care love y'all lots like jelly tots and vodka shots x Natasha
"I guess some people will loathe it, some people will love it." Hmmm. That's a big spoiler right there everyone. Harry Potter's gonna die..........
This scares me like anything . . . Ron and Hermione, I love you, and will miss you like mad. And if Harry leaves me . . . us, I mean . . . I'll just . . . just . . . just . . . just. . . . :o(
this is my theory voldimort will kill harry with snape right next to him!!... but right after harry gets killed SNAPE will kill voldimort because if you think about it IF harry comes across SNAPE do you realy think that harry will wait to hear SNAPE'S explation of if he's bad or good... NO... he's not he's gonna kill him RIGHT AWAY!!!!!!!!!!! and there's no other way to have SNAPE tell HARRY that he's good or bad so if what i said above is true we can find out were SNAPE'S loyalties lie and the DARK LORD dies!!!!!!!!!!!... YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
wow... lol. Ok. So, JK. Rowling said the last word would be scar... hmm.. thats cool. I just hope that Harry doesnt die! He will only be 17! or 16!
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