[bksvol-discuss] [OT] FW: Two Characters to Die in Final Potter Book
- From: "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare.org-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:25:24 -0400
Hello Potter heads,
You might find the following interesting.
Pratik
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[mailto:Science-Fiction@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carole McDonnell
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 7:52 AM
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Subject: Two Characters to Die in Final Potter Book
I think this is understandable. Plus, didn't CS Lewis knock off a couple of
his characters in the Narnia series?
LONDON (June 26) - Author J.K. Rowling said two characters will die in the
last installment of her boy wizard series, and she hinted Harry Potter might
not survive either.
"I have never been tempted to kill him off before the final because I've
always planned seven books, and I want to finish on seven books," Rowling
said Monday on TV here.
"I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who
thinks, `Well, I'm gonna kill them off because that means there can be no
non-author-written sequels. So it will end with me, and after I'm dead and
gone they won't be able to bring back the character'."
Rowling declined to commit herself about Harry, saying she doesn't want to
receive hate mail.
"The last book is not finished. But I'm well into it now. I wrote the final
chapter in something like 1990, so I've known exactly how the series is
going to end," she said.
Some characters might die, but the blockbuster movie franchise lives on.
Warner Bros. Pictures has announced that the fifth installment will be
released in U.S. theaters, including Imax screens, on July 13, 2007.
In "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," directed by David Yates, the
teenage Harry continues to battle the evil Lord Voldemort (again played by
Ralph <javascript:;> Fiennes ) and his followers. Daniel <javascript:;>
Radcliffe is returning as the title character, and Emma <javascript:;>
Watson and Rupert <javascript:;> Grint reprise their roles as Hermione
and Ron. Oscar-nominated actress Imelda <javascript:;> Staunton plays the
malicious, frumpy Professor Dolores Umbridge, who tortures Harry.
In her Monday interview on the "Richard and Judy" show, Rowling said people
are sometimes shocked to hear that she wrote the end of book seven before
she had a publisher for the first book in the series.
"The final chapter is hidden away, although it's now changed very slightly.
One character got a reprieve. But I have to say two die that I didn't intend
to die," she said. "A price has to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil
here. They don't target extras do they? They go for the main characters.
Well, I do."
Rowling is the richest woman in Britain - wealthier than even the queen -
with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine last year at more than $1
billion.
Whatever she writes next, Rowling is sure of one thing: It won't be as
successful as Harry Potter.
"I don't think I'm ever going to have anything like Harry again. You just
get one like Harry."
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Carole McDonnell
The Windfollower April 2007 Juno Books
alternate email: carole.mcdonnell (at) gmail (dot)com
www.geocities.com/scifiwritir/OreoBlues.html
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