Post by hermoine on Jul 18, 2005 2:45:02 GMT -5
So I guess this is it. There is only one book left for us to delve in, and then, I don't want to think of how everything will change.
The following is an interview JK gave to the 14-year old winner on a TV show who was granted this incredible opportunity:
So, what do you all think will happen? JK said she hints clearly.
Will Harry return to Hogwarts? Will the ships sink?
Could Sirius and Dumbledore make an appearance again? What about Pettigrew?
And is Snape really going to come back to the goodside in the end?
The following is an interview JK gave to the 14-year old winner on a TV show who was granted this incredible opportunity:
Harry Potter author JK Rowling revealed today that she is dreading having to close the final chapter of her seven-part saga about the boy wizard, but the multi-millionairess said she was excited about possibly taking on an assumed name and penning new works as an anonymous writer.
In an interview with a child fan the day after the hugely-anticipated launch of the sixth instalment of the Hogwarts’ wizard tale, Rowling said she would be tackling the final chapter of the story as early as the end of the year.
And she hinted that there are plenty of clues in the latest novel, The Half-Blood Prince, to give eagle-eyed fans a clue of what is in story for hero Harry in the closing pages.
Rowling granted her only British TV interview to teenage Potter fan Owen Jones, who won the chance to chat to the author in an ITV quiz.
Owen, 14, from Cardiff, was shortlisted from thousands of fans after judges picked his list of questions for her.
And in her interview Rowling admitted she had mixed feelings about ending the epic saga.
She told Owen: “I am dreading it in some ways.
“I do love writing the books and it is going to be a shock, a profound shock to me.
“Even though I have known it is coming for the past fifteen years, I have known that the series would end, I think it will still be a shock.
“Conversely, obviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really.”
New mother Rowling said she would be taking some time off to care for her daughter, six-month-old Mackenzie Jean, before tackling the seventh, and last, Potter episode.
Answering Owen’s questions on when she will start the next book, she said: “Not until the end of this year, beginning of next year.
“I have already done some work on it and I am still doing little bits and pieces, but realistically I have still got a very young baby, so I think probably next year I will do the proper writing of book seven.”
She added: “When people have finished reading this book, they will really know what to expect in book seven and I think I give very clear pointers as to what Harry will do next.
“There is plenty to guess at... at least one thing I think people will probably deduce, there is a mystery left at the end, but I think they might already know the answer if they think about it.”
With the end in sight for the tales of the now-16-year-old Harry, Rowling admitted she would quite fancy borrowing a cloak of invisibility from her own pages to escape some of the massive worldwide fame she has attracted with the record-breaking books.
“A fake name is very attractive,” she admitted. “I’ll have less pressure and I can write any old thing I want and people won’t be clamouring for it and that might be nice.
“I get asked a lot whether I would write another series, I don’t know because the thing that interests me about Harry Potter was not the fact that it was a series, it was just the story and the subject matter, so I could do a one-off, could do a series, I don’t know.
“I cannot complain at all, what a fantastic thing Harry Potter has given me.
“But one of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic.”
The Potter books have been translated into more than sixty languages, with the latest edition heading for sales of more than two million in the UK and ten million worldwide already.
The first five Harry Potter books have sold more than 265 million copies in 200 countries and have been translated into 62 languages.
Thousands of bookworms queued through the night in Britain to get their hands on the latest adventure, expected to become the fastest-selling book in history.
But despite her faith in her work, Rowling admitted she had been shocked by the scale of her success.
In an interview with a child fan the day after the hugely-anticipated launch of the sixth instalment of the Hogwarts’ wizard tale, Rowling said she would be tackling the final chapter of the story as early as the end of the year.
And she hinted that there are plenty of clues in the latest novel, The Half-Blood Prince, to give eagle-eyed fans a clue of what is in story for hero Harry in the closing pages.
Rowling granted her only British TV interview to teenage Potter fan Owen Jones, who won the chance to chat to the author in an ITV quiz.
Owen, 14, from Cardiff, was shortlisted from thousands of fans after judges picked his list of questions for her.
And in her interview Rowling admitted she had mixed feelings about ending the epic saga.
She told Owen: “I am dreading it in some ways.
“I do love writing the books and it is going to be a shock, a profound shock to me.
“Even though I have known it is coming for the past fifteen years, I have known that the series would end, I think it will still be a shock.
“Conversely, obviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really.”
New mother Rowling said she would be taking some time off to care for her daughter, six-month-old Mackenzie Jean, before tackling the seventh, and last, Potter episode.
Answering Owen’s questions on when she will start the next book, she said: “Not until the end of this year, beginning of next year.
“I have already done some work on it and I am still doing little bits and pieces, but realistically I have still got a very young baby, so I think probably next year I will do the proper writing of book seven.”
She added: “When people have finished reading this book, they will really know what to expect in book seven and I think I give very clear pointers as to what Harry will do next.
“There is plenty to guess at... at least one thing I think people will probably deduce, there is a mystery left at the end, but I think they might already know the answer if they think about it.”
With the end in sight for the tales of the now-16-year-old Harry, Rowling admitted she would quite fancy borrowing a cloak of invisibility from her own pages to escape some of the massive worldwide fame she has attracted with the record-breaking books.
“A fake name is very attractive,” she admitted. “I’ll have less pressure and I can write any old thing I want and people won’t be clamouring for it and that might be nice.
“I get asked a lot whether I would write another series, I don’t know because the thing that interests me about Harry Potter was not the fact that it was a series, it was just the story and the subject matter, so I could do a one-off, could do a series, I don’t know.
“I cannot complain at all, what a fantastic thing Harry Potter has given me.
“But one of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic.”
The Potter books have been translated into more than sixty languages, with the latest edition heading for sales of more than two million in the UK and ten million worldwide already.
The first five Harry Potter books have sold more than 265 million copies in 200 countries and have been translated into 62 languages.
Thousands of bookworms queued through the night in Britain to get their hands on the latest adventure, expected to become the fastest-selling book in history.
But despite her faith in her work, Rowling admitted she had been shocked by the scale of her success.
So, what do you all think will happen? JK said she hints clearly.
Will Harry return to Hogwarts? Will the ships sink?
Could Sirius and Dumbledore make an appearance again? What about Pettigrew?And is Snape really going to come back to the goodside in the end?
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) and continuing his search for the Horcruxes. That's the main thing. And because we've seen how strong his friendships have grown to be, that also very possibly means that Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny, and Luna will be following suit.
