Post by Ritsu on Jun 28, 2006 7:59:48 GMT -5
LONDON, England (AP) -- 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 in London.
Rowling declined to commit herself about Harry, saying she doesn't want to receive hate mail. (Watch what else Rowling said that suggests Harry will die -- 1:24)
"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 cinemas in July 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 Fiennes) and his followers. Daniel Radcliffe is returning as the title character, and Emma Watson and Rupert Grint reprise their roles as Hermione and Ron. Oscar-nominated actress Imelda 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."
Source: CNN.com
"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 in London.
Rowling declined to commit herself about Harry, saying she doesn't want to receive hate mail. (Watch what else Rowling said that suggests Harry will die -- 1:24)
"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 cinemas in July 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 Fiennes) and his followers. Daniel Radcliffe is returning as the title character, and Emma Watson and Rupert Grint reprise their roles as Hermione and Ron. Oscar-nominated actress Imelda 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."
Source: CNN.com
She also says killing Harry would kill all possibilities for someone to write a sequel, other than her. What do you think of this? It came on a Portuguese newspaper too, and I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't know about it beforehand, since that particular newspaper isn't very accurate and tends to make up things like that.
So, she's right when she says that pure evil doesn't go for the supporting characters but for the main ones. She also says that one of the main characters survives, but two of them get killed. I don't want to think she's talking about the trio itself, and she can't possibly kill Ron and Hermione. Or, if Harry does die, Ron and Harry. Or Harry and Hermione. But specially Ron, I don't want Ron to die. Sirius was already a very big shock, now Ron...? And the whole thing of Harry dying, it doesn't make much sense to me. Well, the possibility was always there, with the prophecy and all, and now with Harry dying maybe he dies while killing Voldemort, but did JKR think of the shock and trauma all the kids will suffer? I'm not talking about us who've liked the series since it first came on, we can handle shock pretty good - although I know I'll cry - but little kids who just started reading the series and for whom Harry's the hero. She'll have to make up a pretty good explanation of death so they'll accept it well. I don't know. I think that by killing Harry she's exposing herself to too many risks.
And as for the other characters that she says will die, who do you think she's talking about? I think one of them is either Ron or Hermione, because those are really the main ones and the ones whom we'd never thought could be killed.
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Okay, more:
- The final chapter for book 7 has changed slightly – 2 more people have died than she originally planned and 1 other person has got a reprieve
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