Excerpt from the press conference with J.K .Rowling:CBBC News round
Vhari Leishman for Bloomsbury.com - I was wondering at the end of the seventh book would we get into a glimpse of Harry and Hermione post-Voldemort lives, in an epilogue or accompanying book (assuming they live through the book 7)?
JK Rowling: That is very good that, is assuming that anyone survives, I may kill the whole lot not really, don't write me letters. There is already a chapter written in which you find out about the survivors post Hogwarts fates, so, I will have to rewrite it when I get there, because that was written years ago and it wasn't really written on the assumption that I would use it as it is written in the hooks, it is really an act of faith, it was me saying to myself "I will get here and this information is the end point and that is where I'm trying to get to. So yes, there will be.
Jasmine Lane for the Sunday Mail from Brisbane - How many pages have you planned for the seventh book and are you thinking of finishing Harry Potter off or leaving the ending open for the future?
JK Rowling: I do not yet know really how long the seventh book will be, although I have a plan, I have not yet plotted it out chapter by chapter, so I cannot really tell you. I do not think it will be as long as Order of the Phoenix, but I am going to reserve the right to make it as long as that if I want to. Am I going to finish Harry off? I cannot possibly tell you that, I'm sorry.
Tristan Kent for the Victoria Herald Sun, Australia - Why did you need to kill people that are close to Harry?
JK Rowling: Do you mean - Why are you such an unpleasant woman? Well, I do not enjoy doing it, obviously, but when you have a hero who is growing up and growing to fulfil a certain destiny, which Harry now is, the ruthless answer is it is much more interesting for him to do that alone. So in terms of your story and your plot and also when you are trying to show the journey of a child into a man really which is what Harry is, the next book he is going to come of age within the wizarding world, so legally actually a man, that is a dramatic and poignant way of showing that journey is to strip him of the people closest to him.
That and I am nasty obviously!
end of interview
This should answer any possible dilemma about what Rowling said or did not say !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😊
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