Rowling partially ‘relieved’ to be at the end

Aug 2nd, 2006 | by CousinPaulie | Posted in books, movies, press | Comments Off

Earlier this morning, Harry Potter author JK Rowling attended a press conference ahead of her charity reading with Stephen King and John Irving. At the press conference Ms. Rowling commented that she will have to go through a bereavement process when finished writing the last book in the series.

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.

When asked about the two deaths that she previously mentioned, Ms. Rowling said:

I guess some people will loathe it, some people will love it.

You can now see pictures here from the event.

Meanwhile, John Irving and Stephen King
urged Ms. Rowling not to kill of Harry off in the last installment, but Rowling made no promises.

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