BBC Interview

[davewitley]

Just tried both HP:1 and dai1:1 - nobody there, so not sure what 
you've all discussed already, but:

There was a very brief shot of a leaflet saying 'Parsel Force, A 
rattling good service', with a picture of a snake on it. (In the UK, 
Parcel Force is part of the Royal Mail, or Consignia, as it's now 
called)

We got to see her friend Shaun (Sean?) on whom Ron is partly based.  
She said that Ron resembles him in that he is always there when you 
need him.  In the very short time he got he seemed a very nice bloke, 
and JKR obviously thinks highly of him.

She said Platform 9 3/4 was taken from her memory of Kings X - she 
later discovered it was Euston she was thinking of - anyone going 
that way who can take a pic and upload it?

She had some interesting comments on the finality of death in the 
series and how her own mother died during the writing of the first 
book.

There were also shots of notebooks of early drafts of PS - quite 
legible but not enough time to read.

David