One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Annemehr]

Constant2Chatter:
> > This is exactly my point, I have three kids who EACH have a set 
of 
> the
> > books and share a set of family movies, that's well over a 
thousand
> > dollars investment.  I have also been on the boards since 1997-98 
> and
> > have a very personal investment here too.  The actual interview is
> > censured here, but I gather from boards like muggle net, snitch
> > seekers Etc. I have 5 listed right from JKR official site in 
honored
> > web sites and fan clubs. that she did have a chapter edited out 
of 
> the
> > last book. I wish someone would find the thing and tell me where 
to
> > get it.
> 


Susan:
> Would you mind posting the citation for this? I am interested..
> 

Annemehr:
I think Constant2Chatter is talking about how JKR changed the 
epilogue.  Here's the relevant bit from the Toronto Press Conference, 
22 October 2007 (though as I recall, she said this sometime earlier 
also):

JKR: How much I had to tweak in the Epilogue? The changes I... Not so 
much, actually. Most of the tweaking was done to reveal less 
information, rather than more. As originally conceived, the Epilogue 
pretty much crowbarred in every possible piece of information I could 
give you about their future lives just because that was where I 
always knew I was heading. So I knew I had a lot of information and I 
when I first wrote that all down, that was the point I'm saying it 
for. The big tweak, I suppose, was Lupin's son. Because until the 5th 
book in the series, Order of the Phoenix, I had intended Lupin to 
stay alive. So then it became a focus of the epilogue - one of the 
focuses - to make sure that he knew, even if he doesn't physically 
appear, that he was okay.

http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/1022-torontopressconf.html


But note how she said it was originally about people's future lives --
 which means there would have been nothing about DD anyway as he was 
dead.

Annemehr