More JKR Interview Excerpts

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From: plinsenmayer
Subject: More JKR Interview Excerpts
Date: 8/11/00 2:42 pm  (ET)

Hi:

More excerpts from Entertainment Weekly JKR Interview (Pt 2) --

In reference to the darkness of the tone of GoF, she has this to say:
". . . .What's very important for me is when Dumbledore says that you have
to choose between what is right and what is easy. This is the setup for
the next three books. All of them are going to have to choose, because
what is easy is often not right."

Ooh!!! Looking so forward to the next 3 --

She says that she absolutely hated killing Cedric & the part that she
cried while writing GoF: the scene where Harry's parents came out of the
wand. "It was the first time I cried writing a Harry Potter book. I got
pretty upset."

Interviewer: "As your fan base is growing larger, and maybe even younger,
do you feel any sense of . . . . responsibilities to their sensibilities?"

JKR: "I cannot write to please other people. I *can't.* When I finish
Book 7, I want to be able to look in the mirror and think, I did it the
way I meant to do it. If I lose readers in the process, I'm not going
to throw a party about it. But I would feel worse if I knew that I had
allowed myself to write something different. .... 'Well, that's great,
but I know what's coming, and I think 6 is a tiny bit too young.' I've
always felt that. ...."

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Penny