The Death of Harry

[eggplant88 at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 5033

Those who think Rowling would never consider killing Harry will find 
this interview by Evan Solomon disturbing. On the bright side I think 
Ron is safe, she thinks the death of a sidekick is too predictable:

Solomon: Characters take on their own lives, have their own stories. 
Writers often say, "I loved that character and the most tragic part 
of my year was having to kill him off."
 
Rowling: That's coming.

Solomon: Do you know already who is going to die in the next books? 

Rowling: I know all of them who are going to die.
 
Solomon: Some of the characters we might love and you might love? 

Rowling: I'm definitely killing people I love, yeah. It's horrible, 
isn't it? ...I cried during the writing of that one [Book Four] for 
the first time ever. It really upset me. 
 
Solomon: It opens with a murder and then there's one at the end. I 
won't say who it is. You cried then? 

Rowling: Yeah. 

Solomon: But in the future there's --
 
Rowling: There's worse coming. 

Solomon: People love Ron, for example. Kids think you're going to 
knock off Ron because he's the best friend. 

Rowling: Kids do, because they're sharp and they've seen so many 
films where the hero's best friend gets it. So they think I'm going 
to make it personal by killing Ron. But maybe that's a double bluff...
It's not that I sat down with a list and decided to write, "you're 
going, you're going, you're going." There are reasons for the deaths 
in each case, in terms of the story. So that's why I'm doing it. 





> 
>