JKR Time web interview

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4712

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> Haven't seen anyone post this URL yet?
> 
> http://www.time.com/time/pacific/magazine/20001030/potter.html
> 
> The most interesting line in this one for me was that when she 
mentioned
> that everyone always pesters her with questions about whether or not
> she's going to kill Ron off, she says: "As if I'm going to kill 
Harry's
> best friend."
> 
> Which sounds as if she's dismissing the idea, whereas I had thought 
that
> up until now she has been careful not to rule it out.
> 
> (Hmm.  Upon rereading, I realize that this could be interpreted 
instead
> to read that she's saying that readers are accusing HER of 
murdering,
> rather than (hypothetically) Voldemort.  A different gloss, which
> doesn't, however, rule out her axing Ron in a later book.  *Sigh*  
Which
> just gives us more to wrangle about.)
> 

Oh, no. No way. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. She's told
us she's not going to have Ron killed off. SHE is in control. NOT
L.V.

Susan