[HPforGrownups] OK, this rumor is going to die right here

[Trond Michelsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 52814

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:04:50PM -0000, Amy Z <lupinesque at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I had thought I knew the difference between OP facts and rumors, but 
>> apparently not.  So here's a challenge:  if anyone can find a REAL 
>> TRANSCRIPT of a REAL JKR INTERVIEW saying this, it would be a public 
>> service for him/her to post the link here.  This is your chance to 
>> win a lifetime membership in L.O.O.N. (League of Obsessed Nitpickers
>> (tm))!

> Trond wrote:
> What about "earliest reference to the quote"?

Earliest I have found so far was posted in alt.fan.harry-potter
September 27. 2000

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=39D2BA5C.CD0EB10%40midway.uchicago.edu&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

--8<--
Rowling said somewhere that one of the next casualties will be "a
special fan of Harry's."  
--8<--


I also found this a bit interesting:

Posted June 14. 2000

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3946f0ba.524009%40news.budget.net&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

--8<--
Actually in a LA Times Article Interview, she indicated that Yes
a character of importance was going to die.  BUT... it would not
be in Book 4 but later on in the series.  So we don't have to
worry about Dumbledore or Hagrid..  Or Ron...  etc..

See Interview... at  
http://www.latimes.com/living/20000611/t000055551.html

This is in a October Interview...
--8<--

Unfortunately, the article is gone, so I don't know what it actually 
said. Are there anyone from L.A. that feels like taking a trip to the
library to look at microfilms? :-)

Actually, this may be the article, but it'll cost $2,50 to see the
entire text :(

http://tinyurl.com/6f3a

The post also claims that this info was from an interview Rowling mad in
October (presumably 1999). Rowling had a book-signing in LA in October
99, so maybe the interview was made during that visit.


Still nothing to suggest that JKR has ever used the words "fan" and
"die" in the same sentence, though.

-- 
Trond Michelsen