OK, this rumor is going to die right here

[erisedstraeh2002 <erisedstraeh2002@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52815

Amy challenged:

> 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. 

and Pippin responded:

> Here's evidence that it was only a rumor. CBBC Newsround 
> Online reported on Nov. 22 2002 that JKR revealed "for the first 
> time" at the CoS premiere that there would be a major death in 
> Book Five. Lizo Mzimba quotes her "there's a bad death in it that I 
> haven't enjoyed writing."

Now me:

Before the above interview, I can find no direct reference to deaths 
in Book 5, let alone the death of a Harry fan. Before that interview, 
JKR said that the deaths *start* in Book 4, which implied that 
subsequent books would have deaths in them, but there was no 
specificity about which books they would be, and no indication of a 
fan being the victim.

Here are three quotes I found with their links (all from the 
Aberforths Goat site):

http://books.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4326559,00.html

"The billionaire author reveals that she has already decided the fate 
of all the major characters, and hints that some could be killed off. 
The programme, to go out tonight on BBC1, shows Rowling holding the 
final chapter of the series to the camera and saying 'this is it, and 
I'm not opening it for obvious reasons.'

Describing the chapter, she says, 'this really wraps everything, it's 
the epilogue and I basically say what happens to everyone after they 
leave school, those who survive - because there are deaths, more 
deaths coming...There's at least one death that's going to be 
horrible to write.'"

http://home.scottsburg.com/trinkle/rowlinginterview.htm

"She intimated that as the series progresses the mood may darken. The 
death of one character in the fourth book, she said, is 'the 
beginning of the deaths.'" 

http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/June_2000_Ann_Treneman_The_
Times.htm

"Yes, this is the book in which the deaths start. I always planned it 
this way."

~Phyllis
still hoping for a LOON membership someday