LATimes article (was) OK, this rumor is going to die right here

[Petra Pan]

No: HPFGUIDX 52899

Trond Michelsen:
> 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? :-)

Nah, just need internet access, library 
card and too much time on hand. <g>

> 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.

Since you asked, you shall receive.  
The following is from a piece in the 
Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2000, 
with the headline of "Secrecy Casts 
a Magic Spell Over the Latest 
Harry Potter. The title and plot of 
J.K. Rowling's upcoming tale of the 
boy wizard are being closely guarded, 
which is helping to escalate readers'
desire for book No. 4."

     *     *     *

Internet chat rooms are buzzing 
with theories about what will 
happen to the young wizard and 
his classmates at the Hogwarts 
School of Witchcraft and 
Wizardry. The main topic: 
Who's going to die?

Last year, Rowling began 
hinting that her seven-volume 
series would grow increasingly 
dark and that book four would 
include some deaths.

"It is only by killing someone 
the reader cares about that you 
will have a sense of how evil 
it is to extinguish human life," 
she told the Telegraph Magazine.
 
Distressed fans have since 
beseeched the 34-year-old 
author to spare the life of 
one or another favorite 
character, often Ron or 
Hermione, Harry's closest 
friends. Rowling has refused 
to identify the first corpse, 
but in October she told the 
Los Angeles Times, "You don't 
have to worry about a really 
key character [dying] until 
later in the series." 

     *     *     *

I was unable to track down the 
October article referenced above 
though.  Go figure.

Petra
a
n  :)

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