[HPforGrownups] "Special Fan" - fact or fiction...and why was it painful to write

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Rebecca Sylvester wrote:
> Like you Kristen, I looked and looked for any reference to the "special 
> fan" of Harry Potter
> <<Did anyone ever find the reference to the "special fan" of Harry's>> 
> and have never found one.  I do recall the interview where it was stated 
> that writing the death of this particular person was difficult to write 
> and my own personal theory agrees with your second theory
> <<b) the character is special to JKR>> I think that it is someone that 
> JKR feels a special bond with, either because it reminds her of someone 
> from her own life or because he/she is close to a character based on 
> someone from her life.  I am anxious to find out who it is, thus ending 
> the arguments, but I would love to hear other theorys.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rebecca
> 
  Digger writes:

I think that the difficult death JKR had to write for OOP was Lily 
and/or James. I predict we will find out much more about their death 
scene, not just hear the sketchy details we have heard before. All the 
grisly details will be related, by Lily herself, to Harry, in the land 
of the dead.

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