OOP: JKR Interview & Death

[medeacallous]

No: HPFGUIDX 61052

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Fred Waldrop" 
<fredwaldrop at y...> wrote:
> Hello all, Fred Waldrop here
> 
> I am sure many of you have read the recent interview with JKR and 
> noticed something she said was different than her usual "fan dies".
> Instead of the usual "fan" of HP dying, in the interview it says: 
> "LONDON, June 18 —  Author J.K. Rowling was so upset about
> killing off one of the main characters in her latest Harry Potter 
> saga that she burst into tears." 
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/928171.asp
> 
> So, no longer is it just a fan of HP, but now she says it is a 
> main character that HAS BEEN KILLED.
> I say this because she went on to say in the same interview:
> "And I walked into the kitchen crying and Neil [her husband] said 
to 
> me, `What on earth is wrong?' and I said `Well I've just killed 
the 
> person.'"

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> 
> Fred Waldrop


The clue for me is that the quote you cited is not actually quoting 
JKR as saying it was a main character.  The author of the piece says 
it is a main character, but has JKR actually stated it?

MC