OOP : Paxman / JKR interview (mild JKR given SPOILERS)

[jonathandupont]

No: HPFGUIDX 61126

[Already posted to The Leaky Cauldron mailing list}

So, what did everyone else who saw it think? I was quite impressed 
with Paxman's knowledge, although he's probably just got good 
researchers. No big spoilers (JKR would only read one explicit 
sentence from OOP out loud), but still interesting so

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- Seems definitely like there's gonna be kissing coming up

- Also Harry gets angry a lot apparently. Oh joy.

- Death Eaters used to be called something else - Knights of 
something or other

- Book 6 probably shorter than 5. JKR was much amused to hear that 
OOP is longer than the New Testament, although she thought the 
Christian fundamentalists would probably make something of it

- JKR *isn't* richer than the Queen. Or at least she didn't know 
about it, anyway

- She refused to deny Hermione / Draco :) (although mostly 'cause 
she didn't want to ruin fan speculation) and what sort of vague 
about Lily / Snape

- DADA teacher isn't Mrs Figg apparently. Or Fleur

- We're going to learn why Voldemort attacked Harry. And lots of 
other back story, which sounds good.

The thing I was most pleased to hear was that JKR seems to be 
genuinely happy now, whereas with GOF apparently she was tempted to 
break her arm, just to get out of the pressure. The break was a real 
stress reliever for her.

Jon