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

[Hollydaze]

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> - Death Eaters used to be called something else - Knights of 
> something or other
I can't remember (or rather I have no idea how to spell) what she said but I know that I though it sounded slightly more adult that Deatheater does, in fact it sounded REALLY cool (sorry I know certain people hate that word!) My mum was explaining it to me something to do with satanic worship or some such, if someone could find the name and look up some kind of background search that would be brilliant. The name was within that book about the background of the deatheaters that she mentioned in "Harry Potter and Me" its about half full of tinny writing, I would *so* love to get my hands on that!

> - 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
I have to say I'm hoping that the only reason she refused to say no to this is the same reason she refused to comment on H/D, that there are to many theories out there and she doesn't want to ruin them... yet.

> - DADA teacher isn't Mrs Figg apparently. Or Fleur
OK so who's shocked? (That's a serious question by the way), I want to know what the people who thought it would be one of those two actually think.

> - We're going to learn why Voldemort attacked Harry. And lots of 
> other back story, which sounds good.
Slight correction, she said we would learn why Voldemort was after Harry's parents, not necessarily Harry himself. I know I'm being picky, but there could be a different reason, for all we know (until just over 24 hours time) she could have said yes, we find out, because the reason is that they're Harry's parents. I personally think that unlikely though considering the number of times we've been told LV didn't care for Lily, but nothing has ever been said about James. It does seem, so far, that LV was after both Harry and James.

> 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.
One of the things I found intriguing is that every other interview where she has been question about whether she got writers block she has denied ever having it, this is the first time I've seen her confess to it, even for CoS. Although I'm glad she's happy too although it makes you wonder if perhaps any of that feeling came out in those last few scenes and pages of GoF, kinda adds to the feeling of that Graveyard scene onwards doesn't it (don't know that that was definitely what she was writing at the time though)

I need to re-watch it before I comment more fully really. Although I have to say there was one point where this group and TLC really sprung to mind. It was where she was refusing to show those plans for OoP and she had them tilted away from the camera slightly and I was sitting there thinking "you really think that's gonna be enough to stop people screen capping them and reading them?". It was mainly because she totally hid them from the camera saying she couldn't let it too close but then put them back almost exactly where they were and I just thought, "someone's bound to catch that, oh well!", at least if they have I'm safe in the knowledge that they can't legally post it here until after the book's released.

HOLLYDAZE!!!
Who's annoyed because she can't find her tape with her recording of "Harry Potter and Me" on it! Grrrrr!!!





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