Just where is JKR getting her info from?/Book 6 progress

[justcarol67]

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Geoff wrote:
> Unless she emulates the last episode of "Blake's Seven" and kills
all the goodies off, there'll be folk around and, hoping that my wish
re Harry is observed, we can spend our time speculating where our 
friends have gone, especially [if] JKR makes the last chapter an
epilogue outlining what has happened to folk. <snip>

Carol responds:

She's already stated in a December 28, 2001 interview that that's
exactly what she intends to do:

"Rowling promises sex and death in Potter books

"Emma Yates

"In a revealing interview for the BBC, JK Rowling has said that she
has already written the last chapter of the final Harry Potter book,
and that some of the boy wizard's adventures to come will make for
distressing reading.

"The billionaire author reveals that she has already decided the fate
of all the major characters, and hints that some could be killed off.
The programme, to go out tonight on BBC1, shows Rowling holding the
final chapter of the series to the camera and saying 'this is it, and
I'm not opening it for obvious reasons.'

"Describing the chapter, she says, 'this really wraps everything, it's
the epilogue and I basically say what happens to everyone after they
leave school, those who survive - because there are deaths, more
deaths coming...There's at least one death that's going to be horrible
to write.'

The rest of the interview can be read at 

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2001/1201-guardian-yates.htm

The only thing that bothers me is the phrase "after they leave
school." Isn't she going to tell us what happens to the grown ups?
Surely it won't just be kids who survive!

And as I've said before, the last word in the book (read epilogue) is
"scar." That would be a pretty odd word to end with if Harry doesn't
survive!

Carol

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