Maybe Harry doesn't die???

[diznee_baby]

No: HPFGUIDX 154588

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Pamela Rosen <pam_rosen@>
> wrote:
>
> Nope, not quite.  The real quote is:
>
> JK: No, I've never been tempted to kill him off before the end of
Book
> 7 because I've always planned seven books; that's where I want to -
I
> want to finish on seven books.
>
> TEMPTED
>
> Big difference between tempted and intended.
>
> She also goes on to say:
>
> JK: But I can completely understand the mentality of an author who
> thinks I'm going to kill him off because then there can be no non-
> author-written sequels, so they call it.
>
> ". . .THINKS I'm going to kill him off."
>

Newbie here! I just thought I would include JKR's response in it's
entirety(sp?):

JK: But I can completely understand the mentality of an author who
thinks I'm going to kill him off because then there can be no non-
author-written sequels, so they call it. So, it will end with me.
And, after I'm dead and gone, they won't be able to bring back the
character and write a load of...

Being from the US, I was unable, of course, to see the interview
first hand. After reading and re-reading the transcript however, I'm
thinking that she was improperly quoted.

If you read her reponse like this:

JK: But I can completely understand the mentality of an author who
thinks, "I'm going to kill him off because then there can be no non-
author-written sequels, so they call it. So, it will end with me.
And, after I'm dead and gone, they won't be able to bring back the
character and write a load of..."

Notice the quotation marks. If this is, in fact, how she intended her
reponse, then all we have is her communicating her understanding of
what another author might do in her situation. NOT necessarily what
she intends to do.

So we are still back to Harry may, or may not, die. Personally, I'm
hoping for the latter.

DizneeBaby