[HPforGrownups] Re: The editor was sobbing

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 167022

Eggplant:

JKR was asked if she could take one of her characters to dinner who
would it be? Immediately she said "Harry… to apologize to him." She
then paused and said she would pick Ron and Hermione because "I know
who's dead". I would interpret that to mean Ron and Hermione will
survive but Harry will not. At any rate it doesn't sound like the
story is going to have a happily ever after ending.

Eggplant

Lynda:

As a writer myself, if I was asked that same question, which of my
characters would I take out to dinner,
my answer would also be immediate, and a character who's gone through a hard
time (I did that to him) but not because I kill him off at the end of the
story. Its because of all of the things I've put the character through.
Troubles and tribulations. Now I don't know why JKR answered as she did, but
I know that there are other reasons than a character death to have done so.

Lynda


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