JKR's live chat -- excerpts

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 173821

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rt11guru" <ken.fruit at ...> wrote:
>
> A major question resolved here:
> 
> 
> Snapedinhalf: You promised that someone will do magic late in life in
> book 7. I've now read it three times but cant work out who it might
> have been! Please help!!
> 
> J.K. Rowling: I'm sorry about this, but I changed my mind!
> J.K. Rowling: My very earliest plan for the story involved somebody
> managing to get to Hogwarts when they had never done magic before,
> but I had changed my mind by the time I'd written the third book.
> 
> As I had suspected, the character was "hyped in the trailer" but ended
> up "on the cutting room floor".
>


Alla:

Hmmmm, I did not suspect that. I thought it was Merope. Oh well.

Among many other things I loved was this one :


"Louie: Did mariettas pimply formation ever fade

J.K. Rowling: Eventually, but it left a few scars. I loathe a traitor!"


Alla.