[HPforGrownups] Re: The editor was sobbing

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 166880

Eggplant:
Somewhat lost in all the talk about the book covers is something the
> American editor Arthur A Levine said in an interview on the Today show
> when those covers were unveiled. He confirmed that there would be
> deaths in the book and said he was "sobbing". The interviewer
> commented that must mean somebody we readers like dies, but all he
> would say is "it's a very emotional book". It's not looking too good
> for poor Harry.

va32h here:

Oh I don't know about that. The end of the series will be cathartic for
a number of reasons. I cried while reading the Priori Incantatem
scenses and at the end of GOF, and I wasn't particularly attached to
Cedric. They were just very moving

Harry might lose some people he loves, which will indeed be very bad
for him. But we knew that would probably happen anyway. I have always
believed Harry would live, and seeing the covers I am more convinced
than ever. Harry has such an expression of hopefulness and expectation
on the US cover - he is not dying inside of any book with that cover,
IMO.

va32h


Lynda:

Oh, I found HBP to be very emotional, as did most of my friends. One of them
even threw the book across the room when she finished it because it made her
cry.  I'm going to read the book with a box or two of kleenex at hand, not
knowing who will die...

Lynda


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