JK Rowling Hints to Kill Off Harry Potter

by Merlin-Publishing.com.

JK Rowling has started to write the seventh and final novel in which it is claimed the boy wizard will be killed off. The rest of the content remains well under wraps.

British actor, Jim Dale, who plays Harry's voiceover, told the New York Post: "She's lived with Harry Potter so long she really wants to kill him off."

Perhaps it's not so unbelievable after all, given that Rowling has joked in the past that she might kill of some or even all of the characters in the final book.

Harry Potter actor, Daniel Radcliffe, also hinted that his character might die; "I do maintain there is a possibility he could be killed in the final book," added Radcliffe.

The Potter books have sparked a frenzy about the fate of the main characters. For example, Harry's best friend, Ron Weasley, was tipped to be killed off in novel four, however, he survived.

Here's a list of quotes we've found which may provide further insight into the content of book seven:

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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling says that Alfonso Cuaron, who directed The Prisoner of Azkaban, which opens next Friday, inadvertently foreshadowed events that will happen in books six and seven, which she has yet to complete.

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"I really got goose bumps when I saw a couple of those things, and I thought, people are going to look back on the film and think that those were put in deliberately as clues," Rowling says in an interview released by Warner Bros., which is distributing the movie.

Cuaron, for his part, says "in a way, it was intuition, but everything is so emotionally eloquent, the book gives you all the hints."

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"They are just as frightening as I imagined, just superb," she says. "One of the biggest themes in the book is Harry's conquering the dementors. And the dementors for me were about depression, and not just sadness. I think Alfonso's really done a great job on that, in showing what that can feel like and the circumstance in which you become vulnerable to that."

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She had "really, really loved (Cuaron's most recent film) Y Tu Mamá También. Alfonso just obviously understands teenage boys, and you know my characters are 13 now. ... This is the book where Harry literally learns how to take care of himself. He finds his father, as it were, and he finds two father substitutes, but the one who actually saves his life is himself."

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Similarly, she sees the movie as "Alfonso's version of my world. It's his baby. For the very obvious reason that books and films are such different media, to do a very literal adaptation maybe wouldn't serve the material best, and I think he's done exactly what I hoped he would do. He's put a lot of humor in there, and I think it's fantastic. I'd be very, very surprised if most people didn't find their favorite parts of the book in that film."

Rowling said the process of creating the third book was "the best writing experience I ever had. Of the five books that are published, writing Azkaban was the easiest, and in some ways I think it shows. I was in a very comfortable place when I wrote (number) three: Immediate financial worries were over, and press attention wasn't yet by any means excessive."

Source: USA Today via TLC.

JK Rowling: A collection of quotes about the writing process from various interviews with the author.

Biographical Information: JK Rowling

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