JK Rowling talks about the end of Harry Potter
JK Rowling talks about finally finishing the Harry Potter series:
Author J.K. Rowling said on Tuesday that it was difficult to separate from Harry Potter but “it feels great” to be finished her seven-book series on the adventures of the boy wizard.
Tags: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK RowlingIn an interview to be broadcast later this week on the Today show, Rowling, 41, discusses how her life has been tied up with Harry’s for 17 years.
“When I started, actually I was in a bad place,” she told interviewer Meredith Veira in excerpts released Tuesday.
“And then, you know, life has its ups and downs. So I mean, Harry’s been with me as a result. I think it was that feeling more than any other that I wouldn’t have that world to retreat into again that was painful.”
Rowling was an unemployed single mother when she wrote the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, while sitting in an Edinburgh cafe.
The magical world of Hogwarts School that she created caught on so well that now she is a billionaire.But in the intervening years, she lost her mother, remarried and had a second child, a boy, David Gordon Rowling Murray.
Finishing the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which was released this weekend, was a harrowing experience, she said.
“It was this amazing cathartic moment — the end of 17 years of work,” she said.
“And that was just hard to deal with for about a week. And it’s very much tied into things I’ve done in my life for 17 years that brought back a lot of memories of what had been going on in my life when I started writing.”
Rowling said she was “hard to live with” in the week after she finished writing because of the need to let go of Harry. But it is gratifying to look back on her accomplishment.
“I feel a big sense of achievement,” she said. “I mean, I am sad. But I’ve been sadder.”
The seventh and final book in the series was the fastest-selling book in history in its first 24 hours, with more than 11 million sold in the U.K. and U.S.
Rowling promises she’ll write again, though it hasn’t been revealed what.
“I need to be off writing,” she said.
The interview, taped at Edinburgh Castle on Tuesday, will air Thursday and Friday on the Today show.
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3 opinions for JK Rowling talks about the end of Harry Potter
Dan
Jul 25, 2007 at 11:11
What JKR did with Harry Potter was amazing literature . It will be looked at for decades to come and perhaps after were all gone . I have this feeling that fans are not ready to let go . I see fan fiction being something that will not end for some time . I mean after all its Magic right ? In another
reality Hermione is going its over ? Not a chance you muggles !!
Julia
Jul 26, 2007 at 08:19
I can’t believe that the series is over. I mean, I’ve been kind of living the life of Harry Potter along with him, like some kind of imaginary behind- the- scenes character. I’m so glad that Harry got his happily ever after, but he also got to see Dumbledore and his parents and Sirius and everybody else to talk with them once more.
dmah
Jun 6, 2008 at 00:49
i heard that jk rowling wrote the original ending to deathly hollows when she was drunk and depressed in a hotel room, she took it to her editors and they said the ending was too dark and she needed to rewrite it for her younger audience. anyone know anything about that?
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