Monday, August 21, 2006

Potter in news again

Is it J K Rowling's another publicity stunt?

Rowling, who kills two characters in the novel, told the New York audience that she was certainly not looking forward to their deaths.

The task was easier however, for she insists that she has already done her ‘grieving’.

"I didn't enjoy killing the character at the end of book six. But I had been planning that for years, so it wasn't quite as poignant as you'd imagine. I'd already done my grieving when I actually came to write it," she added.

The following piece is really funny.

Top authors plead for Potter’s life

Washington: While Harry Potter fans all around the world wait with bated breath to see what JK Rowling has in store for the boy wizard in the seventh and final book, authors such as John Irving and Stephen King have joined the bandwagon pleading the author not to kill the wizard.

The duo has now launched a campaign to prevent Rowling from killing Potter in the seventh book, and is confident that they can persuade the British author.

Speaking at a New York press conference, where the Rowling, Irving and King were staging a charity reading, Irving said that he was keeping his fingers crossed in the boy wizard’s favour.

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