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January 25, 2007
S07 Fortune cookie #7-Jo Rowling's cupboards
Popular success must be a fine thing: most times I think of "Harry Potter" I also think of J. K. Rowling in a teashop in chilly Scotland and scrunching her toes in her trainers against the damp and coming up with that freight train of adolescent dread. She's always claimed to have written the ending first. (Some plans are better laid than others, something you're reminded every day at Sundance.) This quote comes from a 2001 BBC special. "JKR [laying in her pile of notes]: This is the thing that I was very dubious about 
showing you, and I don't really know why because what does this give away? [It's a big folder] But this is the Final Chapter of book Seven. Um ... [laughs] which I'm still dubious about showing you, I don't know what I feel like, the camera's gonna be able to see through the folder. So this is it, and I'm not opening it for obvious reasons. This is really where I wrap everything up, it's the Epilogue, and I basically say what happens to everyone after they leave school -- those who survive, because there are deaths, more deaths, coming. It was a way of saying to myself, Well, "you will get here, you will get to book Seven, one day. And ... then you'll need this!" So I'd just like to remind all the children I know who come round my house and start sneaking into cupboards that it's not there, anymore. I don't keep it at home any more for very very very obvious reasons. So there it is."
Posted by Ray Pride at January 25, 2007 11:41 AM
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