And Neil said to me, ‘What’s the matter?’ And I said, ‘Well I’ve just killed the person that I’m going to kill.’ He doesn’t know who it is. And I was literally, well I did, I cried after doing it, and walked into the kitchen afterwards in tears. In this book, what I consider to be a major character dies. Essentially a war has broken out again and when I say the beginning of the deaths, I mean the deaths that are meaningful, I suppose, to the reader.
Completely miss it.”Ĭouric: “Warm and fuzzy.What does that mean?” I couldn’t see any light at the end of the tunnel, and every day I’m grateful that we’ve got food in the fridge now and that I don’t have to worry about the bills and that I know I can afford Jessie’s clothes and it’s… yes, I’m grateful for that every day.”Ĭouric: “Is there anything you miss now that you are so well known Jo and so wealthy and such a celebrity?” I really was that broke and I know what it feels like to be that broke and to live through it and not to know it’s about to change. Oh, and Nicholson’s Cafe is now a Chinese Restaurant. Five years and five books later, she’s remarried, has a new baby boy, and her fortune’s worth an estimated $500 million. Back then, she was a single mum living on welfare. She’d walk her daughter Jessica in her stroller down the street until she fell asleep, then rush to Nicolson’s Cafe to write while the baby napped. The story of how Jo Rowling brought Harry Potter to life has become legend itself. But of course, being a skilled journalist, I was able to craft my questions so carefully, she had no choice but to blab. So there was concern the cauldron could be leaky. Keeping the secrets is crucial to the multi-million dollar marketing campaign. In the last few months, fake chapters have shown up on the Internet and a British printing company employee was caught trying to sell stolen book pages. She does give us some clues later on, but there’s good reason why Rowling so closely guards her chamber of secrets. But, you know, if you’re prepared to take that risk.” Katie Couric: “Can you tell me a little bit about this book, or will you have to kill me?” Clearly, I felt it was my mission to get Rowling to start spilling her Bertie Botts Beans. As titillating as that one line from the new book was, I was counting on a little more 411. All the publishers will say is “deeper secrets, darker powers, stronger magic.” So we decided to go straight to the source - the author who’s cast this spell over us mere muggles: J.K.
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