JK Rowling will kill off two characters in the final Harry Potter book

JK Rowling will kill off two characters in the final Harry Potter book.

The author of the bestselling series, which follows the adventures of boy
wizard Harry, revealed the shocking finale during an interview on British TV
yesterday (26.06.06).

Harry Potter, the boy wizard credited with reviving reading among children, and their parents, may die in Book Seven.

His creator, J K Rowling, claims she wrote the end of the series in 1990, so she's always known exactly how it'll wind up.

J K Rowling says she was "lambasted" by several people for this approach.
"I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me."

The author tells Channel 4 she didn't expect to create a character more successful than the teenage wizard.

"I don't think I'm ever going to have anything like Harry again. You just get one like Harry."

On Sunday, Rowling attended the Queen's 80th birthday party at Buckingham Palace, and said she was "doing well" with the final book.

"The final chapter is hidden away although it's now changed very slightly. One character got a reprieve. But I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die," Rowling said in a TV interview with hosts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan on their self-titled show: .

"A price has to be paid, we are dealing with pure evil here. They don't target extras, do they? They go for the main characters - well, I do."

A double funeral worries McKenna Jordan, manager at Murder by the Book, 2342 Bissonnet reports chron.com. "I figured that she would probably have to kill one off because the books seem to be getting darker and Harry is having to face tougher situations. So I figured someone would be killed off. I'm a little concerned with two. That seems a little excessive."

"It doesn't really surprise me," said 18-year-old Haley Klenk of Houston, who has read all the books and works part time at Blue Willow Bookshop, 14532 Memorial. "I can't imagine that she would do anything to her three main characters, Harry, Ron and Hermione. But I kind of think anybody else is fair game."

The mum-of-three wouldn't reveal the victims' identities for fear of
reprisals, saying: "I'm not going to commit myself, because I don't want the
hate mail or anything else."
However, Rowling, 40, did make it clear that when she has finished the
seventh novel that will be end of Harry's adventures once and for all.
She explained: "I've never been tempted to kill him, Harry, off before the
end of book seven, because I always planned seven books and that's where I
want to go.
"I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who
thinks, 'Well, I'm going to kill them off because that means there can be no
non-author-written sequels ... so it will end with me, and after I'm dead
and gone they won't be able to bring back the character'."
So far, the Harry Potter series has sold over 300 million copies worldwide.