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J.K. Rowling talks multiple sclerosis on Your Total Health
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling appeared on Your Total Health this past weekend.
Jo spoke about the release of Deathly Hallows, the beginning of the Harry Potter series, and on a more serious note, the death of her mother, due to Multiple Sclerosis. She also talks about how her mother's death changed the themes of the novels.
She is seriously amazing. I love how she deals with such delicate topics like this one -- they definitely should be talked about. Aside from the fact that everyone should know what MS does to a person and his or her family, I feel like it makes us better readers to know what her life was like while she was writing these books. It unavoidably would, as she said, change the way she wrote, and it definitely places heavier meaning on the role of parents and family than she would've written - and that we would have read - before.
Jo is absolutely amazing. It's great that she spends so much time and donates so much to MS foundations. I find it amazing--and yet not surprising at all--how what happens in real life has affected what she's written in the Harry Potter novels.
J.K. Rowling talks multiple sclerosis on Your Total Health 
