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Rowling regrets not telling mum about Potter (spoilers!)
In the second part of her interview with the Today Show J.K.Rowling spoke about she regretted not telling her mum about Harry Potter before she died. She also talks about the theme of death and characters dying.
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“She never knew,” Rowling said. “She would have loved this just in the sense any mother wants to know their child is successful. She would have been at every event I did. She would have had so much vicarious pleasure in seeing who I met and what I did. Not telling her, that’s a massive regret.”
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“Mum dying had a profound influence on the books because I had been writing the Harry Potter series, and in the first draft his parents were disposed of really in quite the cavalier fashion,” Rowling told Vieira. “Six months in, my mother died. I really think from that one moment on, death became a central, if not the central, theme of the seven books. How we react to death, how much we fear it. In many ways, all of my characters are defined by their attitude to death.”
Jo also talked about the possibility of character deaths, including what she told one cast member from the films.
SPOILER!!: “You’re lucky you didn’t kill...
Hagrid,” Vieira said, and Rowling laughed, replying, “I never planned to kill Hagrid.”
But she kept her secrets well. Even Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who plays Harry Potter, had to ask about his character’s fate.
“I took him out to dinner, and at one point during dinner, he leant in and he said, ‘Look, I’ve just gotta ask you. Do I die?’” Rowling said.
“I whispered, so no one else could hear, ‘You get a death scene,’” she said.
“But Dan is very smart. And I’m pretty sure he would have walked away from dinner thinking, ‘Yeah, I get a death scene, but what does that mean? She didn't say, ‘Yes, you die,’ so I hope he's happy.”
She also spoke about the Mirror of Erised, and what she would see, should she look into it.
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“There’s something about that, when he looks in the mirror and sees his family, that’s so moving to me. If I had the mirror here and you looked in, what do you think you would see?” Vieira asked.
“I would definitely see what Harry sees. I would have seen my mother,” Rowling said. “I would be able to have a conversation with my mother.”
A video of the interview can be watched below:
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Originally Posted by katiebell
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It's unfortunate that Jo didn't get to tell her mum about Harry Potter. I'm sure her mother would have been extremely proud of her and is still extremely proud of her. After all, how could she possibly not be?
Jo is so sneaky and wonderful. I'm glad that she gave Dan that little tidbit and let him go crazy just like the rest of us
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