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JKR interview at midnight release
Lizo: Jo, it’s been an incredible ten year journey, what’s it like reaching the end of all this?
Jo: Fantastic. I can’t tell you. I’ve never been so excited about a launch. I’m, really emotional as well, I could cry. But I’m very happy tonight. This is my favourite book of the series, so that is the best way to end. I really…whether people like it or not, I really like it. So, you can’t really say better than that. As a writer, that is what I am, when you strip it all back, that’s what it’s about.
Lizo: And how does tonight compare to some of the other highlights of the last ten years of Harry Potter?
Jo: Well, tonight has got to be up there. I mean it’s going to be one of my eternal memories of the whole thing but today’s really been a day to look back and remember how it used to be and I’ve had long conversations with people like my American editor, who is in New York and he is about to go through this over there and we’ve just been reminiscing about what it’s been like the past ten years.
Lizo: Do you think it’s a real testament to how successful Harry Potter has been that we’ve had a week full of people leaking things that they say are spoilers and this incredible secrecy that’s built up around it?
Jo: I think that the two things feed off of each other. We try to protect the story so that children particularly could reach them and enjoy the please of reading the book. Therefore, inevitably, there are people whose egos dictate that they are going to try and break that embargo. From my point of view, I’m so grateful that nearly everybody kept the embargo because it means that, I’ve just sat in the middle of these children, that they are all saying ‘What happens?” and they don’t know and that’s miraculous really.
Lizo: What are you going to do next? You’ve written another children’s book but when are we going to hear from you again?
Jo: I’m sure you will hear from me again but at the moment I’m saying, and I mean it, I really would like to take a break for a while and I think that probably I need to because this has been so massive. I probably need to not do it for a while to get some perspective back into life.
Jo: Fantastic. I can’t tell you. I’ve never been so excited about a launch. I’m, really emotional as well, I could cry. But I’m very happy tonight. This is my favourite book of the series, so that is the best way to end. I really…whether people like it or not, I really like it. So, you can’t really say better than that. As a writer, that is what I am, when you strip it all back, that’s what it’s about.
Lizo: And how does tonight compare to some of the other highlights of the last ten years of Harry Potter?
Jo: Well, tonight has got to be up there. I mean it’s going to be one of my eternal memories of the whole thing but today’s really been a day to look back and remember how it used to be and I’ve had long conversations with people like my American editor, who is in New York and he is about to go through this over there and we’ve just been reminiscing about what it’s been like the past ten years.
Lizo: Do you think it’s a real testament to how successful Harry Potter has been that we’ve had a week full of people leaking things that they say are spoilers and this incredible secrecy that’s built up around it?
Jo: I think that the two things feed off of each other. We try to protect the story so that children particularly could reach them and enjoy the please of reading the book. Therefore, inevitably, there are people whose egos dictate that they are going to try and break that embargo. From my point of view, I’m so grateful that nearly everybody kept the embargo because it means that, I’ve just sat in the middle of these children, that they are all saying ‘What happens?” and they don’t know and that’s miraculous really.
Lizo: What are you going to do next? You’ve written another children’s book but when are we going to hear from you again?
Jo: I’m sure you will hear from me again but at the moment I’m saying, and I mean it, I really would like to take a break for a while and I think that probably I need to because this has been so massive. I probably need to not do it for a while to get some perspective back into life.