J.K. Rowling hinted this week that she might kill off her title character in the final installment of the seven-volume Harry Potter series, the NYT reports. The author admitted that "at least two" major characters will die before the end of the final volume, but she declined to say whether Harry is one of those. Shades of Arthur Conan Doyle here perhaps, but remember, popular demand forced a (rather miraculous) resurrection of Sherlock Holmes .... In an interview with Britain's Channel 4, Rowling said that she wrote the final chapter of the series "long ago", but has tweaked it slightly as she's composed the book.
No word yet on when the seventh volume will be released. Meanwhile, I'd better get busy; I've still got the fifth and sixth volumes to read!
