As mentioned in our last entry, the BBC Radio 4 will air an interview with author J.K. Rowling and Stephen Fry called 'Living with Harry' this Saturday, December 10th at 9 AM. It will re-air again on Christmas Eve, December 24th at 5pm.
Here are a few more excerpts, where Rowling speaks more about how the events in Book Six will tie into Book Seven.
SF: Is it really true that you've got it [the end of the story] all planned out?
JKR: Yes, I do know what's going to happen in the end. And occasionally I get cold shivers when someone guesses at something that's very close, and then I panic and I think "Oh, is it very obvious?" and then someone says something that's so off the wall that I think "No, it's clearly not that obvious!"
So much that happens in [book] six relates to what happens in [book] seven. In six, although there is an ending that could be seen as definitive in one sense, you very strongly feel the plot is not over this time and it will continue. It's an odd feeling, for the first time I'm very aware that I'm finishing.
SF: You've not held back from the difficult and the frightening [in your fiction].
JKR: I feel very strongly that there is a move to sanitise literature because we're trying to protect children not from, necessarily, the grisly facts of life but from their own imaginations. . . And the child that has been protected from Dementors in fiction, I would argue, is much more likely to fall prey to them later in life in reality.
Posted by Madmaxime at December 9, 2005 03:57 PM