J.K. Rowling chat transcript

[pegkerr]

from the Leaky Cauldron:

J.K. Rowling has just answered a whole onslaught of post-DH question in a Web chat on Bloomsbury.com. We have reordered the questions so that it reads top-down; answers are here about the characters’ future lives, the state of the wizarding world, the other two title potentials for Deathly Hallows, and much, much, more. More than 120,000 questions were sent in; and as it’s the first time J.K. Rowling has been able to answer questions so freely in a fan chat, there are spoilers and details GALORE. Read on!

It's genuinely startling (and fun) to see her answering questions willingly instead of parrying them with her usual cagey elusiveness.

Comments

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Neat.

There's one question I'd like to ask her, though: how did Harry explain what he had been up to? Did he say that he was researching ways to defeat Voldemort, and that was why he broke into Gringotts, or did he admit to the existence of Horcruxes, which sounds like it would be a particularly dangerous thing for him to do?

[bohemianspirit.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that. It's exciting to be able to read her thoughts, at last, now that she doesn't have to hide anything!

It also confirmed my understanding of the Hedwig Situation: It's rather like Laura's dog Jack at the beginning of By the Shores of Silver Lake, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, i.e., a sign of Leaving Childhood Behind for Now You Are Grown Up.