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Radcliffe was desperate to know Harry Potter’s fate, says Rowling

WASHINGTON/ LONDON: Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe was desperate to know whether or not his character would be alive by the end of the final book.

Author J.K. Rowling revealed that Radcliffe had been so concerned about Harry dying in ‘The Deathly Hallows’ that when she took him out for dinner to discuss the character, he begged her to reveal his fate.

“At one point, during dinner, he said, ‘Look, I’ve just got to ask you, ‘Do I die?”’ Contactmusic quoted her, as saying. Ms. Rowling added that she barely managed to field the question by giving Radcliffe a roundabout answer, without revealing whether Potter would live or die. “I thought quick and I whispered, so no one else could hear, ‘You get a death scene.’ But Dan’s very smart and I’m pretty sure he would have walked away from that dinner thinking, ‘Yeah, I get a death scene but what does that mean?”’ she said.

Rowling said in an online chat the Hallows were in part inspired by The Pardoner’s Tale, one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Character’s fate

Ms. Rowling said the world was a sunnier, happier place after the seventh book and the death of Voldemort. Harry Potter, who always voiced a desire to become an Auror, or someone who fights dark wizards, was named head of the Auror Department under the new wizarding government headed by his friend and ally, Kingsley Shacklebolt.

His wife, Ginny Weasley, stuck with her athletic career, playing for the Holyhead Harpies, the all-female Quidditch team. Eventually, Ginny left the team to raise their three children — James, Albus, and Lily — while writing as the senior Quidditch correspondent for the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet.

Harry’s best friend Ron Weasley joined his brother, George, as a partner at their successful joke shop Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes.

Hermione Granger, Ron’s wife and the third leg of the series’ dark wizard fighting trio, furthered the rights of subjugated creatures, such as house-elves, in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures before joining the magical law enforcement squad. The couple had two children — Rose and Hugo.

Luna Lovegood, Harry’s airily distracted friend with a love for imaginary animals who joins the fight against Voldemort in the Order of the Phoenix, becomes a famous wizarding naturalist who eventually marries the grandson of Newt Scamander, author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. As the chat wrapped up, Rowling thanked readers for their loyalty to the series and making it an incredible journey for Harry’s author. — Agencies

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