JK Rowling has revealed that she dreads starting work on book 7 as she can’t imagine life without Harry:
“I contemplate this task with mingled feelings of excitement and dread. I can’t wait to tell the final part, to answer all the questions. . . and yet it will all be over at last and I can’t quite imagine life without Harry,” she told The Sun, “I have been fine-tuning the fine-tuned plan of seven [books] during the past few weeks so I can really get to work in January. Reading through the plan is like contemplating the map of an unknown country in which I will soon find myself,”
But will she kill off Harry in the last book? A spokesman for the HPANA website said the Rowling was probably left with no choice but to kill the central character because if she didn’t she would be under pressure to add to the popular series.