Melissa has posted another part of her interview with JK Rowling!

JKR: In many ways it would have been a neater ending to kill him. For sure, I knew that all along. felt that the books’ overriding message was that love is the most powerful force in this world. My model with Harry really was war veterans, who have seen horrors and are asked to go home and rebuild, and go back to ordinary life and care for a family, be a father – particularly be a father – [it is] a difficult job, in troubled times. I felt it would be a betrayal of my character if I did anything other than show him doing that. And I think it’s an absolutely heroic thing to do, to go home after that, not to become a mercenary, not to live forever frozen in a time of excitement and danger, but to be mentally strong enough, to an extent physically strong enough, to return from war and to raise a new generation with values that you hope will not lead to another war. That’s massive.

Of course you can say, yes, to an extent, as ever in life, that’s the eternal paradox. What’s is most worthwhile may well be seen as slightly dull, but God knows without those people who were prepared to come home and raise the family and rebuild, help rebuild… rebuilding is much more difficult than destroying. So, I felt it was almost a cop-out, morally, to kill him. I wanted to show a man who, yeah, he went back and got his hands dirty and tried to rebuild. I liked that. And again, it made a lot of people were livid, but God knows by that time I was used to that by then!

Voldemort and Harry Potter have been voted as two of the greatest characters of all time in Empire Australia‘s 100 Greatest Characters of All Time poll.

See the scans HERE!

Thanks SS and Claire!

The cover art for the US Paperback edition of Deathly Hallows has been released.  The Cover art has only added “The Breathtaking Series Finale” above the title. The inital print run will be of two million copies.

See it HERE!

Thanks TLC!

If you recall, back in August Melissa Anelli, author of the upcoming book Harry, A History and webmiss of The Leaky Cauldron, posted up the first half of an interview she had with Jo Rowling.  She has now posted the second part! In this part she talks about the veil.

I had not anticipated, though really I should have done, how interested people would be to go beyond the veil. And lots of people, including Dan [Radcliffe], wanted to go through the veil. But then that shouldn’t surprise me because teenagers are very interested.

Click More or the link above for the full interview!

MTV spoke to a bunch of different celebrities about what Harry Potter means to them to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Sorcerer’s Stone!

Keira Knightley: “I’ve read all the books. I haven’t seen the films, except the first one. What’s the alley where they get the wands from? [Diagon Alley.] That’s an amazing image. Harry, he’s pretty cool. He’s got a good scar.”

Click More to read more of them, including Ralph Fiennes and Rob Pattinson!

According to Mugglenet, there may be a 10th Anniversary Chamber of Secrets book. On their site they say:

The event [Cover to Cover SS Reading] concluded at 5:22 PM EST, with a Scholastic representative saying they’d be back next year for the 10th anniversary of Chamber of Secrets. A new book and Cover to Cover reading to come? We’ll let you know!