Post-DH Interviews

What have the interviews JKR is giving revealed about Deathly Hallows?

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We know that Harry marries Ginny and has three kids, essentially, as Rowling explains, creating the family and the peace and calm he never had as a child.
As for his occupation, Harry, along with Ron, is working at the Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic. After all these years, Harry is now the department head.

“Harry and Ron utterly revolutionized the Auror Department,” Rowling said. “They are now the experts. It doesn’t matter how old they are or what else they’ve done.”

Meanwhile, Hermione, Ron’s wife, is “pretty high up” in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, despite laughing at the idea of becoming a lawyer in “Deathly Hallows.”

“I would imagine that her brainpower and her knowledge of how the Dark Arts operate would really give her a sound grounding,” Rowling said.

Harry, Ron and Hermione don’t join the same Ministry of Magic they had been at odds with for years; they revolutionize it and the ministry evolves into a “really good place to be.”

“They made a new world,” Rowling said.

The wizarding naturalist
Luna Lovegood, the eccentric Ravenclaw who was fascinated with Crumple-Horned Snorkacks and Umgubular Slashkilters, continues to march to the beat of her own drum.

“I think that Luna is now traveling the world looking for various mad creatures,” Rowling said. “She’s a naturalist, whatever the wizarding equivalent of that is.”

Luna comes to see the truth about her father, eventually acknowledging there are some creatures that don’t exist.

“But I do think that she’s so open-minded and just an incredible person that she probably would be uncovering things that no one’s ever seen before,” Rowling said.

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"Lupin and Tonks were two who were killed who I had intended to keep alive. … It's like an exchange of hostages, isn't it? And I kept Mr. Weasley (Ron's father) alive. He was slated to die in the very, very original draft of the story."

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-07-25-jk-rowling_N.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/

She has also revealed the original last line of the book:

"Only those who he loved could see the lightning scar."

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19991430/

That original last sentence is a bit intriguing....

If you watch the video she explains about it a little more.

She also says that if she were to go to Hogwarts and get sorted, she would be a Gryffindor!

lol! I really really want to know what happens to Ginny and weirdly stan shunpike. I mean yeah yeah but was he under the imperious curse. I mean in the last book he told everyone he was a death eater and you wouldn't do that if you were so maybe he was a death eater.

im sorry to hear that Luna had to face that fact that some of those creatures were not real

The entire transcript of the Today Show/Dateline interview with JKR can be found at the following URL:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20001720/

And another!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20035573/