http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2006/0801-radiocity-pressconf.html
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2006/0801-radiocityreading1.html
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2006/0802-radiocityreading2.html
요약
- She didn't enjoy killing the character who dies at the end of book 6, but it wasn't quite as poignant as we may have imagined because she had planned it for years and had already done her grieving. [Read the whole quote from Radio City-pressconf, 2006]
- Dumbledore had to die because 'In these sort of epic sagas, the hero eventually has to fight alone', although Harry still has his two faithful sidekicks. Fundamentally, Jo is saying 'the old wizard always gets it'. [Read the whole quote from Radio City-pressconf, 2006]
- When asked about Draco, Jo said that all of her main characters except for Voldemort can be considered redeemable. [Read the whole quote from Radio City1, 2006]
- Harry believes that Draco would not have killed Dumbledore even if he had all the time in the world. Indeed he would not have; this will have implications for Draco’s future. [Read the whole quote from Radio City1, 2006]
- Dumbledore will not “do a Gandalf;” he is truly dead. [Read the whole quote from Radio City2, 2006]
Audience member question (paraphrased): Why did Dumbledore have to die [asked by TIME for Kids representative]
Rowling: I did an interview last year in which I was asked this question. In the genre in which I'm writing, you usually find that the hero has to go on alone. There comes a point when his support falls away and to be truly heroic he has to act alone. Harry is not completely alone, he still has his two faithful sidekicks. This was summarized for me by the person who asked the question with, you mean the old wizard always gets it, and that fundamentally, that is what I was saying. I was as trying to dress it up a little better than that. So that's why. In these sort of epic sagas, the hero eventually has to fight alone.
올리밴더의 지팡이 만들기---세가지 재료를 어떻게 고르게 되었는가
-다른 지팡이 제작자들도 몇몇 있고. 노트에는 지팡이 심으로 들어가는 재료들을 많이 적어놓았는데 올리밴더는 내가 제일 좋아하는 세 재료를 사용하는 설정으로 둠. 올리밴더는 이 세가지(불사조깃털, 유니콘 털, 용의 심금)를 가장 강한 재료로 생각함. 다른 지팡이 사용자는 자기네 나라에서 유명한 것들을 사용한다. 내가 구상한 세계에선 나라마다 각기 다른 토착종 마법생물들이 존재하는 설정. 그러니깐 플뢰르 지팡이는 벨라 머리카락이 들어감. 하지만 좋은 질문이다 처음들어봄
Samantha: In the wizarding world there are many wandmakers, Ollivander's being the one we're most familiar with. How come Ollivander chose the three magical cores for the wands he makes to be phoenix feather, unicorn hair, and dragon heartstring? And how come he decided that these are the three most powerful cores as opposed to others such as veela hair?
J.K. Rowling: Good question. Well, it is true that there are several wandmakers and in my notes about Harry I have many different cores for wands. Essentially I decided Ollivanders was going to use my three favorites. So Ollivander has decided that those are the three most powerful substances. Other wandmakers might choose things that are particular to their country, because countries as you know in my world have their own particular indigenous magical species. So Veela hair was kind of obvious for Fleur's wand. But um, yeah, good question. I've never had that one before (crowd applauds).
Cory Mayer: My name's Cory Mayer and I'm 9 years old and I'm from Bordentown, New Jersey. I absolutely love your books. I'm not a big reader but your books make me want to read and that makes my mom happy (crowd and JK Rowling laugh). She loves your books too. In a recent interview you hinted at two main characters dying and possibly Harry Potter too. Was Dumbledore considered one of the main characters or will we have the chance to see him in action once again? Since he is the most powerful wizard of all time and Harry Potter is so loyal to him, how could he really be dead?
JK Rowling: Ohhhhhhhh (Jo puts her head in her arms and crowd cheers and applauds). I feel terrible (crowd laughs). The British writer Graham Green once said that every writer had to have a chip of ice in their heart. Oh no (Jo says half weeping while crowd laughs). I think you may just have ruined my career (crowd laughs). Umm, I really can't answer that question because the answer is in book seven but ... you shouldn't expect Dumbledore to do a Gandalf. Let me just put it that way. I'm sorry (crowd moans and applauds).
Soledad O'Brien: I'm going to pose the final question to you and I'd like all three of you to take a stab at it. You can do it in any order that you would like. If you were to have dinner with any five characters from any of your books -- take a moment to think about it -- who would you invite, and why would they be on your list? Any order.
JK Rowling: Well I'd take Harry, to apologize to him (crowd laughs). Um, I'd have to take Harry, Ron and Hermione.
Stephen King: Sure.
JK Rowling: I would - this is - (crown shouts suggestions).
Stephen King: Hagrid, take Hagrid.
JK Rowling: See, I know who's actually dead.
Stephen King: Pretend you can take them anyways.
JK Rowling: Pretend I can take anyone? Well then I would definitely take Dumbledore. I'd take Dumbledore, Harry, Ron, Hermione...and.. (crowd shouts characters) um, Hagrid. I'd take Hagrid, yeah. And Owen because he wouldn't take up much space (crowd laughs).
전문
Press Conference
Date: 1 August 2006.
Location: Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY.
Source: fan recordings.
Participants: Stephen King, John Irving and J.K. Rowling; questions from various audience members.
Context: benefit reading to raise money for Doctors Without Borders and the Haven Foundation.
Transcription credits: This transcript is put together from several sources, including transcripts by The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet (staffers Lei, Becky and Natalie), with corrections and notes by Lisa Bunker.
Introduction: I’m Dick Robinson of Scholastic, the lucky U.S. publisher of Harry Potter—the best known, best-loved character on planet Earth—and of J.K. Rowling, Harry’s brilliant creator. From the moment I met Jo, then unknown eight years ago, I was touched by her graceful confidence, born I think now of her sure [inaudible] knowledge that Harry Potter would be one of literature’s great characters. I was also struck by her [inaudible] gift of magic’s consecration, the mind [inaudible] that at all times absorbed in the consistency of the whole seven-book story that she had imagined from the beginning. And not only was her commitment to the developing story [inaudible], but it was accompanied by a parallel of readers. Her story and its readers have been linked in her mind from the beginning, even as the readers grow older, and the story artfully unfolds over the years. Our company [inaudible] teachers, parents, and children [inaudible] a place to find good stories and great books to help you read and learn. Something we have done in eighty-six years [inaudible], Harry Potter opening millions of minds to a great story and making reading the best way to learn about yourself. For all of this, thank you Jo Rowling. (applause)
Audience member question (paraphrased): Are there any surprises about book seven?
J.K. Rowling: Surprises about book seven? Um… (deep sigh—crowd laughs) Anything I feel like sharing? I'm well into it, I'm well into the writing of it now [smiles]. There's so much I could say. To an extent, the pressure's off, I suppose, because it's the last book, so I feel quite liberated. I can just resolve the story now, and it's fun. It's fun in a way that it hasn't been before, because finally I'm doing my resolution. I think some people will loathe it, some will love it, but that's the way it should be.
Audience member question (paraphrased): Can you speak about the charities these events will benefit?
Stephen King: I think we're going to be able to raise at least $250,000 for this charity, which for three people who write books is a lot of money. When we set out to do this we decided we would do two nights, one to benefit the charity of my choice, which is the Haven Foundation, which raises money for freelance artists who find themselves after catastrophic accidents and diseases with no resources for themselves. And Jo designated Doctors Without Borders, and she can talk very cogently about that. So, one night Doctors Without Borders, one night, Haven Foundation.
All of this came out of the fact that last year, I read for John's charity, which was Maple Street School [in Vermont], and he said he would read for me. And so while I read for a small school in Vermont, I dragged him to Radio City Music Hall, [laughter] and he came along.
Audience member question (paraphrased): What would your advice be for kids who want to be authors?
Rowling: Advice for kids who want to be authors? Read. The first thing you should do is read, and the most important thing you should do is read. Initially, I think you’ll imitate the writers you enjoy most, and I think that’s a most important learning process. And by reading, you’ll not only increase your vocabulary, but you’ll learn what works and what doesn’t work, what you like, what kind of writing you’ll like, and you’ll learn to analyze it, so I think that’s the most important thing to do. And the other thing is to accept that you’ll waste a lot of trees, I’m telling you. Finally, come up with something that you enjoy.
Audience member question (paraphrased): What will [Jo] miss most about the Harry Potter series?
Rowling: Everything. I've loved writing it, and I will miss it hugely. But I always planned seven books, and I planned this particular ending, and if I get through it and do what I meant to do when I first committed to this story, then I'll be proud. I'll probably go through a mourning period and then have to think of something else to write.
Audience member question (paraphrased): Have any of your children exhibited magical qualities?
Rowling: Young witches and wizards in my book are very destructive in their early phase, and they've certainly got that. But otherwise, I would say probably not. My eldest daughter is very scientific, very logical, which I think is great.
Audience member question (paraphrased): Can you speak about killing your characters?
Rowling: John's killed off more than I have so I think he should go first.
John Irving: Because I never begin writing a novel until I know the major emotional things that happen in it, especially what happens at the end, I have a kind of casualty list of which characters make it and which characters don't, before I write the first word. So that process of deliberation that sometimes precedes the writing of a novel by as much as a year or 18 months means that by the time I get to writing those death scenes themselves, I've lived through the lives and deaths of those characters for many months, sometimes several years. Therefore I'm not truly emotionally affected when it comes to writing those scenes. It's as if they've already happened and I'm just remembering them. But I think that's a direct result of my need to know the ending of a story before I go about imagining where it might begin.
Audience member question: Jo, Stephen, do you want to add to that?
Rowling: (laughs) I think that there's ... I understand why an author would kill a character from a point of view of not allowing others to continue writing after the original author is dead. I don't always enjoy killing my characters. I didn't enjoy killing the character who died at the end of book six (I'm being discreet just in case any on hasn't finished the book). I really didn't enjoy doing that, but I had been planning that for years. As John [Irving] says it wasn't quite as poignant as you might imagine. I'd already done my grieving when it actually came to writing it.
King: I don't enjoy it either, and I don't always know. I don't plan the books out very clearly. I've always thought of it as, you know, there are writers who plan and I think there are people who fire missiles the way that the United States fires missiles. I fire them the way Hezbollah fires missiles. I have a certain idea of where they're going to land but if they get within 12 miles one way or another I'm happy. I wrote a book about Cujo ... [rest of King's answer omitted by transcribers].
Audience member question (paraphrased): Do the other authors have advice for Jo at the end of her series?
Rowling: [looking at SK, whispers] Kill him! [laughter]
King: I want the story to be fair. It's what I always want. I want to read the book. I love that series. I want to read the book and I have total confidence because I've read the other books. And man, I'm just up for it, that's all.
[QQQ note: some banter omitted]
Irving: My fingers are crossed for Harry, that's all. I'm just hoping.
Audience member question (paraphrased): Why did JKR choose Doctors without Borders, and what was behind her 6-year absence from the U.S.?
Rowling: To answer the second part first, the person I wanted to nominate Doctors Without Borders, -- I used to work for Amnesty International, and that's when I first came across the organization. I noted that every time there was a situation, like the war in Lebanon, Doctors Without Borders were some of the first people on the ground. They were a very very effective organization, and also as the name clearly states, it doesn't matter what your religious affiliation is, it doesn't matter what your ethnic group is, it doesn't matter what your circumstance is. If you are physically in need they will help you or do everything they can to help you. So I've always, since having money and having made money, they've been an organization I've supported financially, and I thought that we were doing one great charity that deals with a specific group of people, and therefore I thought it would be great if we did a charity that deals literally with the world -- wherever there is need.
[Re: being absent from the U.S. for six years...]
Rowling: I absolutely love coming here, and I absolutely love coming to New York. It's one of my favorite cities, but during that six years, I've been pregnant twice and I've had small children and that's really why we weren't doing the long flights and the tours. They're old enough to travel now. So it's great to be back.
Audience member question (paraphrased): Why did Dumbledore have to die [asked by TIME for Kids representative]
Rowling: I did an interview last year in which I was asked this question. In the genre in which I'm writing, you usually find that the hero has to go on alone. There comes a point when his support falls away and to be truly heroic he has to act alone. Harry is not completely alone, he still has his two faithful sidekicks. This was summarized for me by the person who asked the question with, you mean the old wizard always gets it, and that fundamentally, that is what I was saying. I was as trying to dress it up a little better than that. So that's why. In these sort of epic sagas, the hero eventually has to fight alone.
Audience member question (paraphrased): Have there been any changes to what you initially planned out?
Rowling: It is different to an extent. The essential plot is what I always planned when working toward the end I've planned toward the beginning. But a couple of characters I expected to survive have died and one character got a reprieve, so there have been some fairly major changes I suppose.
Audience member question (paraphrased): Are the authors comfortable reading their own work?
Irving: My only discomfort with what I'm reading tonight is it 's from something relatively old, something I've not read or been in touch with for a number of years, but Steve and I have talked about what we were going to read and we recognize that we see ourselves as warm up dance for Jo, and we see, [JKR: Awww...] we imagine that there's going to be mostly her audience there, and I don't think that Stephen King and John Irving generally write material that's terribly suitable for younger people. So Steve and I had to go looking for those occasionally more innocent moments in our earlier work, so to speak. So, um, I would say in the case of this reading, I love the idea of reading with Steve and Jo and this wonderful space, but I'm a little intimidated by the age of the audience, it's not my usual audience.
Rowling: I feel like I've just been told the Beatles and the Stones are warming up for me. To tell you the truth I'm not that comfortable reading my own work, and that's why I'm going to be doing a shorter reading tonight and taking some questions. I do think that the people that have come tonight would rather ask questions than hear me doing a long reading. I would like to think so anyway because I’m not very comfortable doing it and I don’t think I’m particularly good at reading.
Audience member question (paraphrased): How does JKR feel when her readers call her a sadist, and how does she feel about wrapping up the series?
Rowling: When fans accuse me of sadism -- which doesn't happen that often -- I feel I'm toughening them up to go on and read [laughs] John and Stephen's books. They've got to be toughened up somehow. It's a cruel literary world out there, so I'm doing them a favor.
How do I feel about the series ending? On the one hand, I feel I am going to feel sad. Harry's been an enormous part of my life and it's been quite a turbulent phase of my life as well, and he was always the constant. So there will be a sense of bereavement, but there will also be a sense of liberation, because there are pressures involved in writing something this popular, and wonderful though it's been I think that there will also be a certain freedom in escaping that particular part of writing Harry Potter.
Audience member question (paraphrased): What's next for Jo?
Rowling: I have a shorter -- mercifully -- book for children that's kind of half written, so I think I'll probably go do that next.
See also:
- "An Evening with Harry, Carrie and Garp" Readings and questions, Aug. 1
- "An Evening with Harry, Carrie and Garp" Readings and questions, Aug. 2
Readings and questions #1, August 1, 2006
Date: 1 August 2006.
Location: Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY.
Also starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Bates, Stephen King, Andre Braugher, John Irving, and Jon Stewart.
Source: fan recordings.
Context: benefit reading to raise money for Doctors Without Borders and the Haven Foundation.
Transcription credits: Leaky Cauldron staffers Josee and Super Alex with corrections and notes by Lisa Bunker.
Skip to the readings:
Stephen King | John Irving | J.K. Rowling | Final 8 questions
(앞부분 생략)
Why am I here? I have kids, two of them. And my youngest is a little girl, she is five months old. And she has been in line for the latest Harry Potter book now for over 3 months. We miss her terribly. But I want that damn book (crowd laughs, screams and applauds). My son is 2 and he was born with a lightning bolt. Actually he wasn't but you'd be amazed that every night if you just do this with your thumbnail (makes lightning bolt sign with thumbnail and crowd roars with laughter), after awhile he looks like he was born with a lightning bolt (crowd still laughing hysterically).
What's remarkable about Jo is her ability to just transport people into a universe of hers that is at many levels universal and yet also absolutely unique. I admire it. I look forward to each and every installment. I should be sitting out there with you. So please, if you can, take a look at this video.
(J.K. Rowling video rolls, including footage from the movies, BBC's "Harry Potter and Me," "The Richard and Judy Show," "Saturday Night Live," "The Today Show," and "BBC Newsnight.")
(J.K. Rowling enters to music and loud applause and incredibly loud screaming).
Crowd: Happy birthday Jo!
J.K. Rowling: The great thing about tonight is, no pressure (crowd laughs). You know it was great of Steven and John to warm up for me (crowd laughs). [Unintelligible] I do have the best shoes though (crowd roars with applause).
Umm, I'm going to be reading for you from the latest Harry Potter book (crowd screams). And at the end of my reading I'm going to be taking a few questions. My experience of my readers is that they want to -- well really they want to torture me for information. But Radio City Hall didn't feel that would be allowable. So I'm just going to ask a couple of people to put their questions [unintelligible] answers.
But before that, I'm going to read a short piece in which Harry Potter goes back in time and sees another famous pupil of Hogwarts school discover that he too is a wizard. So Harry and present-day Dumbledore follow a much younger Dumbledore as he walks to an orphanage to tell a particular pupil that he has a place at Hogwarts.
(J.K. Rowling reads her passage from chapter 13 of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
J.K. Rowling: We have a few questions now.
헤르미온느가 소망의 거울을 보면? 6권 시점에선 골든트리오 셋이 살아있고 볼드모트는 죽음.. 하지만 JKR 생각엔 누군가와....entwined(엉켜있는)....모습...
Nina: I just wanted to know what Hermione would see if she looked into the Mirror of Erised?
J.K. Rowling: Well, (big grin from Jo, crowd laughs and applauds) at the moment, as you know, Harry, Ron, and Hermione have just finished their penultimate year at Hogwarts and Hermione and Ron have told Harry that they're going to go with him wherever he goes next. So at the moment I think that Hermione would see most likely the three of them alive and unscathed and Voldemort finished.
But I think that Hermione would also see herself closely entwined... with... another... person (crowd roars and applauds loudly). I think you can probably guess who. Thank you, very good question. I've never been asked that before. Now we have another.
Unknown (1): Can muggles brew potions if they follow the exact instructions and they have all of the ingredients?
J.K. Rowling: Well, I'd have to say no, because there is always... there are magical component in the potion, not just the ingredients. So, at some point they will have to use a wand. I've been asked what would happen if a Muggle picked up a magic wand in my world, and the answer would probably be something accidental... possibly quite violent. Because wands, in my world, is merely a vehicle, a vessel for what lies inside the person. There is a very close relationship -- as you know -- between the wand that each wizard uses and themselves. In fact, we'll find out more about that in book 7 (crowd applauds).
For a muggle you need the ability, in other words, to make these things work properly but you're right and I think that's an interesting point. Potions seems, on the face of it, to be the most Muggle-friendly subject. But there does come a point in which you need do more than stir. Thank you, good question.
Unknown (2): You said in a recent interview that Snape --
J.K. Rowling: (mischeviously) Snape!
Unknown (2): Uh huh (crowd applauds and screams) -- had a sort of redemptive quality about him, and I was wondering if there was any chance that Draco Malfoy might redeem himself?
J.K. Rowling: Oh you girls and Draco Malfoy (she shakes her head, crowd applauds). You've got to get past this.
Unknown (2): And if any other characters might redeem themselves?
J.K. Rowling: Well, I believe that almost anyone can redeem themselves... However, in some cases, as we know from reality -- if a psychologist were ever able to get Voldemort in a room, pin him down and take his wand away, I think he would be classified as a psychopath (crowd laughs). So there are people, for whom, whatever you're going to callit -- personality disorder or an illness -- for whom redemption is not possible. They're rare.
So I'd say my characters, in the main, yes, there's the possibility for redemption for all of them. Draco, I think -- in Harry's view is that even given unlimited time would not have killed -- I'm assuming you all have read book 6 by now (crowd laughs) -- because I don't want to deprive some kid who's got five pages to go (they've been in a coma all this time) -- Harry believes that Draco would not have murdered the person in question. What that means for Draco's future? We'll just have to wait and see.
올리밴더의 지팡이 만들기---세가지 재료를 어떻게 고르게 되었는가
-다른 지팡이 제작자들도 몇몇 있고. 노트에는 지팡이 심으로 들어가는 재료들을 많이 적어놓았는데 올리밴더는 내가 제일 좋아하는 세 재료를 사용하는 설정으로 둠. 올리밴더는 이 세가지(불사조깃털, 유니콘 털, 용의 심금)를 가장 강한 재료로 생각함. 다른 지팡이 사용자는 자기네 나라에서 유명한 것들을 사용한다. 내가 구상한 세계에선 나라마다 각기 다른 토착종 마법생물들이 존재하는 설정. 그러니깐 플뢰르 지팡이는 벨라 머리카락이 들어감. 하지만 좋은 질문이다 처음들어봄
Samantha: In the wizarding world there are many wandmakers, Ollivander's being the one we're most familiar with. How come Ollivander chose the three magical cores for the wands he makes to be phoenix feather, unicorn hair, and dragon heartstring? And how come he decided that these are the three most powerful cores as opposed to others such as veela hair?
J.K. Rowling: Good question. Well, it is true that there are several wandmakers and in my notes about Harry I have many different cores for wands. Essentially I decided Ollivanders was going to use my three favorites. So Ollivander has decided that those are the three most powerful substances. Other wandmakers might choose things that are particular to their country, because countries as you know in my world have their own particular indigenous magical species. So Veela hair was kind of obvious for Fleur's wand. But um, yeah, good question. I've never had that one before (crowd applauds).
Todd: You mentioned before in the video that you had written the final chapter, but umm, how do you know when to stop writing an ending?
J.K. Rowling: How do I know when to stop?
Todd: How do you know when to stop, yeah?
J.K. Rowling: Well I think some of the reviews of Phoenix suggest that I didn't know when to stop, ha ha! (crowd laughs). Well, I decided, you know, sixteen years ago (or thereabouts) where I was going. And I will say, I'm quite a long way into writing book seven now. And there's a lot still to explain. I hadn't really realized... There's still a lot to find, to sort out, and I'll probably leave some loose ends hanging that you'll be able to say, "Oh, well, in book eight, she'll explain why" (crowd screams approval). "You mentioned the toad!" That's NOT significant, by the way, just to save myself 500 letters! "You mentioned the toad!"
Yes, but I do know where I'm going, I really do know where I'm going. I'm really going to miss writing Harry Potter; I will miss it fiendishly. "[Book] twenty-seven? Any thoughts on twenty-seven? (crowd laughs). No, I've plotted it out, and I think you'd start to see that I've run out of plot if I go past this (crowd applauds).
Unknown (4): As one of the first authors to become famous during the internet age, how has online communication and fan interaction influenced your experience as a writer compared to authors of the past?
J.K. Rowling: You really have to resist, when you're struggling for ideas, to go onto Amazon and read your bad reviews. It's kind of masochistic. You scroll down past all the people who say nice things about you till you see one star. So you completely have to resist that.
For a long time I never looked. People used to say to me, "Do you ever look at the fan sites or see what people have said online?" I was truthful; I said I didn't.
Then one bored afternoon, I googled "Harry Potter." Oh... my... God. I had NO idea. The shipping wars? (crowd screams). For people who are over 18 who may not know about this -- because I certainly didn't -- it's like cyber gang warfare. People who wanted Harry and Hermione to end up together (crowd screams) ... they're still out there! Get over it! And other people who wanted Hermione and Ron (crowd screams). And there are very weird couplings as well, but we will not go anywhere near there.
Crowd Member: Harry/Voldemort!
J.K. Rowling: Yeah, exactly. So I would imagine that Jane Austen had a little less feedback on that topic (crowd laughs). Overall, I think it's an exciting thing for readers being able to share -- cyber book groups. It's an interesting, exciting thing -- if used wisely (crowd laughs and applauds).
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ아 이건 좀 웃기ㅣ네 어느 지루한 오후에 심심해서 해리 포터를 검색했다가 와...우와 세상에......쉬핑전쟁....? 18세 미만의 사람은 알아선 안될 것들이다 세상에 사이버 갱 전쟁이었다 헤리헤르를 원하는 사람들이...(사람들:꺄아아악) 아직 있더라고...!! 포기하세요..!!! 그리고 론헤르를 원하는 다른 사람들이(사람들: 꺄아아악) ...그리고 진짜 특이한 커플링도 있었는데 우리 이건 다루지 말자.. (사람들; 리들해리!!!!!!!!!!!) 맞다... 그래서 그 주제에 대해 제인 오스틴ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ이 약간 피드백을 주는 장면을 상상했다..
Gregory Bernstein: My daughter has the question for J.K. Rowling. I have the comment. I can remember back in 1998, when my daughter was first learning how to read and becoming aware of the world around her, that the prevailing cultural phenomenon sweeping America and captivating its children were the Spice Girls and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (crowd laughs). Then Harry Potter came along, and a whole generation, including my daughter, learned to love reading, learned to love the characters you created, and learned to love imagination, and learned to appreciate great writing. In addition you handed her a tremendous role model in Hermione -- intelligence, studious (crowd applauds and screams), humane, and compassionate. So for all the great characters and role models you've created, and for all the love of reading you've encouraged and and for all of the imagination you've inspired, I and a whole bunch of other parents owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude, so as a parent, I just wanted to say thank you (massive cheering and applause).
Catherine Bernstein: When you started writing and faced rejection, did you ever think of giving up? And if you had, what do you think you'd be doing now? (Crowd laughs)
J.K. Rowling: Well, there was quite a lot of rejection, but it was squeezed into a relatively short period of time. So, I got an agent on my second attempt, which is pretty amazing, but then it was a couple of years before it was accepted a publisher. Maybe slightly less, but it was certainly a couple of years before it was fully accepted and I started writing it. And during that time, did I ever feel like giving up? No, truthfully, I didn't, because I really believed in the story, and I really loved the story.
Iris Murdoch, who is a British writer, now deceased, once said, "Writing a novel is a lot like getting married. You should never commit yourself until you can't believe your luck." And I really couldn't believe my luck having had this idea and I was determined to press on with it until the last publisher had rejected it, which, at one point, looked likely (crowd laughs). Would I have stopped writing? Definitely not. But if I'd never been published, you know, in the sixteen years between having the idea of Harry and now? I think I probably would have accepted that, after sixteen years...do we know of a writer who made it after sixteen years of rejection? There probably is one, but I think you'd have to have a lot of self belief after sixteen years. I'm sure I would still be writing, but I might have stopped sending the manuscript around. And what would I be doing? I'd be teaching. That's what I was doing (crowd applauds).
Soledad O'Brien: I want to thank all of you for your questions and of course thanks to everybody this evening for being apart of this incredible night. Thank you (crowd applauds and screams).
Stephen King: On behalf of my colleagues, I want to tell you that this was a magic night for us to be able to fill Radio City Music Hall on behalf of two wonderful charities. Not with guitars but with book readers (crowd screams and applauds). Thank you to all the presenters, thanks to John Irving, and thanks to Jo Rowling (crowd applauds loudly).
Photographs: 
The Leaky Cauldron Galleries.
See also:
- Press conference for "An Evening with Harry, Carrie and Garp," Aug. 1
- "An Evening with Harry, Carrie and Garp" Readings and questions, Aug. 2
Readings and questions #2, August 2, 2006
Date: 2 August 2006.
Location: Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY.
Also starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Robbins, Stephen King, Stanley Tucci, John Irving, and Kathy Bates.
Context: benefit reading to raise money for Doctors Without Borders and the Haven Foundation.
Audio:
Video: mp4 (in 4 parts)
Transcription credits: HPANA and The Leaky Cauldron with corrections and notes by Lisa Bunker.
Skip to the readings:
Stephen King | John Irving | J.K. Rowling | Final 8 questions
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JK Rowling: No pressure then. No pressure. Like I wasn't feeling pressured enough already (crowd laughs). You talk about Beatlemania, I feel slightly like I'm Herman and the Hermits having to go on after the Stones and the Beatles (crowd laughs). My consolation is I have the most interesting shoes (crowd roars with applause). Snakes. Thank you for that.
I notice you like Snape. Just never give up hope you people, do you?
Anyway, I'm going to do a short reading from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (crowd screams). Short because umm, in my experience, my readers like me to answer questions and like me to hasten on to that part so I'm going to take a few questions after I've done this reading.
This concerns a part of the story where Harry goes back in time and watches as Albus Dumbledore -- a younger Albus Dumbledore -- goes to inform another famous pupil of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that he has a place at the school (crowd cheers). And you really shouldn't be cheering that particular one (crowd laughs). Snape I can kind of see but - anyway....
(JK Rowling reads her passage from chapter 13 of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince")
JK Rowling: Thank you. You may have noticed, nobody told me the theme of the readings was to be vomit. So umm (crowd laughs), I could have done something with the puking pastilles but I was - I didn't know. Anyway, we have some questions now.
Christina: My name is Christina and I'm 13 years old and from Staten Island, New York. If you could bring one Harry Potter character to life, other than Harry, who would it be?
JK Rowling: If I could bring somebody to life?
Christina: Other than Harry.
JK Rowling: Other than Harry. Umm, personally, although it's a really tricky one, Hagrid. If I could have anyone (crowd applauds). Because I think - I think we'd all like a Hagrid in our life. Liability though he often is. It would be really great if I met a fundamentalist Christian, to say, "Would you like to discuss the matter with Hagrid?" (crowd laughs and applauds).
(To next person waiting) Hello.
Unknown (1): I'm 18 years old and I'm from New York. My question is, in Half-Blood Prince, Aunt Petunia is said to be oddly flushed when Dumbledore announces that Harry will be returning only once more to Privet Drive. Does this mean that Aunt Petunia harbors a hidden love or fondness for Harry and the connection he provides her to the wizarding world? (crowd laughs and applauds).
JK Rowling: That's an excellent question (crowd laughs). And like all the best and most penetrating questions, it's difficult to answer. But, I will say this. There is a little more to Aunt Petunia than meets the eye and you will find out what that is in book seven (crowd roars and applauds).
Cory Mayer: My name's Cory Mayer and I'm 9 years old and I'm from Bordentown, New Jersey. I absolutely love your books. I'm not a big reader but your books make me want to read and that makes my mom happy (crowd and JK Rowling laugh). She loves your books too. In a recent interview you hinted at two main characters dying and possibly Harry Potter too. Was Dumbledore considered one of the main characters or will we have the chance to see him in action once again? Since he is the most powerful wizard of all time and Harry Potter is so loyal to him, how could he really be dead?
JK Rowling: Ohhhhhhhh (Jo puts her head in her arms and crowd cheers and applauds). I feel terrible (crowd laughs). The British writer Graham Green once said that every writer had to have a chip of ice in their heart. Oh no (Jo says half weeping while crowd laughs). I think you may just have ruined my career (crowd laughs). Umm, I really can't answer that question because the answer is in book seven but ... you shouldn't expect Dumbledore to do a Gandalf. Let me just put it that way. I'm sorry (crowd moans and applauds).
Salman and Milan Rushdie: Hello. We are Salman and Milan Rushdie (crowd applauds). Umm -
JK Rowling: I'm not that sure this is fair (crowd laughs). I think you might be better at guessing plots than most. But anyway, off you go.
Salman and Milan Rushdie: We are 9 and 59. And one of us is good at guessing plots, not me. And this is really Milan's question and it's kind of a follow up to the previous one.
JK Rowling: Alright. Okay.
Salman and Milan Rushdie: Until the events of Volume 6, it was always made plain that Snape might have been an unlikable fellow but he was essentially one of the good guys (crowd screams approval).
JK Rowling: I can see this is the question you all really want answered.
Salman and Milan Rushdie: Dumbledore himself - Dumbledore himself had always vouched for him.
JK Rowling: Yes.
Salman and Milan Rushdie: Now we are suddenly told that Snape is a villain and Dumbledore's killer.
JK Rowling: Un hunh.
Salman and Milan Rushdie: We cannot, or don't want to believe this (crowd laughs). Our theory is that Snape is in fact, still a good guy (crowd applauds). From which it follows that Dumbledore can't really be dead and that the death is a ruse cooked up between Dumbledore and Snape to put Voldemort off his guard so that when Harry and Voldemort come face to face (crowd laughs). Harry may have more allies than he or Voldemort suspects. So, is Snape good or bad? (crowd laughs, applauds and screams and Jo chuckles). In our opinion, everything follows from it.
JK Rowling: Well, Salman, your opinion, I would say is ... right. But I see that I need to be a little more explicit and say that Dumbledore is definitely ... dead (crowd gasps). And I do know - I do know that there is an entire website out there that says - that's name is DumbledoreIsNotDead.com so umm, I'd imagine they're not pretty happy right now (crowd laughs). But I think I need - you need - all of you need to move through the five stages of grief (crowd laughs), and I'm just helping you get past denial. So, I can't remember what's next. It may be anger so I think we should stop it here. Thank you (crowd applauds).
So it is now my privilege to invite my fellow authors back onto the stage (crowd applauds). I don't feel worthy. So here, Stephen King and John Irving (crowd applauds).
Exsan Pre: Thank you. As a librarian, I would like to first thank you for attracting so many students and adults as well to reading. Since the Harry Potter series will be, unfortunately ending, what does the future for you, and for your readers hold? Do you have something planned to keep the anxious students and adults waiting to be released?
JK Rowling: I thought you were going to attack me for Madam Pince and I would like to apologize for you and any other librarians (crowd laughs) present here today and my get-out clause is always if they'd had a pleasant, helpful librarian, half my plots would be gone. 'Cause the answer invariably is in a book but Hermione has to go and find it. If they'd had a good librarian, that would have been that problem solved. So, sorry.
Umm, I have a shorter, mercifully, book for I think slightly younger children that's half-written so I may well go back to that when Harry's done. I think I'll need a short mourning period though. You have to allow me to get past Harry.
Exsan Pre: Thank you so much.
JK Rowling: Thank you (crowd applauds)
Soledad O'Brien: Our next question is from Martha Hoover. She is from Pennsylvania and the question is for JK Rowling.
Martha Hoover: Good evening. Thank you. It has been an honor. This evening my question for you is, what is the one question your fans have never asked you, and should have? (crowd laughs and applauds).
JK Rowling: Oh, God (crowd laughs). How can I answer that? I can think of a couple of things that give away the ending of book seven (crowd laughs). Having got this far ... having got 16 years down the line, I kind of feel that would throw it away (crowd laughs). For me, anyway, having put the effort in. I think that I've been asked excellent questions, it's just that the final book contains a couple of pieces of information that I don't think you could guess at. So umm - I would umm - I'm sorry.
You see, people think that it's all so fixed in my head. It's not that obsessively plotted out. For example, this afternoon I believe I changed my mind on the title of book seven (crowd oohhs). Having been quite convinced that I had the title, I suddenly thought, "No, that would be better, wouldn't it?" in the shower just before coming out here, so - (crowd laughs).
But you know what, I'm not going to tell you either version, because I don't - (crowd groans). Oh, come on! Now really! Have I not given you enough? I gave you Aunt Petunia. I told you Dumbledore is really (Jo moves finger across neck). So, I am trying to give something to you. Anyway. I'm sorry. I suppose it's that question. Everyone's really pleased you asked that question. It's me who's let everyone down, not you. sorry (crowd sighs and applauds).
Soledad O'Brien: I'm going to pose the final question to you and I'd like all three of you to take a stab at it. You can do it in any order that you would like. If you were to have dinner with any five characters from any of your books -- take a moment to think about it -- who would you invite, and why would they be on your list? Any order.
Stephen King: Any five characters, from any of my books? Honey, I'm eating alone. No I mean ... you answer (points at JK Rowling).
John Irving: You could just invite all the dead ones and then they wouldn't come (crowd laughs).
Stephen King: I would eat with Harry, Hermione and Ron, and....
Soledad O'Brien: No, no, no. Your own books.
Stephen King: And Owen. I don't know. I can think of other people's characters I'd eat with. And I can think of other people's character's I'd eat (crowd laughs hysterically). Somebody else. Somebody else answer that.
John Irving: You go (referring to JK Rowling)
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JK Rowling: Well I'd take Harry, to apologize to him (crowd laughs). Um, I'd have to take Harry, Ron and Hermione.
Stephen King: Sure.
JK Rowling: I would - this is - (crown shouts suggestions).
Stephen King: Hagrid, take Hagrid.
JK Rowling: See, I know who's actually dead.
Stephen King: Pretend you can take them anyways.
JK Rowling: Pretend I can take anyone? Well then I would definitely take Dumbledore. I'd take Dumbledore, Harry, Ron, Hermione...and.. (crowd shouts characters) um, Hagrid. I'd take Hagrid, yeah. And Owen because he wouldn't take up much space (crowd laughs).
- Press conference for "An Evening with Harry, Carrie and Garp," Aug. 1
- "An Evening with Harry, Carrie and Garp" Readings and questions, Aug. 1
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