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Rowling dreading finishing Potter series
Monday 18 July 2005
Rowling was speaking in her only UK television interview with teenage fan Owen Jones, who won the chance to put his questions to the author as part of an ITV show to find the ultimate Harry Potter fan.
When asked about finishing the series, Rowling said: "I am dreading it in some ways. I do love writing the books and it is going to be a shock, a profound shock to me."
"Even though I have known it is coming for the past fifteen years, I have known that the series would end, I think it will still be a shock," she said.
Rowling also said in the interview that she was hoping to start writing the final instalment in the series at the end of this year or the beginning of next year.
"I have already done some work on it and I am still doing little bits and pieces, but realistically I have still got a very young baby, so I think probably next year I will do the proper writing of book seven."
Rowling's latest book 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' is expected to be the fastest-selling book in history.
US bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc have reported sales of 1.3 million copies in the first 48 hours of the book's sale.
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