This is shaping up to be quite the banner week for Harry Potter fans, because in addition to our PotterCast interview with Jo, we now have the first look at the upcoming J.K. Rowling...A Year in the Life documentary that will be broadcast later this month on ITV. (Another, showing an emotional Jo visiting her old flat, will be available Sunday.) In this exclusive clip sent to fan sites including TLC, we can see Jo, writing at desk in the Balmoral hotel on January 11 of this year amid piles of notebooks, coffee cups, and discarded gum wrappers, where she says "Yea I've think I've finished," as she stops typing the final words in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." In an emotional moment, J.K. Rowling says that fans will either love it or hate it when the read the last installment in the Harry Potter series, but says she is "really really happy with it." To watch this special moment, please click here to our video galleries JK Rowling...A Year in the Life documentary filmed by James Runcie will be broadcast on UK channel ITV December 30 at 7pm.
I’m just gonna take this opportunity to thank Jo for letting us see this, after all were only visitors in her world and she went way beyond my expectations, I thank you Miss Rowling for your writing being such a huge part of my childhood and helped shape who I am today aged 20. Thank You. And thanks to Leaky for (lets face it) being the greatest Harry Potter fansite there is!
You may be able to watch it live on ITV.com as they have live streams on each ITV channel as the show is being aired, and if you miss it you can catch up the day after. I hope you allmanage to get to see the show. I recently missed Daniel Radcliffe in My Boy Jack and I was able to catch up the day after.
@Pinefresh, Its not that hard to imagine at all.
This was the most fitting way to end the series, while its not my favourtie book out of the series, it is stil the best way to finish the series.
i can’t imagine someone loathing the book. feeling lukewarm about it, not liking it, yes. but loathing is a very strong word. but jo gets fan mail from all different kinds of people and if she thinks people will loathe something, i trust that she’s right.
Considering that I have listened to the first part of the brilliant PotterCast Jo interview five times already I can see watching this over and over if it’s available on DVD.
Expectations? I had the highest expectations for Deathly Hallows. I didn’t have any preconcieved notions as to what would happen. I did believe that what Jo would write would be better than any of the fanfics. Thanks to Leaky, I was able to remain spoiler free before I read the book. It was a very heady experience to finally read it too. It was SO much better than anything I had imagined that it ultimately replaced Order of the Phoenix as my favorite book in the series.
Posted by Ravenclaw from Glenn on December 20, 2007, 06:14 PM
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Bless her! Is it possible for me to love her any more than I already do? Apparently, yes: she is just a classic lady with my sense of humor (and cough we are so hard to come by, aren’t we Jo?)
Posted by Mrs. de Mimsy-Porpington on December 20, 2007, 06:23 PM
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It’s such a powerful moment. I seriously almost cried when I watched it.
If you ever read this, Jo, you did wonderfully. It was perfect.
She’s such a brilliant person. It’s difficult not to see her as a role model. I try not to, because I realise that it’s a very awkward position to be in, but she does appear to be brilliant in so many ways.
I’m just gonna take this opportunity to thank Jo for letting us see this, after all were only visitors in her world and she went way beyond my expectations, I thank you Miss Rowling for your writing being such a huge part of my childhood and helped shape who I am today aged 20. Thank You. And thanks to Leaky for (lets face it) being the greatest Harry Potter fansite there is!