“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” will hit the store shelves in July 21 and besides being the last book, the fans are eagerly to find out who is going to die.
J.K. Rowling announced that in this final book two main
characters will die, but she didn’t say who they are. Last year, speaking about
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, Rowling said: "One character got a
reprieve, but I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die...A price has
to be paid. We are dealing with pure evil here"
Asked whether one of the characters would be Harry himself, she said that she understood authors such as Agatha Christie killed off their main characters to prevent other writers from hijacking them. "Agatha Christie did that with Poirot, didn't she? She wanted to finish him off herself," said Rowling. She refused to elaborate, as "I don't want the hate mail or anything else".
This lead to rampant speculations that author JK Rowling decided to kill off her hero, boy wizard Harry Potter. JK Rowling completed the seventh and final book in February this year.
On Sunday the British newspaper reported that in order to
guard the secret, publishers Bloomsbury have rented properties in London to
store the freshly printed copies of the eagerly awaited novel and have put in
place an operation "featuring an army of guards, satellite tracking
systems and draconian legal contracts". Also for delivering the books to the booksellers
"We have a litigation specialist poised 24 hours a day,
seven days a week to deal with any breaches. It is our intention to enforce the
embargo vigorously and seek an immediate injunction if required." a
spokesman for
Under tight security, the company will begin shipping the
Potter book to its stores starting on Monday, July 16th. Twelve million copies
of the 784-page tome have been printed for the