J.K. Rowling said
that she cried as she wrote the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Ghastly Hallows.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling broke down in tears while writing the final book of the boy wizard’s adventures, echoing the feelings of many fans as they await the end of the series.



“I was in a hotel room on my own, I was sobbing my heart out, I downed half a bottle of champagne from the mini-bar in one and went home with mascara all over my face,” Rowling, 41, said in a BBC interview to be broadcast today.



The final novel in the seven-book series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be published on July 21. Advance orders made it online bookseller Amazon.com Inc.’s U.K. top- seller eight hours after the title was revealed in a puzzle on Rowling’s Web site Dec. 21. The novels have all been No. 1 best- sellers, spawning movies, audio books and computer games.



Commenting on speculation that the final word of the

book is “Scar,” Rowling said, “Scar? It was so for ages, and now it’s not. Scar is quite near the end, but it’s not the last word.”
Harry’s friend Hermione Granger is based on Rowling as a child. “I was quite swotty as a child,” but Harry is a totally imaginary character, she said. Ron Weasley, another of Harry’s friends, is “a lot like my oldest friend Sean,” she said.



Rowling said last year that two characters die in the final book, leading many people to speculate that she may have decided to kill off the central character.

Swotty means “geeky”, and Rowling has said before in interviews that she was a genuine bookworm and know it all when she was a girl. She had better not have been weeping because Harry died, that’s all we can say.



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