Author J.K. Rowling said on Monday that at least two characters will be killed off in the seventh and final installment of her Harry Potter book series.

“One character got a reprieve, but I have to say two die that I didn’t intend to die,” she said in an interview broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4.

She didn’t give any further details about which characters might be exiting the story.

But Rowling also didn’t exclude her main character from a possible death at the end of the series.

“I’ve never been tempted to kill [Harry] off before the end of book seven, because I always planned seven books and that’s where I want to go,” she said. “I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks ‘Well, I’m going to kill them off because that means there can be no non-author-written sequels.”

The Harry Potter series was created by Rowling, 40, when she was an unemployed single mother. Over 300 million copies of the books have been sold, giving the author an estimated personal fortune of more than $1 billion US.






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