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<table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" width="95%" border="0"><tbody><tr valign="bottom" align="left"><td class="c12" valign="middle" align="left" width="96%"><p>下面这则新闻可能会令《哈》迷伤心万分，哈里·波特的故事将在《哈利·波特》系列故事第七部中终结，而且，哈利·波特可能会在故事结束时死去。据外电报道，《哈利·波特》小说作者罗琳表示：书中的三名主人公有一人已幸免于难，但另外两位将会死去。”虽然罗琳没有说出这两位将要死去的人究竟是谁，但她随后的一句——“我从来不想在大结局时杀死哈利”——令人深思，因为这将暗示，在本书结束时，广受大家热爱的哈利·波特可能会离开人间。</p></td><td class="c12" width="4%"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" width="98%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" height="6"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" bgcolor="#e4d8b8" height="1"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" height="12"></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" width="97%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="e14"><strong></strong></td></tr><tr valign="bottom" align="left"><td class="e14"><p><table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" width="134" align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" style="WIDTH: 134px; HEIGHT: 18px;"><tbody><tr><td valign="middle" align="left" bgcolor="#ffffff"><img alt="" hspace="0" src="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/2006-06/28/xin_170603281059940382127.jpg" align="baseline" border="0"/></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p></p><p></p><p>Speaking on Monday evening, Joanne Kathleen Rowling, 40, said she was well on the way to finishing the eagerly-awaited seventh Potter book. </p><p>"I wrote the final chapter in something like 1990, so I've known exactly how the series is going to end," she told a <strong><font color="#808000">chat show</font></strong> on Channel 4 television. </p><p>"The final chapter is hidden away although it's now changed very slightly. One character got a reprieve. But I have to say two die that I didn't intend to die," Rowling said. </p><p>"A price has to be paid, we are dealing with pure evil here. They don't target extras, do they? They go for the main characters -- well, I do." </p><p>Asked whether one of the <strong><font color="#808000">casualties</font></strong> would be Potter himself, Rowling said she had never been tempted to kill off the magician before the finale. </p><p>At the same time, she added: "I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks, <strong><font color="#808000">'Well I'm gonna kill them off because that means there can be no non-author written sequels. So it will end with me and after I'm dead and gone they won't be able to bring back the character'</font></strong> ." </p><p>The author said she did not want to commit herself either way on Potter's fate, telling interviewers Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan: "I don't want the hate mail, apart from anything else." </p><p>Rowling, who shot to fame from humble roots, also revealed that she still writes in cafes and based the character of Potter's good friend Hermione on a combination of herself and her sister when they were young. </p><p>As for the future after Potter, Rowling said: "I don't think I'm ever going to have anything like Harry again. You just get one like Harry." </p><p>The first six books in the series have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide and been translated into 63 languages. </p><p>The first four have also been made into blockbuster movies. </p><p>The seventh novel is reportedly due to be published next year at the earliest. </p><p><br/>(Agencies)</p></td></tr></tbody></table><font size="+0"><p><table height="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#e4d8b8" height="2"></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="95%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="e12b"><font class="english11b" color="#ff9900">Vocabulary: </font></td></tr><tr><td class="e12"> </td></tr><tr><td class="e12"><p><strong>chat show</strong>:（电视或广播电台的）访谈节目<br/><br/><strong>casualty</strong>: 人员伤亡<br/><br/><strong>'Well I'm gonna kill them ... back the character'</strong>: 这句话道出了“为什么小说作者往往让成功系列故事主人公死去”的原因：我将杀死他们（小说的主人公），这样就不会有另外的作者写续集了。小说将与我一起终结，在我死后小说人物不会再回来了。<br/></p></td></tr></tbody></table></p></font> |
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