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What a cutie! (as he was in How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying)
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The headline of my day. What would have become of Hermione without Ron-Ron? Would we have had a Harry-Hermione-Ginny love triangle? Ginny would have blasted Hermione to pieces.
But in a new special feature on theDeathly Hallows 2 DVD, author J. K. Rowling notes that she’d planned one fatality that would have probably scarred a generation of young readers. As reported by the Guardian, Rowling says, “I did seriously consider killing Ron.” Apparently, she briefly thought about killing off Harry’s red-headed sidekick around the middle of the series, when she “wasn’t in a very happy place.”
Back when this all started, Voldemort’s big move for power—the coup to end all coups—relied on murdering a drooly-faced Harry Potter, who just sat there innocently in his diapers as a large, angry man zapped him point blank with an Avada Kedavra curse. For those of you unfamiliar, this is the magical equivalent of a flamethrower that also launches grenades filled with acid. Onto a baby. Now that’s just cold.
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Comic artist Lucy Knisley has created a series of comics for each Harry Potter book (and two for Deathly Hallows, like the movies!). Hilarity ensues. I can’t stop giggling at these, especially when Dumbledore pats Harry on the back and says “good boy.”
You can download the whole series here
