на английском
When you are writing Harry Potter, how often do you find the story taking you somewhere you never expected to go?
JK Rowling: It has happened. It happened much more in the earlier books than it happens now, because these days things are sort of becoming tighter and tighter. I have now plotted the books over such a long time that I don't really have much leeway to stray from my plot and once I reach book 7, there has to be no margin because I know exactly what I have to do now and I am going to go ahead and do it. But in the early days things did wander off and sometimes still characters want to go one way and I want them to go another way and sometimes the best thing to do is write that way out of your system and put it to one side and carry on. Hermione often goes wandering. во-первых, последняяя фраза, во-втрых, не оч. поняла, она что таки пишет и откладывает в сторону такие завихрени. Это наводит на мысли... ))
I would go as far as to say that whatever happened and whoever took over at the Ministry, Umbridge would be there, she likes power.
Вах! Не уж то Волдеморт...
I was a bit teary with Sirius, but I was seriously upset at the end of this book.
I would say the two books I have enjoyed writing most, and I have been most relaxed in my life at the time, were Azkaban and Prince.
Interestingly, although Rowling is a member of the Church of Scotland, the books are free of references to God. On this point, Rowling is cagey. "Um. I don't think they're that secular," she says, choosing her words slowly. "But, obviously, Dumbledore is not Jesus.")
I think Phoenix could have been shorter. I knew that, and I ran out of time and energy toward the end," she says. She is worried that Goblet was overpraised. "In every single book, there's stuff I would go back and rewrite," she says. "But I think I really planned the hell out of this one. I took three months and just sat there and went over and over and over the plan, really fine-tuned it, looked at it from every angle. I had learnt, maybe, from past mistakes.