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There is a new interview of Jo in the Words with Jam magazine, where she discusses books she read as a child, life-changing books, books she re-reads, her priorities for her use of time, her opinions on e-books and how she uses them herself, and her secret talents. Jo has written a piece for the Writers Guild of America, West magazine Written By where she writes musafir songs collaborating with Steve Kloves as he worked on the screen play for the Harry Potter movies, including their first meeting where he revealed his favourite character is Hermione, and how much he understood the characters in their subsequent email discussions over the years. The full article can be read in the online copy of the magazine. Jo appeared on the edition of the Oprah Show first broadcast on 1st October 20 The show website has some extra footage and an article about Jo based on material from the interview. Leaky has a video of the interview, and a partial transcript. Jo was one of the authors appearing at this years White House Easter Egg Roll, where she read from Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, and then answered questions from the gathered children. We now have a transcript of her answers here. In particular she said She might want to do something else with Harrys world in the future but has no plans at present. Her favourite characters at the moment apart from Harry, Ron and Hermione are Dumbledore who she misses most, Hagrid and Lupin, also Snape because she loved writing him. She wouldnt want a house elf because she would find them creepy, and would free any in her house. Hermione was the first character she thought of after Harry. She was originally going to be the Potters neighbour when their house was destroyed. She was inspired by the fate of the Spinal Tap drummers to have a different Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher each year. She is writing other books but is having a break from being published. However she is sure that she will bring out another book in the not too distant future though it wont be Harry. On 3rd February, Jo was presented with the L gion dhonneur by the French president. Mugglenet have a translation of Jos acceptance speech which was in French, in which she talks of her great-grandfather who also received this honour, and explains that she chose a French name for Voldemort to evoke both power and exoticism, though Voldemort is actually 100% English. TLC have pointed out that Bloomsbury now have video from the Beedle release party, including a reading from The Fountain of Fair Fortune, and a couple of question and answer sessions. She reveals that the longest story she wrote at the age of eleven was about seven cursed diamonds, and there are echoes of it in Harry Potter, her least favourite subject was chemistry, which is why potions is taught in the dungeons with a nasty teacher, and her favourite authors when she was young include Elizabeth Goudge, for The Little White Horse Paul Gallico, and E. Nesbit, who wrote a very funny book of fairy tales, which she would recommend to someone who liked Beedle the Bard. Also, she loved writing as Dumbledore again, and is still writing, but wont say what she is working on. Reuters has a report from the Beedle the Bard release tea party. In it Jo reveals that the inspiration to publish Beedle the Bard came from the fans, saying There was quite a lot of high feeling from Harry Potter fans that only someone who had two million pounds could afford to read the book. I thought fair point, so I thought Ill publish it and then the charity can have that money too. She also reveals that she gave Ron her own fear of spiders, which is also shared by the actor who plays Ron in the films, Rupert Grint. Update: More details of the questions asked are emerging. TLC has a report revealing that none of the invented Harry Potter locations are based on actual places. CBBC reports that Jo can remember some teachers thinking that I was good at story writing, and I used to love it when my stories were read out to the class. I admit that, at first glance, the extract Ive chosen for The Birthday Book might not seem particularly celebratory, given that it has for its subject my hero walking to what he believes will be certain death. But when Harry takes his last, long walk into the heart of the Dark Forest, he is choosing to accept a burden that fell on him when still a tiny child, in spite of the fact that he never sought the role for which he has been cast, never wanted the scar with which he has been marked. As his mentor, Albus Dumbledore, has tried to make clear to Harry, he could have refused to follow the path marked out for him. In spite of the weight of opinion and expectation that singles him out as the Chosen One, it is Harrys own will that takes him into the Forest to musafir songs Voldemort, prepared to suffer the fate that he escaped sixteen years before. The destinies of wizards and princes might seem more certain than those carved out for the rest of us, yet we all have to choose the manner in which we meet life: whether to live up or down to the expectations placed upon us; whether to act selfishly, or for the common good; whether to steer the course of our lives ourselves, or to allow ourselves to be buffeted around by chance and circumstance. Birthdays are often moments for reflection, moments when we pause, look around, and take stock of where we are; children gleefully contemplate how far they have come, whereas adults look forwards into the trees, wondering how much further they have to go. This extract from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is my favourite part of the seventh book; it might even be my favourite part of the entire series, and in it, Harry demonstrates his truly heroic nature, because he overcomes his own terror to protect the people he loves from death, and the whole of his society from tyranny. The Tales of Beedle the Bard will be launched at a tea party at 4pm on 4th December 2008 at the National Library of Scotland. The children present will be from local schools or from competitions run by the publishers Scholastics is here. Jo will read to them and they will see one of the original seven copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard on loan from Barry Cunningham which remains on display there for the next month. Arthur Levines copy goes on display at The New York Public Library for a similar period. In the press release Jo says of the work of The Childrens High Level Group, to which the proceeds of Beedle the Bard are going; Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children in Eastern Europe are living in appalling conditions in large, residential institutions. Contrary to popular belief, fewer than 4% of them are orphans, but are in care because they are considered disabled or their families are poor or from ethnic minorities. The charity is publishing The Tales of Beedle the Bard to raise money to fund our work in helping these children out of institutions and in to loving families or community care homes.