Transporter 2 Jo has written a

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Jo has written a piece for the Writers Guild of America, West magazine Written By where she writes about 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 transporter 2 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 transporter 2 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 transporter 2 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.