JK Rowling Dropping Hints?

Over the Christmas holiday, JK Rowling added a few comments to the official Harry Potter website:

"I contemplate the task with mixed feelings of excitement and dread, because I can't wait to get started, to tell the final part of the story and, at last, to answer all the questions."

Simple enough, but newspapers and websites all over the world have gone crazy interpreting (or over-interpreting) the few paragraphs Rowling posted.

Marketing Starts Early

"It APPEARS that JK Rowling has dropped the biggest hint yet that the final Harry Potter book will spell the end for her boy wizard hero," blared the Scotsman, a British newspaper.

It's not exactly clear how that conclusion came from the JK Rowling quote, but a few other observers latched onto the same theory.

Harry Potter Theories and Predictions

According to Harry Potter's voice in US audio books � actor Jim Dale � JK Rowling is tempted to kill off Harry.

"She's lived with Harry Potter so long she really wants to kill him off," he said in the Scotsman. Dale has collaborated with Rowling in developing the right voice for Harry.

Whatever the truth, all we know is that JK Rowling claims she has already written the final chapter of the final Harry Potter installment and not any of the chapters leading up to it.

Global Marketing Campaign

Because the six previous books have been a global success, the marketing rollout for them has become a bit of an assembly line. Marketing executives are very good at keeping the buzz alive between the marketing blitzes that surround a book publishing or film release. JK Rowling's whispers on the website are just a part of that.

Marketing Jobs

A marketing career will often entail coming into a marketing campaign that is already a well-oiled machine. The role of the marketing careerist will be to make sure that all the right standards and creative necessities are maintained, to keep up the success of past campaigns.

Sources:
Scotsman