Finishing Harry Potter books felt like suffering a bereavement, says JK Rowling trends now
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She spent almost two decades creating an elaborate magical world beloved by millions of readers across the globe.
But JK Rowling has admitted that finally completing the Harry Potter series felt like a ‘bereavement’.
The Edinburgh-based author immersed herself in writing the novels and saw the ‘Potter phenomenon’ exceed all expectations to become the most popular children’s books of the modern era.
Ms Rowling first came upon the idea for Harry Potter, played in the films by Daniel Radcliffe, below, in 1990 while delayed on a train from Manchester to London.
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In 1997, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first of what would be a seven book series was published. But when she completed the final book in 2007, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, she said she felt both relief and a sense of loss.
The author now predicts the same feeling will affect her when she completes her series of books written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith about the private detective Cormoran Strike.
Ms Rowling said: ‘I lived a huge amount of my life in that world in a way no one else can.
‘Some of those 17 years had been quite traumatic for me, and this was a place I was escaping into.
‘So the idea I would never be able to escape there again was a bereavement.
In 1997, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published
‘That said, to be very
