J. K. Rowling was part of a news conference in association with a reading in NYC, and the Hary Potter Fanzone has links to everything from a video, to an audio file, to a transcript. Rowlings says the final book, now that she has reached the point of no return on the plot lines, is proving to be easy, but that she expects to miss Harry, who has been part of her life for so long. Two of the three major characters are still scheduled to die.