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JK says final farewell to Harry

Fri 20 Jul 6:20 PM

The final Harry Potter book - Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - is released at midnight tonight (July 21), and author J.K. Rowling has posted a last farewell on her website.

The Scottish-based writer wrote: "Within hours you will know what happens to Harry, Ron, Hermione (pic) and the rest in their final adventure. All the secrets I have been carrying around for so long will be yours, too, and those who guessed correctly will be vindicated, and those who guessed wrongly will not, I hope, be too disappointed! As for me, I feel a heady mixture of excitement, nerves and relief. Deathly Hallows remains my favourite of the series."

J.K. also posted an emotional list of acknowledgments which ended on a special note for her eldest child.

She posted: "The very last person to be thanked is the most important person of all, the one to whom I owe the greatest debt of gratitude. I wrote the final draft of the first three chapters of 'Philosopher's Stone' while pregnant with my eldest daughter Jessica. She has never known what it is like to live without her fictional brother, Harry Potter. [...] The fact that Deathly Hallows will sit beside Jessica's bed until it becomes dog-eared and falls apart means more to me than anything else, more than the huge print run, more than all the publicity in the world. So thank you Decca (And tidy your room. It's disgusting. Mum x)."