What Jo says about...
What she won't tell us

Please note: unless you see quotemarks, these are summaries, and not JKR's words themselves. Please see the linked article for the actual text.

• Are you planning to kill off Ron? JKR: I can't let on too much. [Read the exact quote from School Library Journal, 1999]
• Hello! Will Sirius ever be proven innocent? Or have you not decided yet? Thank you very much!!
  JKR: "I have decided, but if I answer it gives away something quite important in the plot, so I'd rather not ... however, Sirius will be back in future books." [Read the exact quote from Barnes & Noble chat #2, 1999]
• She can’t tell us if she imagines Harry growing up because it will ruin the plot of book 7 for us [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
• She doesn’t like to tell people the titles of her books until they are finished; it is a superstition of hers. [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
• Harry & Hermione are platonic friends, "but I won't answer for anyone else, nudge, nudge, wink, wink." [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
• She won’t tell us what happened to Harry’s grandparents. [Read the exact quote from National Press Club, 1999]
• JKR said she couldn’t answer questions about religious content until the end of the seventh book. [Read the exact quote from the Chicago Sun-Times, 1999]
• GoF is so long because she realized partway through writing it that there was "a big hole in the middle of the plot and I had to go back and unpick and redo." She won’t tell us what the flaw was. [Read the exact quote from the South West News Service interview, 2000]
• Will Harry Time travel again? JKR: "Not telling!" [Read the exact quote from the AOL chat, 2000]
• Why did Dumbledore have a look of triumph in his eyes at the end of book four?
  JKR: "Good question … excellent, in fact, and like all the best questions I get asked, I can’t answer it! Because it would give too much away. However, well-spotted. Have fun guessing … someone’s bound to get it right!" [Read the exact quote from the AOL chat, 2000]
• Telling us Professor Snape's patronus and boggart would give too much away. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• Will the two way mirror Sirius gave Harry ever show up again? JKR: Ooooo, good question. There’s your answer. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• JKR won't tell us if Harry will see Sirius again. [Read the exact quote from World Book Day, 2004]
• Does the prophecy mean that both Harry and Voldemort need to die? JKR: "Both Madam Trelawney and I worded the prophecy extremely carefully"[Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• In 'Chamber of Secrets,' what would have happened if Ginny had died and Tom Riddle had escaped the diary? JKR: cannot answer except to say Voldemort would have been stronger. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Harry will "survive to book seven" but JKR refused to confirm whether he would grow up to be a wizard. [Read the exact quote from Edinburgh Book Festival, 2004]
• The Lestranges were not after Neville, they were definitely after his parents. JK cannot say too much more about this because it touches closely on the prophecy, and on how many people knew about it. The Lestranges were not in on the secret. [Read the exact quote from Jo's website]
• Why did Voldemort offer Lily so many chances to live? JKR: "Can't tell you." [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• JK won't answer if Snape is evil or not because it will have such a huge impact on what will happen when Harry and Snape meet again: "I love the theories." [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• JK will not comment on whether or not Sirius' mirror will allow communication with Regulus or not. [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• JK won't tell us if Dumbledore was planning to die. "I have to give people hope." [Read the whole quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• Grindelwald is dead; JK won’t say if he is important or not. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• JK won’t tell us if there will be another scene in the locked room in the Department of Mysteries. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• JK won’t tell us if anyone else was present in Godric’s Hollow the night Harry’s parents were killed. [Read the entire quote from the Leaky Cauldron, 2005]
• Fawkes has always been owned by Dumbledore. She will not answer a question about his role in the next book "which probably gives you a big clue." Fawkes is Dumbledore's possession, not a Hogwarts possession. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• JK will not tell us if Lord Voldemort ever finds out what the prophecy fully said. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]
• When asked if Harry's eyes are important, Jo agrees that they are mentioned again and again, but won't say any more. [Read the whole quote from ITV, 2005]