Os três atores principais foram informados de certas coisas
Meredith Vieira: Do they know what hap-- did they know before this book came out?
J.K. Rowling: They knew certain things. I mean, none of them knew the ending. But-- I told all three of them stuff about their own characters.
Meredith Vieira: Did any of them ask, "Are you going to off me?"
J.K. Rowling: Yeah, Dan did, yeah.
Meredith Vieira: Daniel did? And did you tell him?
J.K. Rowling: I took him out to dinner … And at one point during dinner, he leaned in and he said, "Look, I've got— I've just got to ask you— do I die?" And I thought quick and then I whispered, so no one else could hear, you— you get a death scene. But Dan is very smart. And I'm pretty sure he would have walked away from that dinner thinking, "Yeah, I get a death scene, but what does that mean?" (LAUGHTER) — he dies. So I hope he's happy.
Meredith Vieira: Yeah, it is his career after all. (LAUGHTER)
"Harry Potter: The Final Chapter - NBC Dateline, July 29, 2007