JK Rowling has shared the dialog she had with actor Alan Rickman, when she revealed to him the true problems of his character within the Harry Potter motion pictures.
Rickman performed Severus Snape, Harry’s trainer and obvious tormentor who ultimately seems to be working for good forces, together with defending Harry in opposition to the likes of Voldermort and his acolytes.
Rowling has recorded an interview for her web site, answering followers’ questions on her writing course of, with a preview transcribed in immediately’s Occasions of London. In it, she describes how Rickman was confused concerning the motivations of his character earlier than she defined them to him. She revealed:
“He rang me up and stated, ‘Look, I’m spinning plates right here. I really want to grasp what Snape’s as much as? Am I a pure baddie?’ He was the one individual I informed: ‘You had been in love with Harry’s mom.’
“I talked him by it: ‘You’re a double agent. However you do dislike Harry. You possibly can’t overcome your fairly visceral dislike of this boy who appears to be like similar to your arch enemy.’ So I informed Alan Rickman what was coming, means earlier than it got here within the motion pictures.”
Rickman, who died in 2016, performed Snape in all eight of the films of the bestselling e-book collection. Snape was one among a number of most important figures to be ultimately killed off, and Rowling shared her misery at having to put off characters she had created:
“I don’t like killing off characters, nevertheless it’s a part of life, isn’t it? Killing Snape was terrible. I at all times knew he was going to go. I couldn’t bear killing Lupin and Tonks [Harry’s teacher and his wife], that was so unhappy. Oh and Fred [Weasley].”
Rowling says she at present has two books left to write down in her hit detective Cormoran Strike collection, and 6 books in her head in whole. She is the bestselling writer on the planet, with reported gross sales of 600million books.