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After three long years of waiting for the Potter fans, the 766-page fifth instalment in the Harry Potter series will finally go on sale midnight today in bookstores in Britain, the United States and around the English-speaking world. ``Fame is a very odd and very isolating experience, and I know people crave it. I find that very hard to understand,'' Rowling said. ``I never wanted it and I never expected it and certainly did not work for it and I see it as something that I have to get through really,'' Rowling said. Rowling, once a poverty-stricken single mother who is now worth an estimated £280 million ($ 470 million) said that her wealth made her feel guilty. ``This came to me through doing the thing that I love doing most,'' she said, adding she didn't ``suffer enough for it.'' Ms. Rowling also confessed that one of the principal characters in the Potter series would die in ``Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.'' ``This time it is someone I consider to be a main character.'' Harry now ``is very much in puberty, having as easy a time of it as I did,'' she said. ``Yes, he's very confused in a boy way. He doesn't understand how girls' minds work... This time Harry really, for the first time, does have a relationship of sorts... I think you will find it painful, it is painful, but it was such fun to write,'' she said. ``Poor Harry! What I put him through,'' she said. In a BBC interview yesterday, she said the pressure was once so great that she fantasized about breaking her arm to avoid a rapidly approaching deadline. ``Press attention had reached a hitherto unknown level, and I couldn't work outside the house any more,'' she said. She said she survived the bad patch by taking time off between the fourth and the fifth instalment of the book. She has already started work on the sixth book, picking up a pen when still pregnant with her new son David. ``I actually did get some writing done the other day; and that's not bad going because he's only 10 weeks. So he's pretty full time at the moment.'' Everything is bigger in this book, starting with the number of pages — the 870-page tome is by far the longest of the series. At this rate, the seventh book might have to be published in two volumes. Harry's world now extends far past the grounds of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, all the way to London. He comes in contact with people who aren't just the fellow students and teachers he normally deals with. He has to start thinking about the future, about what profession he'd like to take up after finishing school. AFP, AP
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