DATE: __________________________________________

Listen and complete the lines:

JK Rowling says shes sorry she killed off your favorite

character

This year marks the 18th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts,

and_________ ____________ __________
_______________, "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling is
apologizing for the death of everyone's favorite _____________
________________ _________ ___________ __________
________________.

Fans first met Remus Lupin in book three when he saved Harry from
a ________________. He ______________ in the Battle of
Hogwarts in book seven, along with his wife, Nymphadora Tonks.

Apologizing for killing off characters _________

_______________ something of a tradition for Rowling.

In ___________, she held a moment of silence. Last year,

she apologized for ________________, saying she started with him
because he was _________ ___________ ______________
character for her to kill off. And this year was Lupin's turn.

Rowling explained Lupin ultimately _________ ___________

dying so Ron's father, Arthur Weasley, could live, tweeting, "The only
time my editor _________ _________ _______ __________
was over the fate of [Lupin's son] Teddy."

In fact, killing off Teddy's parents was a very calculated move on

Rowling's part.

After the final book in the series was released in __________,

Rowling told NBC: "I wanted there to be an echo of what
_______________ to Harry just to show the absolute evil of what
Voldemort's ____________. The fact that you leave _____________
and you leave children who then have to make their way in the world
uncared for and ________________."
Rowling can keep this apology tradition going for many years to
come, since she killed off plenty of characters during the_______
_____________ ______ _______________.

And ___________, she can always move on to important characters

who perished in other books, right? 'Cause we ________
_________ ____________ over the death of _________
____________.

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