Top authors bat for Potter's life

Authors John Irving and Stephen King have launched a campaign to prevent Rowling from killing the boy wizard in the seventh book.

While Harry Potter fans all around the world wait with bated breath to see what JK Rowling has in store for the boy wizard in the seventh and final book, authors such as John Irving and Stephen King have joined the bandwagon pleading the author not to kill the wizard.

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The duo has now launched a campaign to prevent Rowling from killing Potter in the seventh book, and is confident that they can persuade the British author.

Speaking at a New York press conference, where the Rowling, Irving and King were staging a charity reading, Irving said that he was keeping his fingers crossed in the boy wizard’s favour.

"My fingers are crossed for Harry," Contactmusic quoted him, as saying.