Harry Potter: 10 Times JK Rowling Admitted To Changing Her Plans
8. The Last Word Was Always Going To Be 'Scar'
Take yourself back, if you can, to a time before all of the Harry Potter books had been released. Do you remember being a part of all of the rumours and fan theories? For years upon years, JK Rowling had said that the final word of her epic saga was going to be 'scar.' She'd planned it from the beginning, and it had such symmetry, the stories opening and closing with Harry's famous lightning-bold-shaped wound. No fan doubted it.
Eventually, though, The Deathly Hallows came out - and the final sentence turn out to simply be "all was well."
Here's what Rowling had to say in an interview with NBC:
"I changed it because I wanted a more – when I came to write it, I wanted a very concrete statement that Harry won. And that the scar, although it's still there, it's now just a scar. And I wanted to say it's over. It's done. And maybe a tiny bit of that was to say to people, "No, Voldemort's not rising again. We're not going to have Part Two. Harry's job is done." So that's why I changed it [to "all was well"]."
Do some of the sentiments in this quote count as a bonus time JK changed her mind? We may not have had a 'Part Two' but we certainly got an eighth story in which Voldemort did rise again.