Some readers, and a fair few rival children's authors, might have been glad to see the back of the boy wizard, but a teary-eyed JK Rowling yesterday confessed to terrible anguish at parting company with Harry Potter. Collecting an award for outstanding achievement, she told the audience of her awful distress at bidding farewell to her world-beating fictional offspring.
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