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Stephen King and pal John Irving, two of America’s leading authors, are making some sort of plea to JK Rowling to spare Harry Potter’s life in the final book of the series.

King, who shot to fame in 1974 with “Carrie,” said he had confidence that Rowling would be “fair” to her hero.

“I don’t want him to go over the Reichenbach Falls,” King said in a reference to Arthur Conan Doyle’s effort to kill off the character of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Pressure from fans eventually led Conan Doyle to resurrect Holmes, who was found in a later story to have survived.

Rowling should listen to King and Irving–after all, these guys are two weavers of sunshiny tales filled with furry little creatures who never die.

If I were Rowling, I’d take at least Stephen King very seriously, lest I figure in a strange, violent death involving cellphones giving birth to zombies, small undead little girls crawling on the floor, and people dying from “cancer of the pseudonym.”

via REUTERS

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