JKR's Tatler interview...

...did not really say much that we did not already know or could not guess. But then, considering all the pressure and media interest in the lady, she would have to be more secretive than Freemasonry, the Mafia and MI6 combined, for anything very new to have gone unsaid or unnoticed thus far.

However, there is one reason at least why I am grateful for it: they had a photographer who was convinced, and managed to get JKR convinced as well, that she could and should look beautiful. Her photos in the feature, though slightly doll-like, are an indication of just how lovely she could look if she let herself.

This may sound secondary, frivolous, perhaps even sexist, when speaking of a great writer. But beauty, however fleeting, however misused, is a good thing in itself, and we ought to love and respect it wherever it is. Goethe put it wonderfully in one of his best quatrains:
The mirror tells me: you are fair!
And you insist, this too shall time remove.
But all fine things come from the hand of God;
In me, in this glimpse, it is Him you love.

How to murder your wife, break every law in the code, rebel against the Church, and get away with it

You can if your bishop's name is Lynch, obviously. Read how the Catholic Church rewarded a murderer.

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