J.K. Rowling Apologizes For Killing Fred Weasley In Harry Potter And The Deathly Hollows

Shawn Rice

May 4, 2015

J.K. Rowling

When J.K. Rowling concluded her Harry Potter series, she left it with a bloodbath. Many favorite characters were killed off. One of those included Fred Weasley who died during the Battle of Hogwarts. After years since fans read about his death, J.K. Rowling is apologizing for it.

“Today I would just like to say: I’m really sorry about Fred,” she tweeted about the ginger’s demise in 2007’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. “*Bows head in acceptance of your reasonable ire*”

Rowling chose May 2 to express her regret because that date marks the 17th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, she explained Saturday on Twitter. “I thought I might apologise for one death per anniversary,” she wrote. “Fred was the worst for me, so I started with him.” Apology appreciated, Rowling, but what about a retraction? See the author’s tweets below.

Next up, she’ll have her choice of Lupin, Tonks, perhaps Snape, Lavender Brown, or around a thousand other innocent people. Who do you most want Rowling to apologize for killing off? Of course, this is all in good fun but which death most affected you?

In related news, Rowling welcomed the newest member of the royal family, princess Charlotte, with a little disappointment.


Nymphadora, of course, is more commonly known as Tonks in the Wizarding World. In the fifth book of the Harry Potter series, Tonks’ character asked her would-be-husband Remus Lupin not to call her by her first name, referring to her mother as a “fool” for naming her Nymphadora.

Which character would you have liked the new princess to have been named after?

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