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When JK (also known Joanne Kathleen) as Rowling finished Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, the last book in the series, she actually ended up with 1,743 pages. Her publishers weren’t happy with the weight of the book and feared being sued by parents over their children suffering muscular fatigue from reading the tome. Of course, excepting Indian children since they are used to carrying far heavier weights, especially when it comes to their school bags. Even as the entire book is available on the Internet, what is not known are the significant sections that Rowling omitted in bringing the book down to an acceptable length.
Here are some examples of certain sections she had to excise:

Just as Voldemort is killed in the final installment, Harry is made aware of a far greater threat to the universe. His name is Arjun Singh and he is evilly scheming to reserve 80 percent of all seats at Hogwarts for OBCs, otherwise known as Other Backward Conjurers. This would be in addition to the quota already set aside for Scheduled Charmers as well as Spelling Tricksters, also known as SCs and STs. Unfortunately, Rowling was asked to delete Arjun Singh from the book since her editors felt not only would this reduce the length, Singh was also too scary a figure to subject children to.

In a section on a Quidditch tourney, she introduced a character called Greg Chappell. However, it was felt that he could easily be confused with the Golden Snitch, the mobile ball that is sneakily elusive. He was removed from the book before he could do any damage, unlike what he did for the Indian cricket team in being removed far too late.

Even though Harry is expected to end up married to Ginny by the end of the last book, Rowling wanted to have a fresh love interest for him, to add the element of jealousy, scheming, envy, bitching, etc., all important ingredients from the Mills & Boon books she based the Harry Potter series on. For this, she added a character called Shilpa Shetty. However, there were a couple of problems here. Since whenever Shetty was called any Mugglesian name, she immediately burst out crying and complained about racism in the wizard world. In addition, Rowling wanted Harry to plant multiple smooches upon her in one part of the book, but she found that whenever she wrote that paragraphs as bunch of knicker-clad loonies from the RSS (also known as the Retarded Shamans and Sorcerers) would seeming jump out of her wordprocessing software and on to the page, causing much disruption when they try to molest Hermione and Ron and, some of the loonier ones, Hagrid.

While these are just a few of the examples we are aware of from the secretly leaked galleys of the original manuscript by Rowling, there are other terrible figures that she created specifically for this book that had to be removed – the frightening Khan the Salman, who runs over broomstick riders, shoots Fawkes and pigwidgeons, slaps around Hermione and Professor Minerva McGonagall, all while losing his head and his hair.

Happy Harry reading.





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