"Launch Day interview aboard the Hogwarts Express," Bloomsbury Press, July 8, 2000

Interesting facts and notes

The interview was meant to have taken place with the background noise of the moving train. However, other than during the first section, the train was on a siding between Kings' Cross Station and Finsbury Park in North London, waiting for permission to cross over to the Didcot line which runs out of Paddington Station while the interview was being filmed.
-- information from private source

Memorable lines

"The funny thing is that I did always think that, if it ever did get published, it was a book for obsessives..... And I did think if people liked it they would probably like it obsessively.... but I thought that it would be an obsessive few – I never guessed it would be an obsessive many."

"The most important thing when you are creating a fantasy world is to set the rules.... Because without it – you have no conflict; you have no tension; you have no drama – if you have given your characters limitless powers and no barriers. You have to decide first of all most importantly what they can’t do, way before you decide what they can do."

"I was so grateful that they were publishing me, I would have called myself Enid Snodgrass had they so required."