Author JK Rowling has said two characters will die in the seventh and final Harry Potter book, but she has been careful not to reveal which ones.

I have never been tempted to kill him off before the final because I’ve always planned seven books, and I want to finish on seven books,”Rowling said Monday on British TV Show, Richard and Judy.

“I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks, `Well, I’m gonna kill them off because that means there can be no non-author-written sequels. So it will end with me, and after I’m dead and gone they won’t be able to bring back the character’.”

Rowling declined to commit herself about Harry, saying she doesn’t want to receive hate mail.

“The last book is not finished. But I’m well into it now. I wrote the final chapter in something like 1990, so I’ve known exactly how the series is going to end,”she said.

Some characters might die, but the blockbuster movie franchise lives on. Warner Bros. Pictures has announced that the fifth installment will be released in U.S. theaters, including Imax screens, on July 13, 2007

Rowling is the richest woman in Britain wealthier than even the queen with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine last year at more than $1 billion.

Not bad work from writing a few books eh?