Rowling: 'I'll mourn Potter books'

Harry Potter author JK Rowling says she will miss writing the series when she finishes work on the final novel.

She says she will go through a mourning period and will then have to think of something else to write.

However, she said writing the final book was "fun in a way it hasn't been before" because "the pressure is off".

She made the comment when she read extracts from the most recent Potter novel at a charity event at New York's Radio City Music Hall, which was organised by author Stephen King. Money was being raised for Doctors Without Borders and The Haven Foundation, which helps artists who are unable to support themselves after falling ill.

JK Rowling has said two characters will perish in the final Harry Potter novel, but told her New York audience she was not looking forward to writing their deaths.