Fans of the Harry Potter series, consider yourselves warned: TWO characters will die in the seventh and final installment of the novels. While there's no release date announced for the book yet, this information comes from a reliable sources:

J.K. Rowling.

The author wouldn't name names, but she did have the following to say:

"I've never been tempted to kill him (Harry) off before the end of book seven, because I always planned seven books and that's where I want to go," the author told Britain's Channel 4. "I can completely understand, however, the mentality of an author who thinks 'Well, I'm going to 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'."

Could Potter really perish? Or is Rowling just laying a few seeds of publicity a for the final novel already? No doubt it'll need it ...