J K Rowling guilty about killing Florean in ‘Harry Potter’ series

“I seemed to have him kidnapped and killed for no good reason. He is not the first wizard whom Voldemort murdered because he knew too much (or too little), but he is the only one I feel guilty about, because it was all my fault,” she said.

Florean ran an ice cream parlour where he meets Harry in the third novel, ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ and gives him free ice creams.

He is then mentioned in the sixth book, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’. Rowling explains that his role became redundant when other characters became more helpful.

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