Student B

JK Rowling is the ……….. of 15 books, including the

…………Harry Potter novels, The Casual Vacancy and, as
Robert Galbraith, ……….. ……….. ……….. . Her first
screenplay, for Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, is
currently …………………………..; she is also collaborating
on a ……………, Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, which
sees Harry as a grown-up ……………. and opens in
………….next June. Lauren Laverne was lead singer in
Kenickie, and is a TV and radio broadcaster, currently hosting
the BBC 6 …………………………... She is also co-founder
and broadcast director of the ………………… the Pool.
Rowling and Laverne ………….. on a grey day in east
London, Laverne on a flit between her radio show and an
awards ceremony, Rowling cabbing it from ……….. ………..
(she doesn’t drive). It’s the first time they’ve met, though
they’ve liked each other on …………., where Rowling has
nearly six million followers and Laverne ……………….
Rowling wants to meet Laverne because, she says, “she’s
smart, funny, my kind of woman” (and a name to impress her
22-year-old daughter, Jess). Laverne, meanwhile, is
…………… in the Harry Potter years, with eight- and five-
year-old ………….. The two women hit it off straight away,
Laverne with that DJ’s knack of ……….. ….. ………., while
Rowling – ……………………….. in front of the camera –
laughs and gets louder and more than keeps up. She shares a
phone pic of her ………………. son, and recalls the only
photoshoot she really enjoyed (the one where Annie Leibovitz
scrubbed off all her makeup and shot her holding a burning
book, “and I love fire”). They could have gone on, but here’s
what we got...