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J K Rowling has admitted that she was "devastated" when she had to write the final Harry Potter book, The Deathly Hallows.
The fifth film, The Order of the Phoenix, is being released worldwide next week, while the seventh and final book will be in shops on July 21.
But the author told Jonathan Ross on his chat show, airing tonight, that she started sobbing when she wrote the final chapter in a hotel room on her own.
She said: "I was sobbing my heart out, I downed half a bottle of champagne from the mini bar in one and went home with mascara all over my face, that was really tough."
She denied, however, that the last word in the book was "scar" telling him: "Scar? It was so for ages, and now it's not. Scar is quite near the end, but it's not the last word."
Already over £1.5 million copies of the final book have been pre-ordered online ready for its release day.
