JK ROWLING wept last night as she attended the premiere of the eighth and final film of her hugely successful Harry Potter series.
Wearing in a pale green dress with pink flowers and accompanied by her husband Neil Murray, the Scots author joined the cast of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two on the red carpet in London's West End.
She thanked the actors for "the amazing things they did for my favourite characters" before turning to the thousands of screaming fans who greeted her.
She said: "Thank you for queuing up for the books for all those years, for camping out in a wet Trafalgar Square."
The author then pleaded with the fans who were chanting "thank you" to her to stop, saying: "No, no, I'm already crying."
Many of the fans had been camping since Monday to secure the best possible view of the author and cast.
First to arrive on the soggy red carpet, which stretched the mile from Trafalgar Square to Leicester Square in central London, was Rupert Grint.
Despite torrential rain earlier, the sun shone down as stars of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II spent more than three hours signing autographs.
Daniel Radcliffe, who has played the boy wizard since he was 11, told fans the films would be with them "for the rest of their lives".
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Radcliffe, who had earlier flown in from New York, said that Harry's story would never end.
"Each and every person, not just here in this square but around the world who have watched these films for the last 10 years, they will always carry the films with them for the rest of their lives," he told fans.
Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, thanked the screaming fans saying making the films had been "the best part of my life".
Grint and co-star Emma Watson spent hours on the red carpet signing autographs.
And Clemence Poesy, who plays Fleur Delacour, said: "I'm overwhelmed by it all."
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