`` I did seriously consider killing Ron , '' Rowling said . The author of the Harry Potter books has been accused by a former employee at her publishing company of sexual harassment and bullying in an explosive new book that claims she was fired for refusing to have sex How much freakier the latter Potters would have felt without good ol ' Ron around .
`` I did seriously consider killing Ron , '' Rowling said . It 's easy to imagine that he might have bit the dust relatively early . How much freakier the latter Potters would have felt without good ol ' Ron around .