While denying she had the completed manuscript for Deathly Hallows tucked away for years, Rowling did say there was a small truth to it. In the DVD extra features for Deathly Hollows Pt. 2 Rowling stated, “I always knew—and this was from really early on—that I was working toward the point where Hagrid carried Harry, alive but supposedly dead, out of the forest, always. I knew we were always working towards a final battle at Hogwarts, I knew that Harry would walk to his death, I planned the ghosts—for want of a better word—coming back, that they would walk with him into the forest, we would all believe he was walking to his death, and he would emerge in Hagrid’s arms.”