Just when the world thought they had seen the last of the boy wizard, Harry Potter is back! J.K. Rowling has written a new story that features Harry Potter and the gang on her website Pottermore. Fans all over are excited at the possibility that this could be the first glimpse of a Harry Potter new book in the works.
The story, which runs for 1,500 is written in the form of a gossip column by Rita Skeeter for the newspaper, the Daily Prophet.
Harry is now turning 34, and he is watching the final match of the Quidditch World Cup with friends and family. He is described as having "threads of silver" in his hair, and sporting a mysterious cut on his cheekbone, which is related to his "top secret" job as an auror.
Skeeter notes that Harry still wears "the distinctive round glasses that some might say are better suited to a style-deficient 12-year-old." Harry's wife Ginny Potter, is now a journalist, covering the Quidditch World Cup for the Daily Prophet.
Ron Weasley, on the other hand is described as having hair that "appears to be thinning slightly." The story also reveals that Ron now "co-manages the highly successful wizarding joke emporium Weasley's Wizard Wheezes." Meanwhile, Ron's wife Hermione, whom Skeeter describes as "the femme fatale of the group," is now the Deputy Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.
The gossip columnists further reflects that the group are "no longer the fresh-faced teenagers they were in their heyday," and even muses on the state of Harry and Ginny's marriage. The relatively small glimpse given in this scene are intriguing details that could very well be the plot of a new book on Harry Potter and his friends. Especially since we are also given updates on the other characters in the story. Neville Longbottom is now a Herbology professor at Hogwarts, while his wife Hannah Abbott is a healer. Luna Lovegood meanwhile is married to tthe grandson of a "celebrated Magizoologist," and the couple have twin sons.
So is it true that there is a Harry Potter new book on the way? Sadly, Rowling's spokesman Mark Hutchinson said there are "no plans" for a new Potter novel. But who knows? Stranger things have happened yet, especially in the Harry Potter world.
