Raise your wands if you sobbed when you finished the final book in the Harry Potter series (and when you turned 11 and didn’t get your Hogwarts letter… too soon?).
Well, collegiettes, we have awesome news for you — our favorite wizards are baaack! Back like He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named in The Goblet of Fire! This morning, J.K. Rowling released a brand-new short story featuring Harry, his family and his friends 17 years after the defeat of the Dark Lord.
The story is in the form of a gossip column, written by none other than Rita Skeeter. She’s snarky, to say the least: “About to turn 34, there are a couple of threads of silver in the famous Auror’s black hair, but he continues to wear the distinctive round glasses that some might say are better suited to a style-deficient twelve-year-old.”
According to The Telegraph, Rowling's piece is a “thinly veiled attack” on gossip magazines.
“Rowling is no fan of the tabloids, appearing before the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics in 2011 to claim that a reporter had once tried to contact her by putting a note into her five-year-old daughter’s schoolbag,” the article said.
Whether or not Rowling had ulterior motives in publishing the story, it’s still great to get an update on the characters. And by great, we mean magical!
Spoiler alert:
Ginny is a reporter, Ron has left the Ministry of Magic to run Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes and Hermione is deputy head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Meanwhile, Neville has been teaching Herbology at Hogwarts, and his wife, Hannah, is rumored to be applying for a position as Matron. Luna has married Rolf Scamander and is still “delightfully eccentric.”
Find out all the details (including some about Percy, Bill, and Harry and Ron's kids) on Pottermore!
Is this exactly the Harry Potter update you've been craving, or are you still hungry for more? Do you think Rowling should have left the characters as-is? Tell us in the comments!