JK Rowling Wants To Write One More Harry Potter Book

By Stuart Heritage on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 11:30am12 Comments


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JK Rowling Harry Potter Eighth Book Time NewEver since Harry Potter was conceived, JK Rowling has insisted that his story was only seven books long – except that now it's over she's starting to wonder if it could stretch to eight.

By writing the final Harry Potter book at some point over the last 12 months, JK Rowling scored herself a runner-up spot on the Time Person of The Year List – she would have come first if it wasn't for that bloody Vladimir Putin – and that seems to have made her wonder out loud about writing another Harry Potter book. Don't get too excited, though, because the new Harry Potter book is at least a decade away – coming after the final Harry Potter movie, the opening of the Harry Potter theme park, the Harry Potter On Ice tour and the vastly unsuccessful Harry Potter Sings Julio Iglesias CD of Spanish language seduction ballads planned for March 2014.

If 2007 was the year that JK Rowling put an end to Harry Potter – finally publishing the last Harry Potter book Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – then 2008 will be the year that JK Rowling forgets about Harry Potter completely and moves on with her life, only limiting her mentions of Harry Potter to the times that she opens her mouth, writes stuff down or thinks about anything at all.

And it'll be a busy year for JK Rowling, because she's got several balls to juggle. There's her first adult novel to write, and some kind of 'political fairy tale' as well – plus Rowling needs to find adequate time to strut around her country-sized mansion in a dress made out of knitted rubies eating money sandwiches and pooing coins – but mainly she has to keep alluding to another Harry Potter book like some sort of awful tease.

After coming third in the Time Person Of The Year List – don't get jealous, you won it last year – JK Rowling has decided to announce her vague intentions to possibly write another Harry Potter book eventually if she feels like it and enough people want to read it. Speaking to Time, Rowling said:

"There have been times since finishing, weak moments, when I've said: 'Yeah, all right' to the eighth novel. If, and it's a big if, I ever write an eighth book about the (wizarding) world, I doubt that Harry would be the central character. I feel I've already told his story. But these are big ifs. Let's give it 10 years."

A Harry Potter book that isn't about Harry Potter? Surely not. So who could this new Harry Potter book be about? Not Dobby or Snape or Dumbledore or the owl or one of the Weasley twins or Voldemort because they're all dead. By our estimations, that means the new book will either be about the married adventures of Hermione and Ron, some sort of ghastly Son Of Harry Potter next-generation affair or a thousand-page book all about the zany adventures of that big moving painting of Dawn French from the third Harry Potter film.

You know what this means though – it means that everyone who signed that petition for more Harry Potter books last summer has been heard. We have a voice! Maybe now that we've convinced JK Rowling to write another Harry Potter book we can all gang up and try to convince another billionaire to earn more multi-million windfalls by cynically returning to franchises they promised us were dead because nothing they've done since has even been remotely successful in comparison. People power! Woo!

Read more:

Rowling 'may pen eighth Harry book' – Press Association

12 Comments »

  • sahas says:

    Well, it could be about Dumbledore u know.. About how he defeated the dark wizard Grindelvald in 1945, and how the wizarding community had covered it up as the atom bombs in Japan ;)

  • cathy says:

    Left to much out. What happen to the school ?Who is head master now?
    What did Harry, Ron, Hermine, Ginny do??? You have nineteen years left out. What kind of jobs do they get where are they living? Does Harry go and live in his godfather’s house. What happen to his aunt, and uncle, and cousin?????? It is like you have left the book in the middle of the story. How do Harry and Ginny get together, and Ron and Hermine get together???? We need one more book to finish the story.

  • Fantum_Dook says:

    The next book will be “Harry Potter and the Empty Bank Account”. J.K. Rowling has spent her fortune on Scientology and needs more.

  • lilyas says:

    i thimk it will be about albus, harry’s son and how it’s like for him in school. We can find out other things aswell like who is the head master now and some other things.

  • David says:

    I think that J.K. Rowling should write one more harry potter book about what happened in the nineteen years left out in the last chapter with Harry, Ron, and Hermione. I also think that she should after that start a whole new series about Harry’S, Ron’s, and Hermione’s children. Come on J.K. Rowling dont let that dumn unauthorised Harry Potter book get you down KEEP WRITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • ben says:

    i think tht the eigths book sould be about the next generasion

  • ben says:

    she sould do a hole new sequal like somone has sujested it would be mint if she did

  • cody lee wood says:

    Ya i think it should be about albus , and somehow he could come upon some source of evil like a voldemort son (who dosent know his father is voldemort) , and include more dragons some how ending in an epic duel between him and harry potter new son albus i think this should be splitted between a all new series of five or six more books . and close to the end there should be some water and ice spirits havent seen much of those up to now… or as long as she writes at least one more book ill be satisfied but ive been sayin that since her first book came out

  • Wilson Of Canada says:

    Book 8 should be about a Muggle cult that used cloning to bring back Voldemort.

  • Summer Renee ((: says:

    I honestly have no idea. I mean, it would be amazing to do a whole other generation of books, but when that’s finished, people are still gonna want more, because bottom line is, Harry Potter is immensely engulfing. After a while, Harry will loose all spark. Like Warriors by Erin Hunter, she is now facing her fourth generation of books. And nearly all the old characters have died. Same with Harry. If you go on and on, people are gonna have to go, and eventually she’d loose the whole basic concept. And Harry, he’d probably die eventually, I mean, he can’t live forever.
    But yeah, I agree on the whole ‘We missed 19 years worth of stuff. Like, what did they do for a living? What happened to Luna, George, Percy? We only got a bit of Teddy ((Lupin’s kid)). She left so much out! And yeah. I totally wanna know who the knew headmister(tress) is.
    And I totaally calculated and like…Voledemort must have been at least 66yrs old. Dumbledoor wayy older. And Lucius too…whoa…thye said he was forty two!

  • Zach says:

    I think she should forget about Harry and do a prequal series about the orginal order of the phenix and voldemorts rise to power

  • anonymous says:

    I think she should write about the year after the deferat of voldemort and about hermione and rons romance and what there life is like after.

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