--- title: J.K. Rowling New Harry Potter Stories description: In defense of J.K. Rowling and the story that lived canonical: https://time.com/3932769/jk-rowling-harry-potter/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-24T16:42:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:23:09.004Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Leave J.K. Rowling Alone! og:description: In defense of J.K. Rowling and the story that lived og:url: https://time.com/3932769/jk-rowling-harry-potter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d81da3731623f55/6988580fcd1bba1dea6fbf46/jk-rowling-harry-potter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Daniel Radcliffe, J.K Rowling, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Leave J.K. Rowling Alone! twitter:description: In defense of J.K. 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The_ by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Jun 24, 2015 4:42 PM UTC by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Jun 24, 2015 4:42 PM UTC J.K. Rowling has recently received some criticism for releasing new stories about Harry Potter and the Wizarding World on her Twitter account and her fan site Pottermore. Some argue that the extra information about the series illustrates its [shortcomings](http://time.com/3637589/jk-rowling-harry-potter-news/) as a whole. Others say it takes away from readers’ [imaginations](http://time.com/3924640/jk-rowling-harry-potter-let-go/) for the story. I get it. Maybe we don’t need to be privy to her plans for [Draco Malfoy’s 35th birthday](https://twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/606792239281504256). But many are forgetting that Rowling promised us just this when she announced [Pottermore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIApkyunK9Y&w=560&h=315) in 2011. --- > “” --- At first many fans weren’t so [keen](http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2089575-4,00.html) on the idea. Her biggest, most exciting revelation on the site didn’t come until 2014, when she posted a new story written as a gossip column from Rita Skeeter in the _Daily Prophet_ straight from the Quidditch World Cup. We learned about a new scar for Harry, Ron’s thinning hair, and Luna Lovegood’s children. Fans freaked out, and the site crashed. I printed the story out and read it on my lunch break, a smile on my face as if I were 11 again, reading the books and drinking cream soda that I pretended was Butterbeer. Some wonder if Rowling’s recent increase in new content could have something to do with the impending release of the film spinoff _Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them_, for which Rowling is writing the screenplay and has [tweeted](http://time.com/3479345/jk-rowling-riddle/) about regularly. Even if it is, who cares? She’s been knee-deep in the Wizarding World since she created it, now probably more since working on the screenplay, so why not let her have fun with it and bring us along for the ride? Where she’s succeeded flawlessly, intentionally or not, is in giving fans like me who grew up with Harry something we can relate to as we get older. Now, as our Facebook accounts are flooded with baby pictures, the members of Dumbledore’s Army have their own children. We learn that Aunt Petunia didn’t want Lily Potter to be a bridesmaid at her wedding, right as many of us are dealing with wedding drama of our own. Rowling tweets to confirm [LGBT wizards](http://time.com/3640133/lgbt-students-hogwarts/) are welcome at Hogwarts just as the transgender movement takes center stage. She reveals that Hermione didn’t take her husband Ron’s last name right when some of us are considering doing the same. We learn that Rowling never understood the readers who [romanticized Draco Malfoy](http://time.com/3644311/jk-rowling-harry-potter-draco-malfoy/), something we can associate with now that many of us, too, have dated the bad guys. Of course we might have laughed at some of this or found it interesting at the time the books were released, but the fact that it arrives years later, like an unexpected letter delivered by owl, gives us more time to process and ponder the meaning Rowling put behind so many of her characters and themes. John Green, the author of _The Fault In Our Stars_, has been quite vocal on leaving _Fault_ where he left it in the book. Posting to [Tumblr](http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/77777583873/there-is-a-post-going-around-tumblr-with-tens-of) in 2014, he wrote: “I have never said anything about what might happen before or after what’s depicted in the book. I finished writing it, for better or for worse, and it now belongs to you.” I respect Green’s decision. But Rowling hasn’t revealed imperative, plot-changing information since the release of the seventh novel, _Deathly Hallows_. Instead, she has given us the kind of thoughtful details that make the series that much more meaningful to her biggest fans. At the premiere for the final film in the series, Rowling, alongside a teary Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe, said what all _Harry Potter_ fans wanted to hear: “The stories we love best do live in us forever. Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” And that’s why we all loved Hogwarts so much, isn’t it? Just as it was Harry’s place to escape the Dursleys, to find magic, to meet the friends who’d become his family, to discover his own power—both magical and mental—it was also ours to grow up with, to imagine, to question, to find our own selves. And even now, 18 years after the first book hit the shelves, Harry Potter isn’t going away. The story still belongs to us. She’s revealing this information _for_ us. And with it, she reels us back into the depths of our imaginations as she always did with each new book release. The fact that it’s causing a bit of trouble only means one thing: Mischief Managed. ### Harry Potter Illustrated Edition Illustrations  Harry Potter Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  Hermione Granger Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  Ron Weasley Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  Draco Malfoy Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  Rubeus Hagrid Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  Hogwarts Grand Hall Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  Dragon Alley Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  Hagrid Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  Harry Potter Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  An owl Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.  The Golden Snitch Jim Kay—Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ## Transcript Harry Potter has scores of fans across the world, the only downside in our American eyes is that most of the cool stuff J. K. Rowling penned happens across the pond. She needs to sort out her priorities. But now, good old America, land of the free, could also be considered home of the wizard. The wizard. Oh yeah. We're serious. Here's some background: Rowling wrote the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in 2001. The book, when mentioned in the Harry Potter series, was written by a fictional character named Newt Scamander. To sum it up, Rowling wrote a book about a book, that a character in her book wrote. Now, there's a movie coming out with the same title and it will follow Schamander and his adventures in New York's secret community of witches and wizards. Collecting the information he used to write the book, Potter would ultimately read in class 70 years later, IMDB. com says. Turn to page 394. This led to a Twitter user asking Rowling if her character Scamander was going to visit a school in New York. She replied no, but he's going to meet people who were educated at name in not New York. Educated, out of school, in America, we have wizards too. Woo. Rowling isn't giving the name of the school, saying if she did, it would give away it's location. But did hint that the name was of immigrant origin and that indigenous magic was important in the founding of the school. Rowling has been known to be as cryptic as Tom Riddle's diary. In October 2014, she tweeted out some nonsense that people on Reddit somehow deciphered to mean Harry returns. Won't say any details now. A week off. No comment. It turns out she was really just teasing us about this upcoming Scamander movie and she's still teasing us it seems. Teasing us as hard as Harry's Uncle Vernon was when he withheld those Hogwarts acceptance letters. Entertainment Weekly took a wand waive at some locations, suggesting the school could be New Orleans, Roanoke New England the Southwest. We'll be on the lookout for more cryptic tweets. Or heck, we'd even take a movie trailer at this point. The movie is due out in 2016. This is choking us up like that time Harry swallowed the snitch. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3932769/jk-rowling-harry-potter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3932769/jk-rowling-harry-potter/"},"headline":"Leave J.K. Rowling Alone!","datePublished":"2015-06-24T16:42:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-05T08:23:09.004Z","description":"In defense of J.K. 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