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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. ## Video: The Harry Potter Saga Continues In J.K. Rowling's New Play [Watch (HLS stream): The Harry Potter Saga Continues In J.K. Rowling's New Play](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/8ESDAPTG.m3u8) (1:10)  _Published 2015-10-23. An 'eighth Harry Potter story' is coming from J.K. Rowling in the form of a stage play. Cue that Potter fan freakout._ by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Nov 3, 2015 4:55 PM UTC  J.K. Rowling at the U.S. launch of her non-profit organization Lumos at The Empire State Building in New York City on April 9, 2015. J.K. Rowling at the U.S. launch of her non-profit organization Lumos at The Empire State Building in New York City on April 9, 2015.Cindy Ord—Getty Images by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Nov 3, 2015 4:55 PM UTC J.K. Rowling told BBC Radio 2 that she’s working on a new children’s book and she has many more stories to tell. In an [interview](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p036z28f) to promote her latest Cormoran Strike crime novel, which is written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the _Harry Potter_ author said she has plans to write as J.K. Rowling again. “I’m not going to give you an absolute date because things are busy enough,” she said, citing the [_Harry Potter and the Cursed Child_](http://time.com/4084851/j-k-rowlings-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-play-eighth-book/) play she’s working on and the [_Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them_ ](http://time.com/4000164/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-filming-harry-potter-spinoff/)screenplay she’s written, which is a movie spinoff of the books. “But I will definitely write more novels as J.K. Rowling. Novels in the plural, I have so many ideas. I have an idea for a children’s book. I have written part of a children’s book that I really love so I am definitely going to finish that.” Rowling’s latest crime novel, [_Career of Evil_](http://time.com/4067478/robert-galbraith-jk-rowling/), is the third in her Galbraith series, which she told BBC Radio she started working on while she was finishing Harry Potter. She says it’s the only book she’s ever written that gave her nightmares to research. In a statement, Scholastic, the publisher of Rowling’s blockbuster Harry Potter series in the U.S., expressed its excitement: “We have no doubt that she will, once again, inspire even more young readers with her brilliant storytelling.” “I genuinely sometimes worry I’ll die before I’ve written them all out,” Rowling told BBC of her many ideas. “That’s my midlife crisis, that I will leave this earth without having written them all.” If only she could get her hands on the sorcerer’s stone. J.K. Rowling Is Writing More Novels ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4098208/jk-rowling-harry-potter-new-novels/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4098208/jk-rowling-harry-potter-new-novels/"},"headline":"J.K. 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