--- title: J.K. Rowling Wrote a Fairy Tale on Her Dress description: The Harry Potter author keeps the fairy tale manuscript hanging in her closet canonical: https://time.com/4851254/j-k-rowling-fairy-tale/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-10T14:59:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:14.123Z og:title: J.K. Rowling Wore a Secret Fairy Tale on a Dress og:description: The Harry Potter author keeps the manuscript hanging in her closet og:url: https://time.com/4851254/j-k-rowling-fairy-tale/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8be21e0010e3506d/6988b9c98fd2ee2b5b355bf2/jk-rowling.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3536 og:image:height: 1989 og:image:alt: "Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them" European Premiere - Red Carpet Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: J.K. 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Karwai Tang—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 10, 2017 2:59 PM UTC In an [interview](http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/world/amanpour-j-k-rowling-interview/index.html) with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Harry Potter author [J.K.Rowling](http://time.com/4812905/jk-rowling-misogyny-twitter-rant/?iid=sr-link1) revealed that she wrote a manuscript for a new fairy tale and while she decides whether or not to publish it, she’ll keep it hanging in her closet. Why her closet? Because she scribbled the story across a dress. “On my 50th, the theme of my 50th birthday, which I held at Halloween, even though that’s not really my birthday, was come as your own private nightmare,” [Rowling](http://time.com/4832926/jk-rowling-most-popular-tweets/?iid=sr-link9) told [CNN.](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/10/world/amanpour-j-k-rowling-interview/index.html) “And I went as a lost manuscript. And I wrote over a dress most of that book. So that book, I don’t know whether it will ever be published, but it’s actually hanging in a wardrobe currently.” [Rowling](http://time.com/4819719/j-k-rowling-stephen-king-donald-trump/?iid=sr-link3) has frequently spoken about her love of writing by hand, whether [spells for fans](http://www.today.com/popculture/j-k-rowling-shares-handwritten-expecto-patronum-spell-assault-survivor-t92321) or the first drafts of the _Harry Potter_ books. “Normally I do a first draft using pen and paper, and then do my first edit when I type it onto my computer,” [she told Amazon](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html?docId=563819), adding that she has “been known to write on all sorts of weird things” when she didn’t have a notepad handy. “The names of the [Hogwarts](http://time.com/4713730/jk-rowling-trump-kushner-slytherin/?iid=sr-link10) Houses were created on the back of an aeroplane sick bag,” she told Amazon, adding: “Yes, it was empty.” In that context, perhaps writing a story on a dress isn’t so odd after all. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4851254/j-k-rowling-fairy-tale/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4851254/j-k-rowling-fairy-tale/"},"headline":"Watch J.K. 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