JK Rowling Tweets 16th Anniversary of Battle of Hogwarts: Harry Potter Author has New Film Franchise "Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them"
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling remembered the Hogwarts battle last week, she marks it as the 16th anniversary.
Rowling is also on another magical winning streak with the upcoming film franchise "Fantastic Beasts and Where to find Them," and the planned HBO book-to-TV series adaptation of "The Casual Vacancy."
But let us first allow Rowling to remember her beloved characters via Twitter. "It's the 16th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. I'm having a moment's silence over my keyboard. I hated killing some of those people," Rowling wrote on Twitter. For a person who hardly uses Twitter, these morsels that Rowling puts out could drive any hardcore Harry Potter fan bonkers. Rowling's tweets were re-tweeted 83,000 times.
Anyway, in the famous battle, Rowling killed off Lupin, Tonks, Fred Weasley, Colin Creevey, Lavender Brown, Bellatrix Lestrange and Severus Snape, just to name a few, Entertainment Weekly reported. The Battle at Hogwarts, in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," marked the final battle between Harry Potter, along with his friends, Dumbledore's army, the Hogwarts professors and its students versus Voldemort and the Death-eaters. The most unlikely of characters died, but the most unlikely characters also became heroes, a la Neville Longbottom.
The Scholastic Publishing released the final novel in the Harry Potter series in July 2007.
Rowling even tweeted and interacted with fan questions. One user asked the author jokingly, if Rowling could take back a death which one would it be? Rowling responded: "That really made me laugh. But who should we re-animate?" In another response to another user about why sometimes people die in books, Rowling replied: "Well, Graham Greene [famous British author and playwright] said that writers need a chip of ice in their heart. That's how we make our readers' hearts bleed."
The magic continues. It was announced almost two month ago that Warner Bros. would make three films of the "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." The three films will not be prequels, just stories in the Harry Potter universe.
Rowling later confirmed that the main character, Newt Scamander, will be a "magizoologist." But do not expect Harry Potter and the gang to appear, the story is expected to take place 70 years before the arrival of Harry Potter and his magic band.
Rowling revealed that when she first started creating the back story for Newt, she did not intend on writing a script, but she did end up finishing her first rough draft in just twelve days.
Expelliarmus! Consider yourself ready for the next new Rowling chapters.