Did J.K Rowling went back from her word about writing more stories about Harry Potter? This was the idea every other fan of the British author thought when she tweeted a very cryptic message on October 6.
The tweet read, "Cry, foe! Run amok! Fa awry! My wand won't tolerate this nonsense."
She later challenged her Twitter followers to think about the message while she takes a sabbatical.
The message was initially seen as gibberish, but a fan quickly pointed out that Rowling purportedly had majority of the people fooled because she disguised the true message in an anagrammed statement. MoviePilot published what the Reddit fan discovered after shuffling the letters, which read to, "Harry returns! Won't say any details now. A week off. No comment."
Rowling's silence about her latest work was sparked by a fan's earlier response to a post about her "being busy" with a new novel, campaigns for her children's charity and a screenplay. The Independent reported that the screenplay is the highly-anticipated "Harry Potter" spinoff, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," which would feature Newt Scamander, a fictional author and a zoologist of magical creatures, and his many adventures. Scamander's adventures were immortalized as a textbook. The said textbook was used in a required course in Harry Potter's fictional school of Hogwarts.
However, MTV noted that Rowling took a rather short break following the cryptic tweet, as she was later back online and posted two more clues about the cryptic message she wrote the day before.
She wrote on October 7, "Newt Scamander's History of New York Fauna: One town, my tale" Warmer.
When a fan asked Rowling whether her Scamander tweet is the beginning of a new "Harry Potter" universe story, she confirmed that his deduction is close, and replied in another tweet, which read, "#helpfulhint The solution is the first sentence of a synopsis of Newt's story. It isn't part of the script, but sets the scene."
Although fans might be upset about the possibility of Rowling closing the chapter of the Boy Who Lived, the actors who have played the iconic trio Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, have all moved on from the cinematic franchise. Rupert Grint, who plays Harry Potter's best friend in the film series, once told Daily Mirror, "I loved doing the Potter films but it's so nice to try different characters and explore different things. It's been weird since Potter finished, adapting to life now. It was such a huge part of us. For now I am just enjoying being free. It was a bubble world, and quite suffocating. A bit like a school, really. Now I'm out I still feel there are things I want to do."
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