J.K. Rowling has given fans a glimpse of the grown-up boy wizard in a new story posted Tuesday on her Pottermore website.
It's the first update since "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was published in 2007, but Rowling spokesman Mark Hutchinson said there are "no plans" for a new Potter novel.
The 1,500-word story describes Harry, about to turn 34, attending the final of the Quidditch World Cup with his family and old friends Ron and Hermione.
Harry now has "threads of silver" in his hair and a mysterious cut on his cheekbone, related to his "top secret" work as an evil-battling Auror.
The story is written in the style of a gossip column for the Daily Prophet by reporter Rita Skeeter, a minor character in the novels.
It’s the first time we’ve checked in on Harry, Ron and Hermione since their epilogue at the end of “Deathly Hallows,” providing us with more insight into their post-Hogwarts lives than we ever expected to see.
However, two things of note: 1) The story is only available to Pottermore.com subscribers, and as of this writing, the site is on absolute overload; and 2) Rowling’s spokesperson tells TheBookSeller.com that the author has “no plans” to write further stories about older Harry.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t send your share of Howlers imploring Rowling to continue. And if she doesn’t continue, at least we have this new story to read over and over again — and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” in just a few short years.
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