J.K. Rowling clarifies why Harry Potter 9 will never happen

Shahrukh Yousafzai
Nov 7 · 2 min read

“The Eighth Story” is likely the last story in Harry Potter’s course of events, implying that Harry Potter 9 won’t happen.

Talking at the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the Reviled Kid on Sunday, J.K. Rowling said she doesn’t hope to keep moving the story “forward” by making a Harry Potter Book 9. The occasions in The Reviled Kid wrote by her, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany are the extent that she at any point imagined the arrangement going, she says.

“I think we truly have now told, as far as pushing the story ahead, the story that I, in the back of my brain, needed to tell,” she said. “I believe it’s very self-evident, in the seventh book, in the epilogue, that Albus is the character I’m most intrigued by. What’s more, I figure we’ve done the story equity. So I think pushing it on to Harry’s grandkids truly would be a significant critical move, and I’m not keen on doing that.”

The Reviled Youngster gets right where the Epilog in 2007’s Harry Potter and the Creepy Blesses left off, with Albus Severus Potter and his prospective companions taking off to Hogwarts. The story rapidly bounces ahead a couple of years to a point where Albus and his darling companion Scorpius cause some genuine issue.

Rowling made the remarks to Assortment, and in a similar report, it’s uncovered that the creator has seen the show an astounding multiple times. Accepting she implies Parts 1 and 2, that means she’s gone through 80 hours watching her child in front of an audience.

Even though the writer isn’t composing a Harry Potter 9, she’s still profoundly dug in the Wizarding Scene. This November fans will get the chance to see the Rowling-wrote Phenomenal Monsters: The Wrongdoings of Grindelwald. Three additional films are in the pipeline, with the threequel expected to land in November 2020.

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