'Harry Potter' Author J.K. Rowling Sharing 12 New Potter Stories Counting Down to Christmas
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is doing her own 12 days of Christmas for her fans. It was announced through in the member newsletter from Harry Potter fan-site Pottermore that Rowling will be releasing 12 new stories telling about Potter and more on the wizarding world leading up to Christmas day.
The new stories will begin posting on Dec. 12 at 8:00 am ET, and will include "moments from Half-Blood Prince, shiny gold Galleons and even a new potion or two."
In other Rowling news, she is set to write her first screenplay for the upcoming movie Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them. The new Harry Potter series spinoff movies will be released as a trilogy with films releasing in 2016, 2018, 2020, with the potential for more.
"Jo has a vision for this extension of the franchise, and for the first time, she is writing the script for what she believes is at least a trilogy," Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara told Time Warner's investors conference (via the Los Angeles Times).
The story of Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them is about a character named Newt Scamander, who was a Hufflepuff hero that studied magical creatures and wrote a fictional textbook that bears the franchise's name.
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter have won multiple awards and sold more than 400 million copies.They have become the best-selling book series in history. Rowling had overall approval on the scripts for the Harry Potter movies and maintained creative control by serving as a producer on the final installment.
The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's fortune at £560 million, ranking her as the twelfth richest woman in the United Kingdom. Forbes ranked Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of 2007, and Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans. In October 2010, Rowling was named the "Most Influential Woman in Britain" by leading magazine editors. She has supported charities including Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Lumos (formerly the Children's High Level Group), and in politics supports the Labour Party and Better Together.