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J K Rowling is set to release four new pieces of writing through her Pottermore website, telling the history of magic in North America.
The author will release the first new piece of writing tomorrow (8th March) at 2pm and the other three at the same time on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday respectively through her Pottermore website.
The stories set the scene for the forthcoming film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", starring Eddie Redmayne, coming in November from Warner Bros.
After Harry Potter’s world of Hogwarts centred on the world of British magic, a film trailer exclusively hosted on The Telegraph website today (7th March) revealed Rowling’s new stories would focus on the history of American magic.
The film voice over says: “The wizarding world you thought you knew is much larger than you imagined. History has many secrets. The official story is never the whole story. Look beyond the surface and you will find another world running parallel to our own. A secret world where magic is real… skin walkers, the witch trails and the congress of the United States of America.”
It continues: “These aren’t myths but the history of America is even more amazing than you could imagine. Everything you think you know is about to change.”
Little, Brown last month revealed the play script of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, to debut in London in July, will be released as a hardback book on 31st July priced £20.
The play, written by Jack Thorne, is set 19 years after the end of the seventh book in the Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. A synopsis, posted on Pottermore last October, said: "It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.”
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