LONDON, England – After seven long years, the well-loved fictional wizard boy, Harry Potter, made his first appearance on Monday a new short story by author J.K. Rowling.
In an article on Rowling’s “Pottermore” website, a story which is supposedly written by a gossip columnist reporter Rita Skeeter, a character in the novel who works for Daily Prophet, was published. It features a nearly 34-year-old Harry with grey hairs, and his friends reunite for a tournament of the broomstick-riding game quidditch.
Ron Weasley, Harry’s redheaded best friend, is described to be thinning on top. Ron’s wife, Hermione, and Harry’s wife Ginny, were all featured in the 1,500-word story.
Meanwhile, author JK Rowling gives a teaser to her millions of fans when she writes that Harry now has a new scar on his cheek, which goes with the lightning-shaped one on his forehead.
“About to turn 34, there are a couple of threads of silver in the famous Auror’s black hair, but he continues to wear the distinctive round glasses that some might say are better suited to a style-deficient twelve-year-old,” the story reads.
Further hint of things to come is presented when the story asks whether the “chosen one” is “embroiled in fresh mysteries that will one day explode upon us all, plunging us into a new age of terror and mayhem.”
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The article supposedly written by Skeeter is part of a series about the “2014 Quidditch Cup,” which most believes to be a nod to the football World Cup in Brazil. The articles are set to appear on Pottermore, a website focusing on the boy wizard that launched in 2011.
Reports said that the final article will be published on Friday, and will now feature Ginny Potter, who is now a journalist covering the cup final battle, between Brazil and Bulgaria.
After Harry Potter, where author Rowling has sold more than 450 million copies of books and seen them made into a string of hit films, Rowling has been keeping busy since the seventh and final novel in the series, which was published in 2007.
Under the name Robert Galbraith, she was able to publish her first adult novel, “The Casual Vacancy”, which had mixed reviews in 2012, and has also released two big-selling crime novels.
Last September, Rowling made an announcement that she will make her screenwriting debut by penning a series of spin-off films set in the Potter world, starting with “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”.