This fall, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will transport Harry Potter fans back to 1920s New York City, and in preparation for our trip back in time, Rowling will be filling in some major historical blanks.
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Rowling’s entire new series will be called “Magic in North America“.
An exclusive new video, shown above, introduces the new writing and its focus: a brand new American wizarding world. After releasing maps and descriptions of wizarding schools around the globe, J.K. Rowling will finally reveal details about the American wizarding school, Ilvermorny, as well as the history of magic in North America. If that information isnt enough to get you excited, check out the trailer promoting Magic in North America below Ilvermorny, Skinwalkers, the witch trials, and the magical Congress of the United States of America. It is considered the eighth story in the series, and tells of Harry Potter’s life as a husband and father working at the Ministry of Magic 18 years after the events of the books.
The first story is set to debut on Pottermore on Tuesday, March 8th at 9am ET.
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” also stars Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Carmen Ejogo, Jenn Murray, Faith Wood-Blagrove, and Colin Farrell.
A poster of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”. That tome will later become one of Harry Potter’s schoolbooks at Hogwarts.
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Pottermore, the digital publishing, e-commerce, entertainment and news company from J.K. Rowling, is the global digital publisher of Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. Sure, new stories will undoubtably make me miss Harry, Ron, and Hermoine more than ever (and Dobby, because I will never get over Dobby so long as I live and breathe), but I’m OK with that if it means I get a peek inside the magical world I so desperately want to be a part of.
