There's even more big news for Harry Potter fans today.
Author J.K. Rowling just revealed during an interview with BBC Radio 2 that she's in the midst of writing another children's book. She visited the show to promote Career of Evil, her newest tome under the Roberth Galbraith pen name, but naturally the conversation swayed to novels of the more, shall we say, Harry Potter variety.
Rowling told the station that while she enjoys writing her Cormoran Strike series as Galbraith, she has quite the lineup of her more traditional novels. "I have so many ideas," she gushed. "I have written part of a children's book that I really love, so there will be another children's book. And I have ideas for other adult books...I sometimes worry I'll die before I've written them all out. That's my mid-life crisis."
Of course, ever secretive, Rowling did not reveal the topic of said children's book or whether it would be based in Potter-world like her upcoming West End play. But a fan can dream, right? Regardless of whether her new novel will let us get another glimpse of Harry and the gang, we've been daydreaming about revisiting the J.K. Rowling material we know and love all day. Here are 10 ideas we think could spell bookshelf box office gold.
1. The early life of Hagrid. We're pretty sure we could read an entire series about this lovable oaf and not get bored. Plus think of all the animal mishaps just waiting to happen.
2. Harry Potter from the perspective of the Death Eaters. Evil wizards can be fun, too.
3. Zombies. Hear us out, now. Magic has been done, vampires have been done (and done and done), so it could be a great time to get into another side of the otherworldly.
4. A hippogriff love story. We can hear the awwws now.
5. A Christmas tale. Nothing gets us in the seasonal mood more than envisioning a snowy romp through Hogsmeade, so why not just do the full monty.
6. A mystery novel...but for kids, duh. We're thinking that good ol' private eye Cormoran Strike could take on something a little more Nancy Drew and a little less addict-heiress-commits-suicide.
7. YA romance. Say what you will about Rowling being above this genre, but just think how good The Fault In Our Stars would have been if she had written it.
8. The children's feminist manifesto. Hermoine Granger was basically the hero of our childhood, so why not let Rowling inspire a whole new crop of girls?
9. Dobby! If anyone deserves their own dedicated book, it's the most loyal house elf of all time.
10. A dedicated Quidditch book. We don't know about you, but we would be first in line to read a drama about a high-stakes match between the Chudley Cannons and the Puddlemere United.