Beware: This article and the Interview at Today has spoilers for the last book.
Confirming the rumored 8th Book of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling tells TODAY she will write an “encyclopedia” on the Harry Potter characters.
In her first tell-all interview since the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling said that she “probably will” publish a Potter encyclopedia, promising many more details about her beloved characters and the fate of the wizarding world beyond the few clues provided in the seventh book’s epilogue.
The encyclopedia would include back stories of characters she has already written but had to cut for the sake of narrative arc, as well as details about the characters who survive “Deathly Hallows,” characters who continue to live on in Rowling’s mind in a clearly defined magical world.
Hogwarts, for example, has a new headmaster (McGonagall), and Rowling said she can see Harry going back to give the “odd talk” on Defense Against the Dark Arts. That class, by the way, is now led by a permanent professor, since Voldemort’s death broke the jinx that didn’t allow a teacher to remain in the position for more than a year.
J.K. Rowling says that nothing in the entire process of the series was more difficult than writing the scene when Harry, accompanied by his lost loved ones — including his parents, James and Lily, and his godfather, Sirius — walks into the forest with the intent of sacrificing his life in the name of defeating Voldemort, adding it is her favorite passage in all seven books.
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