This piece of news is going to break a lot of die-hard Harry Potter fans' hearts, but author J.K. Rowling does not want to get their hopes up for nothing so she clarified once and for all that an eighth Harry Potter book is definitely out of the question.
"I think Harry Potter 8, as in what happened next to Harry, Ron and Hermione - I don't think that's going to happen," she told USA Today.
Rowling has some pretty persistent fans and she said that even if she gave a resounding "no" to the possibility of an eighth Harry Potter book, she is pretty sure that "someone's cutting this on YouTube to make it as though I gave you hope."
The author did say that she is currently busy with writing projects, and even though it's related to magic, her current works have more to do about Hogwarts' past than the futures of Harry, Ron, and Hermione, since she is writing the script of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The Harry Potter spin-off is headed to the big screen on November 2016 and will share the adventures and scientific exploits of Newt Scamander, the magical zoologist who wrote the popular Hogwarts textbook, also named Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
According to Rowling, Scamander's adventures are all set 70 years even before Harry Potter and his friends first stepped foot into Hogwarts, so most of the characters fans have come to know and love will not be making an appearance in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
"I'm afraid I haven't been writing the next Harry Potter," she said. "I have always said never say... well, not never say never. I've always said I'm not going to say 'I definitely won't' because I don't see why I should say that. You know, it's my world and I might choose to step back into it. And in a way, I am stepping back into it."
After the seven Harry Potter novels and right in the middle of the eight Harry Potter films production, Rowling picked up her pen again and began writing books for adult readers. Her first novel after Harry Potter was The Casual Vacancy, which she released in 2012 and is now a television series.
She then took up the pseudonym Robert Galbraith and wrote crime fiction novels. So far, she has produced two - The Cuckoo's Calling (2013) and The Silkworm (2014).
