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J.K. Rowling: 'Never say never' to more 'Potter'
Will she or won’t she?

Although J.K. Rowling has said that the story of Harry Potter ends with the seventh book, she’s reserving the right to change her mind and extend the story.

The 45-year-old author told the enormous crowd gathered for the world premiere of “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” in London Thursday that she has no immediate plans to resurrect Potter's tale, but also that one should “never say never.”


Said Rowling, “It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.”

Indeed, the final “Harry Potter” premiere was a bittersweet moment for the author, as she told BBC News that the franchise has changed her personally.

“You know honestly, if someone told me this is coming, I might’ve said, I can’t do that. I’ve really come out of my shell,” she said. “I was not someone who was a natural public speaker and and I was not very comfortable with this sort of thing. It’s just as well that I got introduced to it by degrees.”

As for what’s next, Rowling notes that she does have a stash of non-“Potter” material waiting in the wings.

“I think I always felt I didn’t want to publish again until the last film was out. I’ve been writing hard ever since I finished writing 'Hallows,' but I will publish again,” she says. “In a sense it’s a beginning for me as well as an end.”

And while we wait to see if Rowling's new beginning will actually include more about the boy wizard, there's always Pottermore.

COMMENT: I would really want to J.K to extend the story. It would be fantastic. There is always Pottermore, a site that you can read the books in a different way but I would like to more books to come out.