J.K. Rowling Says We'll Learn About the American Hogwarts in 'Fantastic Beasts' Movie
Occasionally we forget that J.K. Rowling is making a movie out of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and then something happens -- like Eddie Redmayne being cast as magizoologist Newt Scamander -- and we remember all over again that next year we’re returning to the wizarding world of Harry Potter.
To be fair, Fantastic Beasts will take place 70 years before the Harry Potter films (the script itself is inspired by a textbook of the same title that was required reading in the Care of Magical Creatures course at Hogwarts) and won’t take place in the U.K., but in New York.
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But! But! The exciting thing about being stateside is that Rowling revealed we’re going to learn about the U.S. school for young wizards and witches:
.@MrBanankartong That information will be revealed in due course.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2015
O.G. Harry Potter fans already know that there’s an American school -- in a 2000 interview, Rowling said Americans “have their own school...Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland,” and in Goblet of Fire, The American Salem Witches’ Institute is in attendance at the Quidditch World Cup -- but nothing else is known about the school.
Especially since Rowling clarified it actually isn’t Witches’ Institute:
.@jgrahamhutch The Salem Witches' Institute isn't a school, but a joke on the Women's Institute in the UK.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2015
She teased a little more information in subsequent tweets. Not enough to tell us anything concrete, but enough to send our imaginations into overdrive:
.@tannerfbowen No, but he's going to meet people who were educated at [name] in [not New York].
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2015
.@loonyloolaluna If I answer that fully it will reveal the location of the school, but you can take that as a yes!
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 7, 2015
.@loonyloolaluna Oh wait - did you mean the NAME is of American Indian origin? It isn't. The name is of immigrant origin.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 7, 2015
.@loonyloolaluna However, indigenous magic was important in the founding of the school. If I say which tribes, location is revealed.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 7, 2015
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Meanwhile, another Harry Potter fan tweeted Rowling asking why he never got a letter to Hogwarts. To which she replied:
.@m_abs All these people saying they never got their Hogwarts letter: you got the letter. You went to Hogwarts. We were all there together.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 7, 2015
“Of course it happened inside your head, but why on earth should that mean it wasn't real?” she then tweeted. And now we’re crying. Our childhoods!
Plus, find out what Harry Potter bombshell Draco Malfoy himself, Tom Felton, recently dropped on fans:
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