J.K. Rowling Offers a Fascinating History of Magic in North America in 4 New Stories
The upcoming film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will open up the Wizarding World of Harry Potter even more as it will take audiences on their first adventure to America and the wizards that reside there. Before that movie is released, though, J.K. Rowling will be releasing four new stories on Pottermore that will be published under the title "History of Magic in North America."
These stories will explore some fascinating history that will include topics such as The wizard school of the United States, which is called Ilvermorny; the Skin-walkers, which is a Native American legend of shapeshifting people; the Salem witch trials, a formative event for the country’s national magical identity; and the US version of the Ministry of Magic, which is the Magical Congress of the United States of America.
These are all exciting things to learn about, but I'm most interested in learning how the Skin-walkers and Salem witch trials fit into the Wizarding World that Rowling has created. Just the ideas behind those would make a whole new series of awesome novels that I hope Rowling writes one day.
The first “History of Magic in North America” story will be released tomorrow, March 8th, at 9 a.m., and we will get a new story every day until Friday, March 11th. You can watch a trailer that was released for these new stories below thanks to EW .
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be released in theaters on November 18th.
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— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 7, 2016