{"id":44937,"date":"2014-10-08T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=44937"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:28:10","slug":"did-j-k-rowling-just-announce-a-new-harry-potter-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/did-j-k-rowling-just-announce-a-new-harry-potter-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Did J.K. Rowling just announce a new Harry Potter novel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J.K. Rowling sent twitter into a spin last night with a series of cryptic tweets that hinted at her writing a new novel, then hinting that it might be a new Harry Potter novel, followed by millions of fans hinting that they were very very excited.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It started when Rowling sent this tweet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44938\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rowling-tweet-1.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"Rowling Tweet 1\" width=\"468\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which led inevitably to tweets like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44939\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rowling-tweet-2.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"Rowling Tweet 2\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>We believe OMFG is an anagram for Oh My (it) Feels Good.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And tweets like that led to tweets like this from J.K. Rowling:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44940\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rowling-tweet-3.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"Rowling Tweet 3\" width=\"468\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which led to Jo not working at all, but posting this riddle:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44941\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rowling-tweet-4.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"Rowling Tweet 4\" width=\"468\" height=\"115\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which led to some very quick fans coming up with this message:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44942\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rowling-tweet-5.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"Rowling Tweet 5\" width=\"468\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which led to many of us doing this:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44943\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/tumblr_inline_mwmskd4u791s8pyhu.gif?w=468\" alt=\"tumblr_inline_mwmskd4U791s8pyhu\" width=\"468\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So where does that leave us?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A long way from confirmed, but it looks more and more likely that we&#8217;ll be seeing a new Harry Potter novel, sooner rather than later. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yep, we&#8217;re calling it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kind of.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But for now, have you seen the new editions of Harry Potter? They&#8217;re very pretty. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-harry-potter-children-s-editions-by-j-k-rowling\/series3318.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to check them out<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-harry-potter-children-s-editions-by-j-k-rowling\/series3318.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44946\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/harry-potter.jpg?w=468\" alt=\"Harry Potter\" width=\"468\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.K. Rowling sent twitter into a spin last night with a series of cryptic tweets that hinted at her writing a new novel, then hinting that it might be a new Harry Potter novel, followed by millions of fans hinting that they were very very excited. It started when Rowling sent this tweet: Which led inevitably to tweets like this: We believe OMFG is an anagram for Oh My (it) Feels Good. And tweets like that led to tweets like this from J.K. Rowling: Which led to Jo not working at all, but posting this riddle: Which led to some very quick fans coming up with this message: Which led to many of us doing this: So where does that leave us? A long way from confirmed, but it looks more and more likely that we&#8217;ll be seeing a new Harry Potter novel, sooner rather than later. Yep, we&#8217;re calling it. Kind of. But for now, have you seen the new editions of Harry Potter? They&#8217;re very pretty. Click here to check them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[2355,2657],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56209,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44937\/revisions\/56209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}