SO exciting!
Our beloved J.K. has just released brand new writing about a mysterious new School of Magic in North America called Ilvermorny, the North American School of Magic, on website Pottermore.com.
And while we’re team Hogwarts ‘til the very end, we’re loving JK’s expanded magical world.
Talking of Hogwarts, it’s not the only school that ‘sorts’ its students into houses, because now we can be be sorted into Ilvermorny houses on Pottermore.
The Ilvermorny Sorting Ceremony consists of questions and answers written by J.K. Rowling, placing those questioned into the following houses: Horned Serpent, Pukwudgie, Thunderbird and Wampus.
We don't know why, but we've a feeling we're Wampuses through and through.
The new writing, and the short video that accompanies it, provides a great background for the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, released 18 November, 2016. The film, which marks J.K. Rowling’s screenwriting debut, stars Eddie Redmayne as magizoologist Newt Scamander who arrives in New York in 1926.
The exciting tale starts in Ireland where an orphaned young girl who is a descendant of Hogwarts co-founder Salazar Slytherin, escapes her evil aunt and sets sail on the Mayflower. Landing in Massachusetts with little more than the clothes on her back and a stolen wand, she ventures out on her own, wandering in the wilderness until she encounters several mysterious creatures and discovers she is not the only magical person in the New World. But she will also have to overcome great challenges and face new dangers on her way to establishing what will become the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at the peak of Mount Greylock in Massachusetts.
Don’t even TELL us you’re not excited, because we’re afraid we won’t believe you.
