Harry Potter inspires any number of enduring images: of millions of ecstatic fans lined up around the world in the dead of a warm July midnight, dressed in striped red-and-gold scarves and black robes' of thousands of pages flipped through hundreds of times, containing ten years worth of laughter, tears and indulgent fondness. But more than anything of one generation entirely transformed. One more thing is for certain: nothing on this side of the millennium has had an impact as widespread and as profound as the Harry Potterphenomenon, and it's hard to imagine it happening again. If youre a Harry Potter fan, there can be little doubt that the past three Potter-less years have left us all feeling a bit empty, and more than a bit sad once you glance over to your bookshelf where the seven beloved volumes lie waiting for you to pick them up and peruse them once more. And if youve felt like this, you may have resorted to making bargains with the Potter-Gods in your mind: "Please, just one more book. Just one more movie. Something. Anything!" Of course, J.K. Rowling has stated numerous times that Harrys story is over; and it might just be for the better, because nothing ruins a treasured series more than a horrible, drawn-out sequel. Nevertheless, its fun to entertain possibilities of continuation, no matter how unlikely, especially with the announcement of the new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie late last year. And with a world that has a history and characters as richly developed as the Potter universe, as Ms. Rowling herself put it, Never say never. So, without further ado, here are eight different ways that the Harry Potter series could be continued, from prequels to sequels and every absurd thing in between.