8 Ways JK Rowling Could Continue The Harry Potter Series

8. Harry Potter And The Misadventures Of His Progeny

Let€™s start with the most obvious one€”so obvious, it€™s almost like a failsafe Rowling set up for herself just in case she wanted to come back for more Potter (and who could blame her?). While the €˜Nineteen Years Later€™ epilogue was approximately nobody€™s favourite part of the series, it does opens up a whole host of possibilities for sequels. With Rowling€™s masterful skill for penning memorable characters, she managed to - in hardly five pages of epilogue - create the beginnings of a cast of characters almost as rich and as fully realised as Harry and company for the next generation of Hogwarts students (well, rich enough to have spawned several hundred fanfictions across the Internet, at least). From the solemn but unfortunately named Albus Severus Potter to the off-screen yet still somehow charming Teddy Lupin, there is undoubtedly a potential protagonist lurking somewhere on the misty King's Cross Platform of Deathly Hallows' conclusion, waiting in the wings for his or her chance at being the starring role in yet another generation-defining series of novels. Or, failing an epic, good-versus-evil saga for the ages, nobody would really refuse an entertaining spin-off novel divulging the details that Harry Potter never had the time for: how Hogwarts students circumvent the gender separation rules at the wizarding school and what the students actually use the Room of Requirement for, the particulars of the popularity hierarchy of Hogwarts (from the Quidditch heroes to the Arithmancy geeks, maybe?), or how Arthur Weasley reacted when he found out his granddaughter was dating a Malfoy. Although receiving generally lukewarm reviews, Rowling's 2012 adult fiction debut The Casual Vacancy proved that, even without magic wands and worlds hanging in the balance, she can write engaging teenagers. Add a little magic and throw up the stakes, and the result is bound to be entertaining. So I say, why the hell not? Coming to bookstores everywhere in 2017: Albus Potter and the Quest to the Girl's Dormitory.