Millions of Harry Potter fans have a reason to celebrate, after best - selling author J.K. Rowling hinted of plans to add an eighth book to the boy wizard franchise, but it is not likely for another 10 years..

Ever since Harry Potter was conceived, J.K. Rowling has insisted that his story was only seven books long - except that now it’s over she’s starting to wonder if it could stretch to eight..

By writing the final Harry Potter book at some point over the last 12 months, J.K. Rowling scored herself a runner - up spot on the Time Person of The Year List - she would have come first if it wasn’t for that bloody Vladimir Putin - and that seems to have made her wonder out loud about writing another Harry Potter book.. Don’t get too excited, though, because the new Harry Potter book is at least a decade away - coming after the final Harry Potter movie, the opening of the Harry Potter theme park, the Harry Potter On Ice tour and the vastly unsuccessful Harry Potter Sings Julio Iglesias CD of Spanish language seduction ballads planned for March 2014..

If 2007 was the year that J.K. Rowling put an end to Harry Potter - finally publishing the last Harry Potter book Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - then 2008 will be the year that J.K. Rowling forgets about Harry Potter completely and moves on with her life, only limiting her mentions of Harry Potter to the Times that she opens her mouth, writes stuff down or thinks about anything at all..

And it’ll be a busy year for J.K. Rowling, because she’s got several balls to juggle.. There’s her first adult novel to write, and some kind of ‘ political fairy tale ‘ as well - plus Rowling needs to find adequate time to strut around her country - sized mansion in a dress made out of knitted rubies eating money sandwiches and pooing coins - but mainly she has to keep alluding to another Harry Potter book like some sort of awful tease..

After coming third in the Time Person Of The Year List - don’t get jealous, you won it last year - J.K. Rowling has decided to announce her vague intentions to possibly write another Harry Potter book eventually if she feels like it and enough people want to read it.. Speaking to Time, Rowling said..

” There have been times since finishing, weak moments, when I’ve said: ‘ Yeah, all right ‘ to the eighth novel.. If, and it’s a big if, I ever write an eighth book about the ( wizarding ) world, I doubt that Harry would be the central character.. I feel I’ve already told his story.. But these are big if’s.. Let’s give it 10 years..”

A Harry Potter book that isn’t about Harry Potter? Surely not.. So who could this new Harry Potter book be about? Well as we mentioned at the end of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Review, we believe the eight book will be along the lines of Potter in the Potter’s Never Say Die..

You know what this means though - it means that everyone who signed that petition for more Harry Potter books last summer has been heard.. We have a voice! Maybe now that we’ve convinced J.K. Rowling to write another, well let’s just call it a, Potter book, and see if we are correct, we can all gang up and try to convince another billionaire to earn more multi - million windfalls by cynically returning to franchises they promised us were dead because nothing they’ve done since has even been remotely successful in comparison.. People power! Woo!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is not the final departure of the boy wizard from our lives, for J.K. Rowling has revealed what Harry and his Hogwarts friends did next after leaving the school for witches and wizards..

The Edinburgh - based author has answered a few questions about Harry and his companions..

Describing the post - Hogwarts lives of the characters, Rowling revealed that Harry and Hermione Granger, both work at the Ministry of Magic, where Harry joins the auror department, and Hermoine is employed in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement..

Ron Weasley assists George at the joke shop, while his sister Ginny Weasley becomes a professional Quidditch player, and also a writer for the Daily Prophet..

Rowling also disclosed that Harry and his nemesis, Lord Voldemort, are related, though distantly, through the Peverell family..

She also said that Draco Malfoy marries Astoria Greengrass, while the unlucky Neville Longbottom ties the knot with Hannah Abbott, who becomes owner of The Leaky Cauldron..

The author said that she felt a ” massive sense of release ” to be capable of answering any question from infatuated fans without letting something slip, now that the books are completed..

” I do have it all worked out in my mind because I couldn’t stop myself doing that..”

She called her time with Harry ” one of the longest relationships of my adult life..”