The author was in New York to promote Lumos, her new charity to help children in orphanages.
“Never say never again” might be the informal Scottish national motto.
It was the winking title of the 1983 James Bond movie that brought Sean Connery back for one more spin as the title character 12 years after Diamonds are Forever.
And now in an interview with Matt Lauer on Today, J.K. Rowling teases, “I have always said never say never” about an eighth Harry Potter book. She adds, "I've always said I'm not going to say 'I definitely won't' because — because I don't see why I should say that. You know, it's my world and I might choose to step back into it. I'm stepping back into that world, writing the script for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
But before you get to excited, she continued with, "But I think Harry Potter 8, as in what happened next to Harry, Ron and Hermione — I don't think that's going to happen."