JK Rowling not ruling out another Harry Potter book

And she said that while ”where Harry’s story is concerned,I’m done,” she was considering a new story set in the same universe.

”I don’t want to go mechanically back into that world and pick up a load of odds and ends and glue them together and say,’Here we go,we can sell this,”’ Rowling said in an interview broadcast Wednesday. ”It would make a mockery of what those books were to me.

”But … if I did have a great idea for something else,I probably would do it. I am very averse to the prequel-sequel idea. A sidestep could maybe … well,we’ll see.”

Rowling also acknowledged that she wished she had had more time to work on a couple of the Potter novels she did not name them which had been written ”on the run.”

”And I read them,and I think ‘Oh God,maybe I’ll go back and do a director’s cut,”’ Rowling said. ”I don’t know.”

”The Casual Vacancy” is the story of a local election that exposes deep rivalries and dark secrets in a seemingly picture-perfect English village. It’s decidedly grown-up in theme and subject,touching on issues including drug addiction,poverty and self-harm.

Rowling who has spoken of her own financial struggles,anxiety and depression said she anticipated that some of her fans would not like the new book. But she is not worried.

”Harry Potter truly liberated me in the sense that there’s only one reason to write,for me if I genuinely have something I want to say,” she said.