Harry Potter is back — inscrutable, espoused, and going gray.
Award winning author, J.K. Rowling has given fans a glimpse of the grown-up boy wizard in an incipient story posted Tuesday on her Pottermore website.
It's the first update since "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was published back in 2007, but according to Rowling's spokesman Mark Hutchinson, there are "no plans" for an incipient Potter novel.
The incipient film is predicated on a 1,500-word story describing Harry (about to turn 34), attending the final of the Quidditch World Cup with his family and old friends Ron and Hermione.
Harry now has "threads of silver" in his hair and a cryptic cut on his cheekbone, cognate to his "top secret" work as an evil-battling Auror.
The story is indited in the style of a gossip column for the Daily Prophet by herald Rita Skeeter, a minor character in the novels.
Skeeter observes that Harry and friends are "no longer the fresh-faced teenagers they were in their heyday" and notionally theorizes about the state of Harry's espousement to Ginny Weasley.
There are withal updates on other characters, including Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood, as well as glimpses of an incipient generation of teenage wizards.
Rowling has long verbalized that "Deathly Hallows," would be the last Potter novel, but has engendered other Potter-cognate material, including spin-off story accumulation, "The Tales of Beedle the Bard."
