Yesterday, J.K. Rowling announced that there would be a spin-off to the Harry Potter series. It will be a film based on an earlier spin-off book, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. This new endeavour comes after two failed attempts at non-Harry Potter material. Her first experiment, The Casual Vacancy, was panned by critics. Rowling then wrote a detective novel under a pseudonym which was rejected by publishers and then sold poorly until it was leaked she had written the book.
Many may say that Rowling
is only revisiting Harry Potter due to the lack of success she has had in her
other projects. In true SpontaneousWriting style, though, here are 6 outlandish
reasons which would explain the turn of events: