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March 10, 2016

NEW YORK -- J.K. Rowling has more magic on the way. The "Harry Potter" author is launching a series called "Magic in North America," a four-part backstory for this fall's film adaptation of the Potter prequel "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."...

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J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling

NEW YORK -- J.K. Rowling has more magic on the way.

The "Harry Potter" author is launching a series called "Magic in North America," a four-part backstory for this fall's film adaptation of the Potter prequel "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."

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Announced on Rowling's Web site, pottermore.com, "Magic in North America" will run in installments Tuesday through Friday on Pottermore.

According to the website, the new series will tell of the North American wizardry school Ilvermorny and "bring to light the history of this previously unexplored corner of the wizarding world in the runup to 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."'

Rowling has taken on several projects lately, from the stage production "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" to her detective novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

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