JK Rowling releases trailer for new series 'Magic in North America'

[TailoredGuilts 353]

 

Speech in the trailer: 

“The wizarding world you though you knew
Is much larger than you imagined
History has many secrets,
The official story is never the whole story

Look beyond the surface
and you will find another world,
running parallel to our own
a secret world where magic… is real

Ilvermorny, 
skin walkers, 
the witch trials,
& the Magical Congress of the United States of America

These aren’t myths
the history of America,
is more amazing than you could ever imagine
everything you think you know
is about to change…”

“Magic in North America”,
a series of original stories by writer JK Rowling

read them all exclusively on: https://www.pottermore.com/

Just finished making these gifs from the video... the animation is beautiful! Love this so much







if you like them feel free to reblog them on your tumblr from the original gifset post here:
http://daqueensof.tumblr.com/post/140643154891/the-wizarding-world-you-though-you-knew-is-much

AND they even threw in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them promo....."in November, you're invited to explore a whole new era of the wizarding world." 

apparently more info about everything is is going to be released tomorrow on Pottermore!

 

If anyone is confused or has any questions about all of this, I have written a detailed explaination of everything here:
 

Spoiler

In the universe of HP... "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is a famous and classic book/encyclopedia of magical creatures written by a british Magic Zoologist and wizard, Newt Sacamander. Newt became extremely famous wizard for being the sole person to discover and study hundreds of species of magical creatures all over the world.. It's considered required reading for all Hogwarts students.

JK Rowling decided to write a screenplay adapting this book that exists in the HP world (and she even published a condensed version of it for charity in 2000) and make it a film trilogy (screenplay by: JK Rowling herself).

In the universe of HP... "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is a famous and classic book/encyclopedia of magical creatures written by a british Magic Zoologist and wizard, Newt Sacamander. Newt became extremely famous wizard for being the sole person to discover and study hundreds of species of magical creatures all over the world.. It's considered required reading for all Hogwarts students.

JK Rowling decided to write a screenplay adapting this book that exists in the HP world (and she even published a condensed version of it for charity in 2000) and make it a film trilogy (screenplay by: JK Rowling herself).

(Here's the entire Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them JK Rowling released to read in FULL and free PDF format): 

http://d2.d.yun.hjfile.cn/files/201405/%E6%B2%AA%E6%B1%9F%E8%82%B2%E5%84%BF%E7%BD%91_J.K._Rowling_-_Fantastic_Beasts_and_Where_to_Find_Them_20140530113147938_784.pdf?_upd=true

 

(2016 film poster):

The FBWTFT film trilogy (from what we know so far) is about Newt Scamander venturing to New York City, USA in 1920's to continue his unprecedented world wide journey of discovering unknown magical creatures to capture and study. He keeps all the hundreds of creatures and their habitats he's found so far in his magical briefcase

Somehow the briefcase is accidentally opened and releases all of the creatures upon the city of NYC and now Newt must quickly find and re-capture the escaped creatures before they wreak havoc on city and expose the wizarding world to muggles or "nomag" (american word for non-magical people). Newt is also facing legal turmoil with the Magical Congress of the United States of America (american wizarding goverment) and could potentially be a criminal if he isn't able to catch them all in time. The trilogy will be introducing what the American wizarding world is like. 

JK Rowling has decided to expand the HP universe even further past her Fantastic Beasts films by writing a new collection of short stories about the history of Magic in North America and release them on Pottermore (JK Rowling's own mega site for potter fans), which is what this trailer was the official announcement for. 

The most important thing to understand the new movies, stories, books, etc.... Is that everything relates back to the fact that JK Rowling wants to expand the reader's frame of reference / knowledge map of the wizarding world from the UK to the US. Almost nothing is known about the US wizarding world, the entire HP books might have 2 sentences about it.

It's a brilliant way to breathe new life into the series without harming the other series. 

 

[Yanko 9,860]

GGD ITS ****ING SHITTY EMBDEING

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO FIX THIS SITE MY ****ING GOD 

[CallMe 577]

YAAAAAAS IM ACTUALLY SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS 

[Rock Jock 993]

oh wow

Very good news for grown ups HP fans

[AdAstra 2,649]

When is saw the eagle fly over I wanted to stand up and chant USA! USA!

[Sizzily 14,555]

I'm not ready! 

[TailoredGuilts 353]

5 minutes ago, Yanko said:

GGD ITS ****ING SHITTY EMBDEING

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO FIX THIS SITE MY ****ING GOD 

fixed it with the new video posted by the Fastastic Beasts Movie YT page

[Zsolti 2,688]

this looks soooo forced

[Killa 17,952]

I'm a mess. A part of me wants this so bad, i have hope for it for 84 years, in fact. But some things need to die and you raise a sepulture for it's adulation, and that's it. She better deliver.

Ofc the saga is expandable but i like Potter because of the Brittish flavour. But let's see, i do believe she's a good writer

[Judas Oyster 1,917]

I'm confused

Magic In North America = book?

Beast = movie?

Magic in North America is the series that are going to inspire the new movies?

And, if it's a book, the animation shown is just to make the book for interesting?

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

Don't really understand it, but looks good whatever it is

[nikola 4,342]

i love the trailer........ and i hope its good.......i can see so many harry potter related movies in the future

[littlepotter 75,414]

OH MY GODDD THIS LOOKS UNREAL WOW

[Teri Hatcher 2,053]

OMG it looks like an OUAT type of show I'm SO here for it!

[Jed 7,716]

57 minutes ago, Judas Oyster said:

I'm confused

Magic In North America = book?

Beast = movie?

Magic in North America is the series that are going to inspire the new movies?

And, if it's a book, the animation shown is just to make the book for interesting?

Yes yes no and yes