For those of you who are not on Twitter (or for some bizarre reason are not following J.K. Rowling), you may have been wondering why the internet suddenly exploded over our favorite magical author. Is a new Harry Potter book coming out? Have our dreams finally come true?
Not quite. But something almost as good: Around this time last year, J.K. Rowling announced that she would be expanding the Harry Potter universe with a film about Newt Scamander entitled “Fantastical Beasts and Where to Find Them.” Over the past year, Rowling has been working on writing the screenplay for this film, but she’s been rather quiet about it since the original announcement. Until now.
Early Monday morning, Rowling tweeted a cryptic anagram relating to the screenplay. By Tuesday afternoon, industrious fans had solved the riddle. But before the solution was found, fans all over Twitter were sharing their unsuccessful but often hilarious attempts.
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