JK Rowling answers the Harry Potter question she gets ‘asked at least once a week’
The question's been bugging fans for years and now they finally have the answer...
IT'S been nearly 10 years since the last Harry Potter book was released, but fans are still brimming with questions about the wizarding world.
So curious are avid Harry Potter heads, that JK Rowling set up her website Pottermore to answer them. But now the author has dedicated the first post of her blog on her new website JKRowling.com to answering one question that's been puzzling fans for years.
And it's one that she's "been asked at least once a week for nine years," about a scene in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Fans have been desperate to know why the Horcrux inside Harry wasn't destroyed when was bitten by the Basalisk.
According to Rowling: "A Horcrux can only be destroyed if its container is damaged beyond repair. Harry was healed by Fawkes. Had he died, the Horcrux would indeed have been destroyed.”
Clearing up this matter, JK then went on to answer a few questions about her latest output, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them; revealing that Newt didn't just Apparate all the way to New York because doing so over such a lengthy distance is risky - so it was better to get the boat.
Fans are also excited to hear that Dumbledore will make an appearance in the next Fantastic Beasts instalment.