10 objects on which J.K. Rowling maybe wrote Harry Potter
By Samantha Puc
WASHINGTON – APRIL 05: British author J.K. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, points to the place on her forehead where her title character has a scar while reading ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ during the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House April 5, 2010 in Washington, DC. About 30,000 people are expected to attend attended the 132-year-old tradition of rolling colored eggs down the South Lawn of the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Consider: a dress.
J.K. Rowling did an interview with CNN earlier this month wherein she talked about her children’s charity, Lumos. During that interview with Christiane Amanpour, Rowling revealed that she wrote the manuscript for a fairytale across the dress for her 50th birthday party. The event took place on Halloween 2015 (although her birthday is July 31) and the theme was “come as your own private nightmare.”
First, that’s… a really cool theme for a party. Second, Rowling’s idea for her costume was pretty inspired.
Apparently, Rowling’s private nightmare is a lost manuscript. This inspired her to scribble all over her party dress the contents of a story only attendees at the party got to see, and surely no one took the time to read the entire thing. (Unless someone did. Would J.K. Rowling stand still long enough for that to happen? I have so many questions.)
Rowling said the dress now hangs in her closet, which is frankly bonkers. “So that book,” she told Amanpour, “I don’t know whether it will ever be published, but it’s actually hanging in a wardrobe currently.”
What does the dress say? Does it contain Marauders’ secrets, tales of Harry’s children, secret information about the wizarding world? Does it go deeper into that Christmas when Sirius gifted baby Harry with a practice broom? Is it even connected to Harry Potter? Maybe not. Maybe it’s something completely different, but the thought of Rowling scrawling secret tales from the Potter-verse on a dress is too interesting to ignore.