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JK Rowling’s New Story depicts Native American wizards
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has published her first expansion of the magical universe she created in the bestselling fantasy book series she began 20 years ago: History of Magic in North America, a series of short stories telling the magical history of America.
The first part that launched today, titled Fourteenth Century – Seventeenth Century, reads like an extract from an academic tome and tells the story of how wizards communicated with North America before it was colonized by non-magical humans, or ‘No-Maj’, a term revealed by Rowling recently as an American slang equivalent to the British term ‘Muggle’ used in the Harry Potter books.
Magical travel meant that even far-flung wizarding communities were in contact with each other from the Middle Ages.
Rowling writes that “the Native American magical community and those of Europe and Africa had known about each other long before the immigration of European No-Majs in the seventeenth century” and that the proportion of magic folk in the population is consistent all over the world. Rowling then focuses on Native American magic, writing that wizards in Native American tribes were “accepted and even lauded” by their people, for their skills in healing and hunting.
The series of stories coming this week are connected to the upcoming cinematic expansion of the Harry Potter universe. The first film, which stars Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as Scamander will be released worldwide in November 2016.