JK Rowling Tweets Clues About New 'Harry Potter' Movie; Read Theories And Guesses About 'Fantastic Beasts' Film

JK Rowling Fantastic Beasts — J.K. Rowling tweeted an anagram that will reveal a hint about her new film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." Of course, fans will only get the hint if they solve the puzzle. Reuters/Olivia Harris

J.K. Rowling has dropped the first hints about the “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” movie. The story will take place in the Wizarding World from the "Harry Potter" franchise, but it won’t include the boy wizard. Instead, the film will focus on Newt Scamander, a Magizoologist (zoologist with a focus on magical creatures, obviously) in 1920s New York. The “Harry Potter” author tweeted that she was finishing the screenplay and decided to post some clues on Twitter. The tweets immediately excited her fans, but they also left everyone a bit confused.

.@peruseproject See, now I'm tempted to post a riddle or an anagram. Must resist temptation... must work...
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 5, 2014

Cry, foe! Run amok! Fa awry! My wand won’t tolerate this nonsense.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 6, 2014

Something to ponder while I'm away X
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 6, 2014,

“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” was a textbook for the students at Hogwarts, and Rowling published a version of the creature encyclopedia as a short novel. Fans are anxiously awaiting a return to the Wizarding World, even if Harry isn’t there. Needless to say, Rowling's Twitter followers had to jump on the clues to start deciphering immediately.

Theorists decided relatively quickly that "Newt Scamander" and “New York” were definitely answers in the "Fantastic Beasts" anagram.

the fact that the riddle contains "newt scamander" and "new york" cannot be a coincidence
— teddy lupin (@YerAWizardChris) October 6, 2014

That still leaves plenty of words to be deciphered. Rowling gave fans a few hints that they were headed in the right direction:

"Newt Scamander's History of New York Fauna: One town, my tale" Warmer.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 7, 2014

#helpfulhint The solution is the first sentence of a synopsis of Newt's story. It isn't part of the script, but sets the scene.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 7, 2014

Yet the anagram for the movie is still hard to crack. What Rowling indicated was the closest guess is still missing the letter 'r,' and it seems that most guesses are having trouble using all of the letters Rowling put in the initial anagram. Check out some Twitter users' theories:

@jk_rowling Newt Scamander's book he wrote while researching in New York?
— Toni-Marie Jarvis (@ToniJarvis) October 7, 2014

@jk_rowling "Newt Scamander of New York, nefariously snotty woman-hater" D:
— Rāch (@ovrcominshyness) October 7, 2014

@BeccaH88 One New Story of Naturalist Newt Scamander of New York but still have the letters: aymh
— Maelys (@MaelysN) October 6, 2014

@jk_rowling Newt Scamander History: Anatomy of New York’s Uneaten Fowl ?? pretty sure that's not it lol
— Amberlee Anne Chase (@Delta_Aria) October 7, 2014

"Newt Scamander, late for the mayor of New York, is on a sunny wut." Nearly makes sense :-P I bet I'm way off though.
— Josie (@Josephina_P) October 7, 2014

Fans are hoping Rowling will reveal the answer soon, but they still have a long wait for the movie. “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” is scheduled to be released in November 2016, and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2” director David Yates is slated to direct.

Do you think you can solve the anagram? Leave your best guess in the comments section below!

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