J.K. Rowling Posts Twitter Riddle For ‘Harry Potter’ Fans! Is Author Teasing ‘Fantastic Beasts’?
J.K. Rowling knows how to get her fans in a tizzy.
The "Harry Potter" author recently wrote a series of riddles on her Twitter page regarding a new project. Her devotees promptly went crazy trying to decode the clues.
The fun began when Rowling wrote an innocent tweet expressing how busy she is these days working on a variety of projects.
Very busy at the moment working on a novel, tweaking a screenplay and being involved in @lumos campaigns. Back when I've finished something!
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 5, 2014
Then the world-famous writer decided to tease fans with the potential of a riddle.
.@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
At last, Rowling went all in, posting a mysterious message for her Twitter followers to decode.
Cry, foe! Run amok! Fa awry! My wand won’t tolerate this nonsense.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 6, 2014
Fans quickly went on an analyzing spree, trying to uncover the meaning behind their beloved author's cryptic tweet.
.@jk_rowling's cryptic tweet,"Cry, foe! Run amok! Fa awry!" is clearly an anagram meant to warn us that her "fur work canoe may fray." Duh. — Tamsen Orme (@TamsenOrme) October 7, 2014
@TamsenOrme @jk_rowling Fa awry = For Harry in French so either it is a quote from Fluer or Gabrielle
— Kenneth Williams (@tygeron31) October 7, 2014
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING YOU CAN'T JUST HINT THAT HARRY POTTER IS RETURNING AND LEAVE US — Harry Potter (@HtothePotter) October 7, 2014
Rowling eventually stepped in to tell one fan, @VikiCarter_, that she was "Warmer" with her guess "Newt Scamander's History of New York Fauna: One town, my tale."
After another wave of online hysteria, Rowling posted a message to help explain her riddle.
#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
So, from that clue, it appears that the puzzle was about a screenplay Rowling is writing on Newt Scamander, the "magizoologist" who wrote Harry Potter's textbook "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," which the eponymous boy wizard read in the first novel of the Harry Potter series.
Well, now that the mystery of the anagram is all settled, fans can resume freaking out until the movie about Newt Scamander hits theatres in November 2016.