The adaptations of the seven JK Rowling Harry Potter novels might be all done and dusted but with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them being made and a new Harry Potter short story on her website Pottermore, Harry Potter fans just cannot get enough of Mr Potter and the world in which he resides.

In the new short story we sees Harry, Ron and Hermione as adults at the Quidditch World Cup final, but there are so many other spin-off ideas us fans would love to see.

1. James Potter and his friends

How did the Marauder’s Map first come to be? How did James, Lupin, Peter and Sirius become so close that a little thing like one of them becoming a werewolf wasn’t enough to break their bond of friendship? How long did it take James and Lily to really fall for each other? And just how mean was James to Severus Snape?




2. He-who-shall-not-be-named

The night Voldermort killed Harry Potter’s parents is so important, the entire seven books which followed all seem to go back to it. It’s not just about Voldermort himself but his followers and those who tried to fight him. It would be great to see Lily and James but it would be brilliant to see what really took place between them, Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black.

It would also be a great opportunity to see Snape realise the consequences of his actions and head to Dumbledore.

3. Dumbledore’s youth

We learned a little about Dumbledore’s youth in the books but we didn’t really get to see much of it in the films. Imagine meeting Dumbledore’s family, finding out just what he was like as a boy and seeing what happened with Grindelwald.

4. Early Harry Potter (pre-aged-11)

This would be a far less magical spin-off but could be just as fun. After all, Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon are hilariously hideous characters and Harry’s cousin ‘Dudders’ would surely be even more demonic as a screaming toddler.

5. Secondary characters

JK Rowling gave us an epilogue which focused on the main characters. There was a mention of Professor Longbottom and a glimpse of Draco Malfoy sending his child off to school but other than that we don’t really know what happened to everyone else. Wouldn’t it be just spectacular to see what happened to the rest of the Weasley family? Perhaps a Christmas special…?

6. The children

We briefly met the children in the epilogue and the parallels between them and Harry, Ron and Hermione were evident, especially with the mention (in the books, not the films) of Lupin and Tonks’s child spending half the week round the Potter household – much like Sirius had done as a boy.

Voldermort may have been defeated but surely there’s still magic to be had for the children?