Who is this second Harry Potter and why are we only hearing about this now?

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HARRY Potter is quite literally the gift that keeps on giving – as author JK Rowling has proven once again.

Rowling has a habit of keeping interest and intrigue in the magical wizarding world alive by eking out new facts to keep fans engaged – a bit like that time she announced Dumbledore was gay.

Warner Brothers 3 JK Rowling has confirmed there was more than one Harry Potter

Well she’s at it again and in a new post on Pottermore the writer has revealed that there were two Harry Potters.

She wrote: “Henry Potter (Harry to his intimates), was a direct descendant of Hardwin and Iolanthe, and served on the Wizengamot from 1913 – 1921.

“Henry caused a minor stir when he publicly condemned then Minister for Magic, Archer Evermonde, who had forbidden the magical community to help Muggles waging the First World War.

Warner Brothers 3 The Harry Potter author explained that Harry’s great-grandad was Henry/Harry Potter

“His outspokenness on the behalf of the Muggle community was also a strong contributing factor in the family’s exclusion from the ‘Sacred Twenty-Eight’.”

Henry/Harry (A.K.A. the original) then had a son Fleamont who married Euphemia.

Fleamont and Euphemia then gave birth to a little boy called James.

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Rowling wrote: “[They] lived long enough to see James marry a Muggle-born girl called Lily Evans, but not to meet their grandson, Harry.

“Dragon pox carried them off within days of each other, due to their advanced age, and James Potter then inherited Ignotus Peverell’s Invisibility Cloak.”

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