No. This is not some Time-Turner trick. Harry Potter was not his own great-grandfather. That would have been, well, WEIRD. Read J.K. Rowling’s explanation below for more about Harry’s ancestor Henry Potter: Henry Potter (Harry to his intimates) was a direct descendant of Hardwin and Iolanthe and served on the Wizengamot from 1913 – 1921. This…
James Sirius Potter (or James Potter II), Harry and Ginny Potter’s firstborn son, boarded the Hogwarts Express at King’s Cross station today. This makes James two years older than his younger brother, Albus Severus Potter, who we know from the Deathly Hallows epilogue, “Nineteen Years Later”, will board the Express to Hogwarts in 2017. We know this,…
J.K. Rowling could have written anything set in the wizarding world, and Harry Potter fans would’ve gladly donned their House robes and would’ve been waiting in line at midnight to read or see it. However, Jo (and to some extent, Warner Bros.) chose to make the first post-Potter wizarding-world franchise about the author of a…