Seven years after the final Harry Potter book was released, J.K. Rowling has finally written some new material about the famous wizard as an adult. 
 
 Rowling published the short story, which is in the form of an article by wizarding world gossip columnist Rita Skeeter, on the game website Pottermore. 
 
 Harry and his friends are now in their mid-30s and have families. The story is set during the Quidditch World Cup, the tournament for the magical game played on flying broomsticks. 
 
 Rowling has been writing other pieces on the tournament for Pottermore to coincide with the World Cup in Brazil. 
 
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 UPDATE, 9:54 a.m. ET The Pottermore site recovered by 9:30 a.m. ET and Rowling's Rita Skeeter post should be viewable by most site visitors. You may, however, need a free account to read the Daily Prophet article. As noted below, Skeeter, who is supposed to be reporting on the Quidditch finals, devotes this article to the arrival of Dumbledore's Army's original six members (along with countless other DA members) arriving at the tournament. Among them is a 34-year-old Harry Potter who has "a couple of threads of silver in the famous Auror's hair." 
 
 Harry Potter is back! Well, sort of. 
 
 Potter scribe J.K. Rowling made millions of wishes come true on Tuesday morning when she penned a new short Harry Potter tale and posted it on the Pottermore website. Too bad that act of kindness crashed the site. 
 
 The seven-book Harry Potter series, which recounts the early life of a downtrodden boy who finds out he's a wizard, has sold more than 400 million copies worldwide. 
 
 A new "Harry Potter" post by J.K. Rowling has apparently crashed the gaming web site. 
 
 While it's unclear how long the story was live before bringing down the Harry Potter-themed fantasy and game-playing site, we can intuit a bit from the story's URL, which notes that it was posted on July 8 and is titled something like "Dumbledore's Army Reunites." Harry Potter fans will recall that Potter enlists fellow classmates in "Dumbledore's Army" (DA) for wizard training when the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry temporarily stops training them in "Defense Against the Dark Arts." 
 
 According to Business Insider, which glimpsed the post before Pottermore succumbed, the story is written as a news post by fictional Harry Potter reporter Rita Skeeter and relates to a Quidditch game where former DA members are in attendance. The publication of this story today is likely no coincidence. Diagon Alley at the Universal Studios amusement park in Orlando, Florida, officially opens to the public on July 8. 
 
 This isn't Pottermore's first brush with trouble. The site was delayed and, on launch, was buggy and offered only a handful of the promised features. 
 
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 Bajillion-selling author J.K. Rowling has been hard at work in her Harry Potter universe this year, scripting the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but her best-known characters have remained on the shelf since the series concluded. Until last night, that is, when Rowling returned to Harry, Ron, and Hermione, now in their 30s, in a new story on her Pottermore website. 
 
 The piece is a report from gossip columnist Rita Skeeter about Dumbledore's army reuniting at the Quidditch World Cup final between Brazil and Bulgaria. Timely! 
 
 Harry's starting to go grey and has a mysterious new scar from his battles as an Auror. Ron has taken over his brothers' magical joke shop, and Hermione, forever the Most Likely to Succeed from her Hogwarts graduating class, is rising through the ranks at the Ministry of Magic while raising two kids. 
 
 The story also contains tantalizing spoilers for a few supporting characters, which only makes it more frustrating that Rowling has "no plans" to continue writing about grown-up Harry and friends. She will, however, deliver a report on the Quidditch World Cup next week, to coincide with the real-world conclusion of the biggest event in Muggle football. 
 
 Because that's totally as interesting as where Harry got another scar. Sure. 
 
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 Rowling writes story about 30-plus Harry Potter 
 
 08.07.14 | Caroline Carpenter and Charlotte Eyre 
 
 J K Rowling has written a new piece about a thirty-something Harry Potter and his friends at the final of the Quidditch World Cup 2014 for her website Pottermore.com. 
 
 The 1,500-word long piece was posted on the site today (8th July). 
 
 The story marks the first time Rowling has portrayed the characters as adults with careers and families following the epilogue of the final book in the Harry Potter series. 
 
 Rowling has written the article from the perspective of her character Rita Skeeter, infamous gossip columnist of the wizarding world’s newspaper, the Daily Prophet, whom Harry has encountered before in the books. Skeeter casts a bitchy eye over Harry Potter and his family and friends at the Quidditch world cup final. 
 
 In the article, Harry, now turning 34, and accompanied by his sons James and Albus, has “threads of silver” in his black hair, and also sports a mysterious new scar over his cheekbone, which Skeeter deduces has been inflicted as part of his top-secret career as an Auror, a specialist officer trained to apprehend evil wizards. Harry is also described as having distinctive round glasses that are “better suited to a style-deficient 12-year-old”. His wife, Ginny, is reporting on the tournament, leading Rita to question whether she really has the talent for it or whether being married to Harry has opened some doors. 
 
 
 
 The career of his friend Ron Weasley, whose “famous ginger hair appears to be thinning slightly”, is also examined by Skeeter. He co-manages his brother's joke emporium Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, while Hermione is now a rising star in the Ministry of Magic, as well as a mother to two children. “Does Hermione Granger prove that a witch can have it all? (No – look at her hair),” says Rita. 
 
 Other characters targeted by her poisonous pen include Neville Longbottom, who Rita suggests has a drink problem, and Teddy Lupin, Harry’s godson who is now 16 and described as “behaving in a way unbefitting of wizarding royalty since arriving on the VIP campsite”. 
 
 Despite the departure, Rowling's spokesperson said the author had "no plans" to write any further stories about the older Harry. 
 
 Rowling has been writing about Quidditch for Pottermore since March 2014. Her final Quidditch World Cup article for Pottermore will be published on 11th July and will be a report on the final between Brazil and Bulgaria, echoing the FIFA World Cup Final in Brazil two days later.
– Harry Potter fans, rejoice: JK Rowling has published a story on her Pottermore website set years after the teen wizard (spoiler alert) finally defeated Voldemort. You'll need a login to read it, BuzzFeed notes (and it was so popular it temporarily crashed the site, Mashable adds, though everything appears to be working now), or you can just read Business Insider's quick rundown of the 1,500-word story, which is written in the style of a gossip column by Potter character Rita Skeeter. It reveals, among other things, that Harry is now in his mid-30s and a famous auror (meaning he fights bad wizards), his wife Ginny is covering the Quidditch World Cup, Ron Weasley was also an auror but now co-manages his twin brothers' joke store, and Hermione Granger is the deputy head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement (and has two kids, Gawker notes; Harry and Ginny also have at least two sons). Itching for more? Sucks to be you: Rowling has "no plans" to write any other stories about the older Harry, her spokesperson tells The Bookseller.