She also opened up about her differing Harry Potter-related projects. “[This year] is very wizardy,” she said of her work in 2016. “I stepped away, as completely as I can ever step away from Harry Potter, I really stepped away for about six or seven years and I wrote The Casual Vacancy, and I wrote the first [Robert] Galbraith, and I wrote some other things that will probably see the light of day at some point, and I had a real break. But, at the back of my mind, I always knew we would probably do Fantastic Beasts. Harry Potter has a kind of gravitational pull of its own, because the fan base is so enthusiastic still and so engaged.”
Rowling added that she doesn’t think she will be “entirely separate from Harry Potter, nor would I want to be.”