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attention all you muggles out there it's
hard to believe but it's been eight

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years since the last Harry Potter book
well since then JK Rowling has focused

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on writing for adults but will she ever
write four kids again

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Matt sat down with her for an exclusive
interview to talk about that and the

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charity she's now devoting most of her
time to so you've been away from a
camera basically for a couple of years

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which leads me to believe you have been
busy finishing the next installment of

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Harry no no I haven't but even as I
answer that I know that someone's
cutting this on YouTube to make it look

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as though I gave you hope so
I'm afraid I haven't been writing no
Harry Potter well I you know I keep

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saying that I feel I wrapped Harry's
story up and you got to know when to

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stop shaking my kids would beg to differ
look I've always I have always said

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Never Say Never
that will not Never Say Never I've

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always said I'm not going to say I
definitely won't because because I don't

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see why I should say that but I think
Harry Potter eight as in what happened

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next to Harry Ron Hermione I don't think
that's going to happen see now I heard
that answer and I thought there's hope

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so you're not saying no exactly in all
reality JK Rowling most likely has been
too busy to write an eighth book for the

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Harry Potter series one of the
best-selling book series in history

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she's focusing her attention and fortune
a fortune once estimated to be worth a

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billion dollars on helping the eight
million children living in orphanages

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and institutions around the world
through her charity Lumos take me back

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to the trigger what caused you to go in
this direction the trigger was a single

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photograph in a newspaper I came across
a photograph of a small boy who appeared

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to be caged and he was screaming through
what appeared to be wire and the image

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was so disturbing I wanted to turn the
page in fact I have turned the page and

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then I felt very ashamed of myself and I
thought no if it's as bad as it looks
you have to do something about it

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the darkest places if one only remembers
to turn on the light Lumos let's remind

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people right look so Loomis for those
who don't know is a spell I created in

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the Harry Potter books it's a light
bringing spell was that the mission

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statement was that to shed light on very
much exactly right so that it's twofold

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first of all bring the problem to light
we are literally trying to show the

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world what these institutions do to
children we know that it profoundly

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harms emotional physical psychological
development so we need to shine a light
on the problem but there's also the

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image of bringing light in darkness so
obviously we are looking to to help

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these children and greatly improve their
lives and I know one of the goals of

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illumise is to educate people dispel
some myths and also tell them about some

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things that are true for example we hear
the term orphanages except this is such

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an important point as many of those kids
are not orphans eighty percent eighty

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percent of the eight million children
living in institutions globally have

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either a living parent who would like to
care for them or immediate family so

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let's stop it would like to care at some
point exactly felt they ran out of

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options they ran out of options so the
single largest driver in two

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institutions is poverty so if you're
literally faced with a situation where

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you're being told where you can your
child can starve or we'll put it in the

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institution and it will be fed what are
you going to choose you want your child
to live right is the goal dojo to

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eliminate all orphanages that's that's
the goal absolutely but don't you have

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to be careful aren't there some
institutions that are providing enormous
lee important services for children in

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need the evidence is that we can give
better care within the family we can

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have health visitors and social workers
you know community workers and these

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buildings themselves can be repurposed
to provide the same care but the child

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remains with the parent in the family
when you deal with information like this

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yeah and it weighs on you very heavily I
can see it does I don't want to put you

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on the couch here I'm not trying to
analyze you but is it one of the reasons
that when you were finished with Harry

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you went to adult books because is it
simply too hard the dichotomy of writing

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children's
Hasse's while you're dealing with these

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children's tragedies in parts of the
world no it's not

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I've never shied away in my writing for
children or in my writing for adults

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with dealing with the darker side of
life I definitely will write for
children again because I love writing

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for kids so that's that will definitely
happen and that will sit comfortably

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alongside this work and maybe I'll get
to read read that new work to some of
these children you know is it fair to

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say that you would be as proud if not
more proud to have this as a major part

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of your legacy as you would no question
with what you've done no close
children's literature

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no question at all I mean it's real
living breathing children you know

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that's the thing I keep going back to
map this is a solvable problem so many

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problems in the world it's kind of
open-ended we hope will do some good we

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hope we'll find the cure we hope we'll
find the solution we know what the

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solution is here we can make this happen
that's not to say it's easy but if the

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will is there globally we can change
this you just have to love someone with

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that much influence and that big a
megaphone using it for such good and the

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story about her almost turning the page
but then saying no how many of us have

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had that experience firing by the way
she was here in New York for the US

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launch of Lumos and that's going to have
a lot more of this exclusive inverse

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interview on Monday Rowling's going to
open up about the Harry Potter character

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she recently had a disturbing dream
about and the lessons that she has

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learned from failure didn't sound like
we were getting another book out of it

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done well for her fascinating more of
that on Monday with Madame