JK Rowling Gives More Updates for '12 Days of Pottermore Christmas'

For Day 7 of the "12 Days of Pottermore Christmas," author J.K. Rowling shows fans a peek of Professor Minerva McGonagall's past. The riddle for the day reads:

"Wilkie Twycross orders students to persevere, in their futile attempts to turn and disappear, but regardless of whether the students can do it or not, what is it called when a wizard appears on the spot?"

The answer for today is the word apparition.

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J. K. Rowling is a British novelist best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become thebest-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films which became the highest-grossing film series in history. Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and maintained creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment.

Born in Yate, Gloucestershire, Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty Internationalwhen she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, divorce from her first husband and relative poverty until Rowling finished the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 1997. There were six sequels, the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written three books for adult readers, The Casual Vacancy (2012) and-under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith-thecrime fiction novels The Cuckoo's Calling(2013) and The Silkworm (2014).