Everything J.K. Rowling Confirmed on Twitter AFTER Harry Potter Ended

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Hey everyone, Welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. Over the many years that I’ve done YouTube, I see variations of the same comment pop up on my videos all the time — “Where does all this extra information come from?” And to be honest, this is a fair thing to ask, because very often I go BEYOND the 7 books and pull information from things like extended publications, interviews and most pertinent to today’s video: TWEETS from JK Rowling herself. Some of these secondary sources are an absolute goldmine for digging deeper into Potter lore, and while they sometimes just reveal fairly innocuous things like character birthdays… There’s also lots of good stuff in there that will change not just how you see a character, but also how you interpret major moments in the story. And because a lot of these factoids came from quick, casual replies Rowling posted on Twitter…They would have been pretty easy to miss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains audio extracted from videos on the Harry Potter Theory YouTube channel.
0:10.0	Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory.
0:19.0	Over the many years that I've done YouTube, I see variations of the same comments pop up on my videos all the time.
0:26.1	Where does all this extra information come from?
0:29.0	And to be honest, this is a fair thing to ask, because very often I go beyond the seven books
0:33.3	and pull information from things like extended publications, interviews, and most pertinent to today's video, tweets from J.K. Rowling herself.
0:42.5	Some of these secondary sources are an absolute gold mine for digging deeper into Potter law.
0:47.8	And while they sometimes just reveal fairly innocuous things like character birthdays,
0:52.2	there's also lots of good stuff in there that will change
0:54.4	not just how you see a character, but also how you interpret major moments in the story.
0:59.8	And because a lot of these factoids came from quick, casual replies Rowling posted on Twitter,
1:05.2	they would have been pretty easy to miss.
1:07.5	While Rowling has tweeted about many aspects of a visiting world, in today's video I'm going to keep it character-centric, starting with one of the biggest names of them all, Alba's Dumbledore.
1:18.2	One of the long-held beliefs among Harry Potter fans is that Rowling announced Dumbledore as being gay on Twitter, but interestingly, she actually revealed this information much sooner in 2007 during an interview.
1:29.7	She only later followed up with this topic on Twitter, where she explained that this was a non-issue for the magical community.
1:36.3	The Wizards don't give a damn.
1:37.7	It's all about the magic for them.
1:39.7	Rowling also shut down several fan theories surrounding Dumbledore, confirming that Dumbledore was not a
1:44.7	time-traveling Ron and Dumbledore was not secretly Jeremy Corbyn.
1:49.0	Rowling also shut down another popular fan theory.
1:52.0	The idea that Forks was Dumbledore's hawcracks.
1:55.0	She said it was strangely upsetting that anyone believed it, and added that it makes no sense if you've read and understood the books.
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