JK Rowling pens a Harry Potter prequel

[Carol]

Goddlefrood:
> > I wonder what it might contain.
> 
> Kemper now:
> I hope it's about Mrs Figg!  I have a crush on her.
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2008/5/29/j-k-rowling-updates-site-on-new-prequel-material
Carol responds:

Sorry to disappoint you, kemper. It's an 800-page short story about
the Marauders that takes place three years before Harry's birth. So we
*might* get to see James's transformation from arrogant berk to Order
member and find out at least one of the ways in which the Potters
defied Voldemort--or what happened to Remus Lupin when he was out of
Hogwarts and no longer had the Shrieking Shack to transform in (no
more running wild in Hogsmeade on full-moon nights). Personally, I'd
rather read about Severus Snape and any doubts or delusions he had
about joining the Death Eaters.

She said that the story was easy and fun to write and labeled it as a
chapter from the prequel that she isn't writing. See Leaky for details:

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2008/5/29/j-k-rowling-updates-site-on-new-prequel-material

or just go to the News section of JKR's website.

Carol, who supposes that we'll have to wait for "the Scottish Book" to
find out more about Mrs. Figg