JK Rowling pens a Harry Potter prequel

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
Goddlefrood:
> > > I wonder what it might contain.

Kemper:
> > 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:
 
> Sorry to disappoint you, kemper. It's an 800-page short story about
> the Marauders that takes place three years before Harry's birth. 

<snip>
 
> 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. 

Geoff:
I doubt whether you'll get anything like what you have on your wish 
list. 800 words is about two sides of A4.