Online campaign builds excitement, but the revelation of an eighth Harry Potter book is unlikely

Harry Potter fans to the torture before a press conference, promised in the JK Rowling, the veil on its next venture has a lift.

The author tells readers of last week a cryptic site Pottermore.com, the "coming soon" next Rowling 's directed signature. Towers with one click leads to two owls on branches to a YouTube video shows a countdown clock ticking towards an announcement on Thursday by 11 clock. A Twitter account @ Potter More has tweeted: "Looks like the owls are always ready to deliver some exciting news" and already has more than 75,000 followers.

The speculation was widespread about the announcement. The possibilities include:

• An online game. This idea has gathered steam after it was discovered, Warner Bros. saw the Potter More brand two years ago and described it as "provides multiple users access to a global computer information \ network".

• The long-awaited dictionary of the verses Potter Rowling promising for years.

• The introduction of the seven Harry Potter novels as ebooks (the website states that includes Harry Potter and Potter More rights to publish Rowling).

• A social-networking fansite.

• A new book, for the most desired among Potter fans.

"Maybe the stories of the next generation of the Hogwarts students?" Said one reader, wistfully. Another hope it could be a prequel to Harry Potter and the Chamber 's Stone.

Daniel Radcliffe plays the bespectacled wizard in the films, told the LA Times that "I don 't think they' write another Potter rate.

He added:. "I '. M sure Jo will be writing a lot more in the coming years I' m sure she has much more in it than we 've read and much more to tell, as long as they don 't include Harry, I' m very happy to buy it. "

Rowling, Oprah Winfrey said in an interview last year she could 'definitely write an eighth, ninth, [and] 10th book ... I think I'm done, but you never know, "but it has previously said it was "highly \ unlikely" that they write more Harry Potter novels.

Rowling wrote on her website: "I 'have enough story for seven books and I never planned to carry the story beyond the end of book seven, I maybe an eighth book for charity to do a kind of encyclopedia of the world. so that I could all the extra material that 's not in the books ... we' ll see! "

The author 's PR company, Stonehill salt would say only that the project "is not a new book'.

An editor at the fansite HPANA said they had seen, a "sneak preview" site "and it is in scope, \ detail and sheer beauty of breathtaking." Andrew Sims agreed at Mugglenet: ".. [I] can tell you that it is fantastic I 'd say more, but I had an unbreakable promise to respect the confidentiality of making"