JK罗琳加密Tweet解读：要回归哈利波特系列了吗？

《哈利波特》的作者罗琳最近的一则推特，引起了哈迷们的疯狂猜测。我们都知道罗琳喜欢“angaram”，即重新排列字母的顺序来组成新的单词。想必大家对《哈利波特与密室》中伏地魔的名字的来源印象深刻，"I Am Lord Voldemort"就是伏地魔本名“Tom Marvolo Riddle”的字母重组。

在写作闲暇之时，罗琳阿姨似乎抑制不住手痒发了个谜语推。这下热闹了。你也来猜猜吧？ 谜底在文末揭晓。 The Guardian Could it be a spell? Or maybe a potion? Or might it just be the big announcement that many Harry Potter fans have been hoping for? Author JK Rowling has tweeted an anagram that has led many to speculate that “Harry returns”. However, there were also claims, fuelled by Rowling herself, that the answer has more to do with a spin-off involving the fictional ‘magizoologist’ Newt Scamander, author of one of Harry’s textbooks, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in the first Potter book. On Monday morning, Rowling posted the puzzle for fans to solve, before teasing them with the message “something to ponder while I’m away X”. “Cry, foe! Run amok! Fa awry! My wand won’t tolerate this nonsense.” read her cryptic tweet. Speculation soon started on sites such as Reddit and Twitter, with many fans noticing that the letters were an anagram of the phrase: “Harry Returns! Won’t say any details now! A week off! No comment.”

However, she hinted that one fan was “much warmer” with their guess “Newt Scamander’s History of New York Fauna: One town, my tale”. And, in a later tweet that included the hashtag “#helpfulhint”, she wrote: “The solution is the first sentence of a synopsis of Newt’s story. It isn’t part of the script, but sets the scene.”

Rowling called time on the Harry Potter series of books in 2007 after seven instalments. It spawned on of the highest grossing film series of all time, as well as the The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Florida. The films also launched the careers of actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. She has given few interviews and is seen as an enigmatic figure as a result. She has also written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She remains a wildly popular figure to millions of fans and is a philanthropist, having reputedly given £160m to medical research, single mothers’ charities and other causes. And she has not entirely shied away from public life. She declared political allegiances in the past, donating £1m to the no campaign in the Scottish independence referendum and publicly backing the Labour party, handing it a similar sum in 2008. Call off the anagramists: JK Rowling has announced that one Emily Strong, tweeting as @emybemy2, has solved her Twitter anagram: “Cry, foe! Run amok! Fa awry! My wand won’t tolerate this nonsense.” No, it wasn’t “Newt Scamander only went to New York to find a Pulkmahjkk”, or “I brung bick Harry. U gladd. Me go wurcke now. No speak.” Nor was it meant to warn us that Rowling’s “fur work canoe may fray”. Using “old-fashioned pen and paper”, @emybemy2’s “nerdiness paid off eventually” and she came up with the right answer: “Newt Scamander only meant to stay in New York for a few hours.” “You are hereby christened The One True Hermione of Twitter. I am deeply impressed, that really wasn’t easy!” tweeted Rowling to her winner, adding to her millions of followers: “Thank you, thank you, for being the kind of people who get excited about an anagram #myspiritualhome.” Rowling has said that she has to work now - “I’ve got a novel to finish and a screenplay to tweak” - and a second riddle won’t be forthcoming. So for all of you out there with time on your hands and no codes to crack, here are a selection of our favourite riddles from literature. Get pondering... 1.“Voiceless it cries,/ Wingless flutters,/ Toothless bites,/ Mouthless mutters.” – Gollum to Bilbo in JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit. 2. “The cock crew,/ The sky was blue:/ The bells in heaven/ Were striking eleven./ ‘Tis time for this poor soul/ To go to heaven.” – Stephen Dedalus to his pupils in James Joyce’s Ulysses. 3. “I have heard of a something-or-other, growing in its nook, swelling and rising, pushing up its covering. Upon that boneless thing a cocky-minded young woman took a grip with her hands; with her apron a lord’s daughter covered the tumescent thing.” – the Exeter Book, a collection of Anglo-Saxon riddles. 4. “If you break me, I’ll not stop working. If you can touch me, my work is done. If you lose me, you must find me with a ring soon after. What am I?” – Blaine the insane Mono train, in Stephen King’s Wizard and Glass. 5. “In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?” – asked by Stephen Albert in Jorge Luis Borges’ short story The Garden of Forking Paths. 6. “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?’” – the Mad Hatter to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. 7. “First think of the person who lives in disguise,/ Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies./ Next, tell me what’s always the last thing to mend,/ The middle of middle and end of the end?/ And finally give me the sound often heard/ During the search for a hard-to-find word./ Now string them together, and answer me this,/ Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?” - the sphinx to Harry Potter in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 谜底请关注我的微信公众号“英语报道”，回复“riddle”获得。 关于“英语报道”，ID idledrifter 精选墙外媒体报道，《卫报》《纽约时报》《大西洋月刊》等等优秀长文报道。也爱读书，追星，分享推荐优秀书籍、明星采访等。偶尔分享爱看的电影、美剧、英剧。喜爱英语的朋友就来关注吧！