J K Rowling Confirms there's going to be two more Harry Potter movies

Our worlds have been a lonely place since the final installment of the Harry Potter series hit our cinemas five years ago. Since then, we've had to make do with watching the same seven films over and over again any time it rains outside/we're hungover/it's a Sunday.

But it's time to rejoice, one and all, because Harry Potter creator J K Rowling has only gone and confirmed that there's going to be not one but TWO more HP films than we first thought for us to get our grubby mitts on, and we can't effing wait.

Using Twitter (of which she is Queen) to confirm the news, Rowling informed a fan that the Harry Potter spin off, Fantastic Beasts, would be made into three films, and not just the one we had originally thought.

J.K. Rowling Verified account ‏@jk_rowling

J.K. Rowling Retweeted Katie Hendrickson

You heard wrong, I'm afraid. #CursedChild is a play. #FantasticBeasts will be 3 movies, though!

The first of the films, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, is being released on November 18, which means it's definitely not too soon to start a countdown. The first film in the trilogy, which is based around the Fantastic Beasts textbook written 70 years prior to Harry Potter's time, stars Eddie Redmayne as textbook author, Newt Scamander.

  

But up until this week, it was thought that the film would be a single entity, so the news that it's now being turned into THREE inevitably brilliant films is music to our ears.