New Pottermore Gift Discusses Rowling’s Thoughts on Vampires, Rowling Reveals That There Are Jewish Potter Characters Via Twitter

Dec 18, 2014
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The latest Pottermore gift discusses vampires within the world of Harry Potter and finally puts to bed the old fan theory that Snape is a vampire. Previous Pottermore gifts have included new potions to make, as well as a Potions leaderboard in the Great Hall, and a new Potion badge.
J. K. Rowling also gave us some more info about the Harry Potter universe over Twitter yesterday, revealing that one of Harry’s classmates, Anthony Goldstein, is Jewish. Rowling went on to say that all faiths – barring Wiccans – are represented at Hogwarts.
.@benjaminroffman Anthony Goldstein, Ravenclaw, Jewish wizard.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 16, 2014
To everyone asking whether their religion/belief/non-belief system is represented at Hogwarts: the only people I never imagined there 1/2
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 16, 2014
are Wiccans.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 16, 2014