As we posted back in January, J.K. Rowling attended the Bath Literature Festival on March 10th. The Independent posted a video and highlights from her chat with James Runcie.

Fans are constantly asking if she will write a prequel to the Potter series based on the Mauraders. Once again she has stated that she currently has no plans to do so, because she feels “prequels are not generally very successful,” but will “never say never”.

Of the adult themes in her newest book, The Casual Vacancy, she says “I have never ever sat down and thought… ‘now is the moment to write a book with a penis or with swearing in it’. This was a book I was burning to write… I draw on my own adolescence… and on my experience of adolescents as a teacher… I see adolescence as very fragile. When I watch my two young children, who are eight and 10, they will watch shows on Nickelodeon where teenagers are wholly false.

She also teased about the new children’s book she is writing by saying, “It will be shorter [than Potter]. I’m very bad at estimating what sort of age group will like this… I think it might be for slightly younger children.”

It wouldn’t be a J.K. Rowling interview without talking about the success of the series, so in talking about her first experience with fame: “From about 2000, I knew there would never be any topping Harry Potter. My publishers had got this train for the book launch which consisted of me leaving Kings Cross. I looked out at all the people screaming. It was like Beatlemania. I remember thinking ‘you will never top this’. [Now], I can say ‘oh, I will never top it’ or I can see how lucky I am… I truly feel completely free.”