JK Rowling makes an awful lot of money off the Harry Potter ebooks every day, which you'd rather expect from such a popular franchise.
For those wishing to travel back in time for profit, the idea of writing Harry Potter before anyone else thought to has got to be rather high up the list, as seven books, eight films, one stage play, a bunch of games, an upcoming TV show and plenty of other spin-offs and extra material are all raking in money.
Potter is big business, and according to The Sun, exactly how big a business it is can be worked out from looking at the accounts for Pottermore Ltd.
They report that the ebooks are raking in millions, are more people are spending their money on new ways to experience the Harry Potter series.
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All in all, they say the ebooks of Rowling's works are making an average of £148,767 a day, which is a heck of a lot of people getting involved with the wizarding world.
It's not just the main Harry Potter books making this money; there's a bunch of other ones, like in-universe books which the characters themselves would read, and the scripts for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which are bringing in the dough.
Years after Potter fans stormed the bookshops to get reading each instalment as it released and crowded up cinemas to watch Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) turn Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) into little flakes, it seems as though people are still big on the hype train.
In fact, some of them are a little bit too excited about Potter-related matters as the people who live near the Glenfinnan Viaduct, which the Hogwarts Express rides over, have started getting annoyed at the volume of tourists who show up.
Particularly as some of them have left behind actual s**t and not cleaned it up after their visit.
A few have even been daft enough to try and walk along the tracks themselves, resulting in near-miss incidents where people were almost hit by trains.
Perhaps all these fans getting back into the ebooks are sharing them with children of their own now they've got them, or seeing how their old childhood favourites stack up years later.
There have been some holes poked in the Potter logic over the years, and author Jason K Pargin suggested that if you go back and read them now, 'not a single plot twist in the story makes any sense at all'.
He argued that a bunch of the spells and magic tricks the characters use to get out of their latest jam don't make much sense because they would have been incredibly useful at helping out during earlier moments but were unused.
On the other hand, it's a story for children about a magic school, so maybe they only learned the stuff they needed just before they needed it.
Anything to stop Harry from spamming Expelliarmus like it's going out of fashion.
Topics: Harry Potter, JK Rowling, Money, Books
Joe Harker