Lin-Manuel Miranda and J.K. Rowling Talk Harry Potter

By Maryann Yin 

Harry Potter & Albus Dumbledore (GalleyCat)Lin-Manuel Miranda revealed on Twitter that his favorite Harry Potter book is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This subject came up from a social media thread, launched by Miranda himself, called, “Pop Culture Events From Which I Have Still Not Recovered, Many Years Later.”

One of the tweets Miranda contributed features praise for a conversation shared between two characters: The Boy Who Lived and Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore. To the delight of the Twittersphere, J.K. Rowling, the author behind the beloved book series, posted a reply.

Below, we’ve collected tweets from both Miranda and Rowling’s Twitter pages in a Storify post. Which installment from the Harry Potter series is your favorite?