As Rowling noted in her official statement, The Ickabog has remained alive through story time with her kids.
Instead, J.K. Rowling decided to take five years off from book publishing and ended up turning to the 2012 adult fiction novel The Casual Vacancy.
The best-selling author said she started drafting the story in between writing her Harry Potter book series and had planned to publish it after Deathly Hallows.