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‘Harry Potter’ word wizard Rowling pens new book — but uses pseudonym

Hold your hippogriffs!

Best-selling Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is the secret scribe behind “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” a brilliant new detective novel penned under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

The publisher’s Web site claimed Galbraith was the alias of a former Royal Military Police investigator. But literary sleuths were onto Rowling.

Three months after the book’s debut, Rowling came clean to the Sunday Times of London.

“I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience,” Rowling told the paper. “It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name.”

“The Cuckoo’s Calling” follows Cormoran Strike, a war veteran turned private eye who investigates the supposed suicide of a model.

Rowling has mentioned her love of detective books in the past.

Still, bookworms had other clues.

Rowling and Galbraith had the same agent, and Galbraith was the only client who had a silhouette instead of a photograph on the agency’s Web site. .