Thousands of Harry Potter fans have signed a petition urging J.K. Rowling to keep writing novels about the boy wizard after she admitted she could ?never say never? to more books. The ?Save Harry!? petition calls on Rowling to reverse her decision to end the bestselling series with the seventh and final instalment, ?Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?.

?Millions, perhaps billions of us, love reading his adventures and we never want them to end,? says the online petition, launched yesterday at www.saveharrypotter.co.uk.

After spending 17 years writing the books, Rowling said she was both ?euphoric? and ?devastated? that it?s finally over.

However, in a television interview, she left fans with the tantalising, if remote, possibility that she may one day return to the magical world of Hogwarts.