Author J.K. Rowling on Thursday revealed the title through a puzzle on her website, where visitors were invited to click on items to reveal a chamber and then guess the name of the book from the clues given.

    No publication date or other details were offered. Rowling explained she is still working on the book.

    "I'm now writing scenes that have been planned, in some cases, for a dozen years or even more," she wrote. "I don't think anyone who has not been in a similar situation can possibly know how this feels: I am alternately elated and overwrought. I both want, and don't want, to finish this book (don't worry, I will.)"

    The name of the best-selling schoolboy wizard series is likely to fuel fears that the author will kill off her hero.

    In a television interview in June, Rowling left open the possibility of Potter dying in the last book, saying she could understand authors who kill off characters "because that means there can be no non-author written sequels."

    The first six books in the Potter series have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide and been translated into 63 languages, making Rowling Britain's highest-earning woman.

    "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth movie in the series, is currently being filmed and is due for release next year.

    Rowling said on her website she saw a 20-minute preview of the film, which she said "looks fantastic."

    The latest movie in the blockbuster series will be released in July.

    (Agencies)

JK Rowling keeps Harry Potter fate secret

    BEIJING, Aug. 7 -- Harry Potter author JK Rowling is keeping the outcome of the final book in the series secret, but has teased fans by revealing the last ever word she'll write.

    Rumours have been circulating over the fate of the main character Harry played in the box office hit movie by teen actor Daniel Radcliffe.
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