Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson recently confirmed she won’t return as Sybil Trelawney in the next Harry Potter film because she’s gearing up for a “Nanny McPhee” follow-up.

Talking to MTV, Thompson said she is more emotionally attached to “McPhee,” the touching 2005 family adventure she co-wrote and starred in.

“I’m making my own ‘Nanny McPhee’ next year. They mean much more to me,” she told MTV.

In the original film directed by Kirk Jones, Thompson played a nanny who uses all kinds of magic tricks calm down a single father’s children.

Currently titled “Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang,” the film is apparently set 100 years after its predecessor.

“It’s about two families: A family of country children, and a family of town children, [both] during the war. So it’s about evacuees, and the father is away at war. So this time, the lone parent is the mother,” Thompson said.

Thompson will also reprise her role as screenwriter for the new film, which is scheduled to head into production next year.

Thompson will next be seen alongside Dustin Hoffman in Joel Hopkins’ romantic drama “Last Chance Harvey.” She will also star in Richard Curtis’s next comedy, “The Boat That Rocked.”

Final word: I thoroughly enjoyed “Nanny McPhee,” and knowing Thompson will return to work on the screenplay herself, I have to admit this is certainly a second film I am looking forward to.