Our greatest dreams have come true. Author J.K. Rowling has announced an eighth instalment in the Harry Potter series. It’s the gift that just keeps on giving.
Named Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts I and II, the story will follow on 19 years later, just like we saw a snippet of in the final few minutes of Deathly Hallows. But it’s not a conventional book – it will be a published version of the stage play. The play, written by Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, is of the same name and opens in London in July.
The best news about Cursed Child? It comes out July 31. Die-hard fans know that’s also his birthday.
As the synopsis reads on Rowling’s Pottermore website: “It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.”
“While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.”
171 days and counting.
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