For all the Potter fans out there, this is rejuvenating! As most of you know (I hope you do) that J. K. Rowling has been tweeting about a play named Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from months now, but there was no real information on the insights of the story of the book. I guess it’s your lucky day! Here’s what has been announced and talked about the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
The official details/synopsis of the play:
“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.”
The book is evidently and undoubtedly the sequel of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and is set to be 19 years after the events of what happened in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (I really hope that was not a spoiler, but if it was you have a lot of catching up to do). This officially makes Harry Potter and the Cursed Child the eighth installment of the series or should I say the eighth Potter story.
For all we know Harry Potter – The Boy Who Lived – was happily married to Genny Weasly (sister of Ron Weasly, Harry’s best friend) and was a father of three. We see him seeing off three of his children at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters in which Albus Severus (his youngest child named after two of headmasters of Hogwarts) is going to the school the first time.
What could have gone wrong along the way? What made his life at the age of 36 (that’s what the age I just came up adding the timelines) so difficult and complicated again. We will only get to know that when the play gets its spotlight.
Booking Details on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child comes to London’s West End summer 2016. Tickets go on sale online at 11am GMT on Wednesday 28 October, on a first come first served basis to all who have registered for priority booking, and on Friday 30 October to the general public.