harry potter and the cursed child book by jk rowling

But it’s likely that in fact, the feel-good, intricate but wholesome world of Harry Potter looks mighty good for parents generally, given the alternate options of bloody beheaders and irreverent wusses.

Part of that may be nostalgia: The readers who grew up with the book are now old enough to have children of their own. It’s clear that where Rowling goes Pottering around, fans will follow. Even the script-again, still not in bookstores-is planned to have a re-release, in a special collector’s edition. This week, with the play sold out for months in London, Rowling announced that another 250,000 tickets will be released for 2017 performances. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first in a spin-off film trilogy starring Eddy Redmayne premieres this fall, based on Rowling’s book of the same name. “We think excitement’s at an all-time high,” says Kline. Yet, in spite of these apparent problems, the franchise plows on. Series loyalists would not be remiss to wish that Rowling had stopped at the final book and left the otherwise tightly crafted verisimilitude of the wizarding world in tact.

The loopholes introduced by the play’s alternate realities could destroy one of the great joys of Rowling’s original world, where clues carefully laid in book one reappear in book five with satisfying results. The focal plot device of the play is also the most dubious one deployed in the original series: time travel. The story also focuses on Harry’s son, not the familiar boy hero and his gang.Īnd most importantly, as reviewers and redditors have both pointed out, plot-wise, the new story is not promising. The book stands apart from its early aughts counterparts. For one thing, it’s a script, not a novel, and it wasn’t written by Rowling, although she is co-credited along with the writer, Jack Thorne, and director John Tiffany with conceiving the story.

Harry potter and the cursed child book by jk rowling