It looks like a new Harry Potter story will be told in the form of a book featuring the scripts for the upcoming play that will open in England this year…
Are you ready to see what happened to Harry, Ron, Hermoine and everybody else 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts where Lord Voldemort was finally defeated?
Well your wish is granted as Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II — the play that’s about to open in England this year — will be released as a book in July.
Pottermore has all the details:
Print and digital editions will publish simultaneously after the play’s world premiere this summer, and will comprise of the version of the play script at the time of the play’s preview performances.
Theatre previews allow the creative team the chance to rehearse and explore scenes further before a production’s official opening night. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opens for previews several weeks before its official first performance on Saturday 30 July and the Special Rehearsal Edition of the script book will later be replaced by a Definitive Collector’s Edition.
As far as the story for the new Harry Potter book:
Readers and moviegoers last saw Harry waving off his children at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts, in the epilogue to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picks up after that moment and is staged in two parts, due to the ‘epic nature of the story’.
Further details include Harry working with his son after a new kind of evil is discovered lurking around the wizarding world.
Keep your eyes peeled for more details as the new Harry Potter novel gets close to publication!
