The new Harry Potter book is flapping through the windows of the world like an urgent owl delivering a magical message.
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Get ready to don your wizarding finest and party like it’s 2007 – meaning, of course, heading to your nearest bookstore Saturday night for a Harry Potter and the Cursed Child release party, something Potter fans last got to do when Deathly Hallows was published nine years ago.
Still, Scholastic expects the release on July 31, which coincides with Rowling’s birthday, to be the biggest publishing event of the summer.
The play, based on an idea by British author and Potter creator J.K. Rowling, is set 19 years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The official synopsis says: “It was always hard 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”.
There are fans with wands and wizard costumes, midnight book parties and throngs of excited muggles.
Toby will go to bed early on Saturday and set his alarm for just before midnight so that he is rested and ready when the book becomes available!
“For the millions of us who are Harry Potter fans, a new Hogwarts story is a huge event”, said Amazon Books editor Seira Wilson.
“I don’t know. I’m busy doing a play here at the moment, but I’m not sure”.
Numerous hundreds of thousands of people who have tickets to the play at the Palace Theatre in London haven’t actually seen it yet so there is some trepidation about whether to read the script beforehand.
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If you’re looking for other ways to get a hold of the book as soon as possible, a few independent bookstores will be open for midnight releases, and digital pre-orders will be appearing in Kindles at 12am local time. Book sellers are confidently predicting it will be the top seller of 2016.
