A beaming Ms Lapanowski received a round of applause from fellow fans when she received her copy from Lord Mayor Martin Haese.
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She spent three weeks recreating a dress robe which Ron Weasley was forced to wear to a ball during the fourth book.
“I think I will read it in a few days”, she said. “And the people just keep on coming”, she wrote. “So, I’m thrilled to see it realized so beautifully but, no, Harry is done now”.
The central London store was one of around 150 Waterstones across the United Kingdom putting on parties to celebrate the launch.
Zachary Saltzman, a Boston University student, used to eagerly await the release of each new “Harry Potter” book to read with his dad, a Sun-Times editor.
Daddy issues run deep in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
“I guess no one really knows what happens 19 years on and I’ve always wanted to know what happens to (Harry Potter’s) kids and his family”.
Now, the next print installment in the Harry Potter series could be even bigger than the last.
She said: “I am so so excited”.
Theatre producer Sonia Friedman said “many countries” could get a chance to see the play in future years.
“It’s been lock and key here, we haven’t been able to have access to it, but as soon as all the customers are gone I know all the booksellers will probably be surreptitiously reading it themselves. We have the fab lab coming, we have potions, we have trivia, we have face painting, we have a local artist coming to do caricatures, we have quidditch, we have a Muggle Wall, I mean there’s tons of things, we have all kinds of specials in the café”.
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As the play opened following almost eight weeks of previews, it drew whoops, applause and gasps of shock from the audience as magic appeared to unfold on-stage.
The actors draw both laughter and tears from audience members.
“It was magical. I sat on the edge of my seat the whole time”, said Kylie Cruikshamsks, 32, a big Potter fan.
The stage play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” had its gala opening Saturday in London’s West End and is already the theater event of the year.
Harry and his son Albus Severus (named for Dumbledore and Severus Snape) each one struggle with the legacy of the Potter name, after Harry defeated Voldemort.
The plot is a rollicking adventure in which Albus’ attempt to right a wrong goes awry.
The two-part play stretches over five hours and was co-devised by Rowling, written by Thorne and directed by Tiffany.
Reviews have been glowing, with Daily Telegraph critic Dominic Cavendish saying that “British theatre hasn’t known anything like it for decades”.
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The script of the Cursed Child play, being billed as the eighth Harry Potter story, is already a United States best-selling book with the most pre-orders since 2007.
