Rowling also has also been known to give insight into the Harry Potter story through her Twitter page and Pottermore website. She, too, was a long-time “Harry Potter” fan.
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There was a midnight opening at Hooray for Books in Alexandria, Virginia.
It is now being staged in the West End as a two-part play written by Jack Thorne and has received rave reviews for being, literally, “spellbinding”.
This big news broke hearts of insane Potter fans.
Selling 200 copies in store at Gibson’s and based on pre-order sales, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” has the capability of becoming the top selling book of 2016 for both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
“When I finished the last book it was kind of surreal because I never thought this would happen again”.
“He goes on a very big journey during these two plays and then, yeah, I think we’re done”, she was quoted as saying.
Cursed Child follows Harry’s story 19 years after where 2007’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows left off, with Harry now a 37-year-old employee of the Ministry of Magic who now has three children of his own. Twitter was full of excited posts all of Sunday (July 31) with readers from across the world posting selfies proudly holding the latest edition of the Harry Potter series.
A mother (R) dresses her daughter up as a Harry Potter character before taking photos in front of a poster advertising the new book on the day of its release at a bookstore in Hong Kong.
Still, Maree and several others wasted little time in getting a copy of the book, which was available for sale at midnight Sunday.
Bailey said around 100 people reserved the book online and came to the party to pick it up, many wearing costumes.
“‘Harry Potter’ was my childhood”, she said.
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This edition is only available for a limited time, to be replaced by the Definitive Collector’s Edition to be published early in 2017, which contains the perfected, definitive script with final stage directions and annotations and this edition will also include extra content, such as writing from the play’s creative team.
