“I’d like as many Potter fans to see it as possible”.
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Instead they had food and entertainment all night until the big reveal. Employee Patrick Hunter says about 150 people, many dressed up as their favorite Potter character, counted down like it was New Year’s Eve waiting to get the book. And while Kostick said the median age was about 25, those who would have been kids when the series first began, she said there were quite a few who were younger. “It was really exciting, there was a real electricity in the air”. It seems like after eight films, eight books and nearly two decades, J.K. Rowling is officially done with The Boy Who Lived.
Harry Potter, a 37-year-old father of three, is burned out from his job in the Ministry of Magic.
When asked if she hoped the show would head to Broadway, the author said, “I’d love it to go wider than that”.
“I never wanted to write another novel”, she added, “but this [book and play] will give the fans something special”.
“When I heard the new book was coming out, I went completely ballistic”.
The story is set 19 years after we left Harry, Ron and Hermione at Platform 9 ¾, as they are sending off their kids to Hogwarts, in the series’ 7th installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will be hitting the Evergreen Park Library’s shelves when the library opens at 9 a.m. Monday.
The play premiered at London’s West End theater on Saturday, July 30 and is already sold out through May 2017.
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Wizards were a pretty common sight Sunday afternoon as “Harry Potter Day” took over the community of Kensington. J.K. Rowling has finally admitted what no Harry Potter die hard would ever want to hear: The series has officially come to an end.
