Almost ten years since the final book J.K. Rowling wrote for the franchise, a new installment, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”, drops at midnight Sunday.
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Tabitha has read all seven of the previous Harry Potter books – nearly one for each of her 8 years – and planned to start reading the Cursed Child this afternoon.
“We’re excited, I think, for a lot of the people who love Harry Potter and are a little bit older now and have children of their own”.
“I’d like as many Potter fans to see it as possible”, Rowling said on the red carpet before the show, as fans cheered and poked camera phones over crowd barriers in hope of getting a picture.
Theatre producer Sonia Friedman said “many countries” could get a chance to see the play in future years. Bookstores in San Francisco, Oakland, Palo Alto, and Santa Clara are among the many where you can celebrate Harry’s big return Saturday night.
Adelaide’s Rundle Mall resembled Diagon Alley this morning when hundreds of apparent witches and wizards swooped in to pick up a copy of the highly anticipated latest book in the Harry Potter series. “But they’ll know the story”, author J.K. Rowling said at the play’s premiere.
From that planning, Jones and Collins came up with 16 Harry Potter themed activities to host during the event.
“We were here so early that the mall wasn’t even open yet so we had to come up through the cargo lifts”, she told AFP, adding that it was “all worth it”.
This time, it comes in the form of a play.
The launch at 11.01am was marked by Wadsworth, dressed as “Hellie” Potter, welcoming attendees and fans singing happy birthday to Harry Potter before the first box of books was opened. “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”.
Once there, Albus struggles with the weight of his family legacy and goes to extreme and unsafe lengths to right the wrongs of the past.
Dominic Cavendish of Britain’s Daily Telegraph gave it five stars, while Matt Trueman for Hollywood trade paper Variety described it as a “theatrical blockbuster”.
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“(It) chimed perfectly with the material I had about the next generation and I could see it would work perfectly”, she said.
