| Jenna Mullins 23. Oktober 2015 – 10:32
We felt a great disturbance in the Muggle world.
(See what we did there? We combined two franchises into one tagline. Man, we are nerds).
That crackle of energy you felt on Friday morning was most likely the news that the story of Harry James Potter is not over, and we’ll be getting an eighth installment in the form of a play called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. A cursed child? Well, that’s what you get when you name your kid Albus.
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“It was always difficult 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,” reads the official synopsis. “While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.”
This is so insanely exciting for Harry Potter fans. Not only are we getting another part of the Harry Potter story (it’s like a drug to us, really), but it takes place in the future and it was written by Queen J.K. Rowling herself. Needless to say, Potterheads quite literally had a meltdown and did not know what to do with themselves upon hearing this epic news. Warning: strong, intense, profanity-laced and passionate Harry Potter responses below:
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opens at the Palace Theatre London in July 2016 with preview performances starting in May 2016. If you don’t live across the pond, you’d better start saving up to make the trek over there next summer. The idea that a Potterhead would miss this continuation of the HP saga is straight up criminal.
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