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Harry Potter and the

Cursed Child

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a
play written by J.K. Rowling, Jack

Throne and John Tiffany based on the

famous series, Harry Potter. It was
originally published on 31st July 2016.

It is not a novel, but a script. It is also

the first Harry Potter story to be

performed in front of an audience.

The story is set 19 years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Harry Potter is no longer the young boy who faced Voldemort, but an

‘Auror’ working at the Ministry of Magic. He is also married to Ginny

Weasley and has three kids: James Sirius Potter, Albus Severus Potter and

Lily Luna Potter. When the second son of Harry Potter, Albus, goes to
Hogwarts, he struggles with the Potter family legacy. He also experiences

a strain in his relationship with his father. As the story continues, we learn

that Albus is sorted into ‘Slytherin’ and makes an unlikely friend - Scorpius
Malfoy. As the story unfolds, both father and son learn the bitter truth: at

times, darkness can be found in the most unanticipated places.

Many Harry Potter fans were left disappointed of the fact that the new
installment to the series was a play and not a book. Aside from being a

play, it’s also a more mature, character-driven and less magical story.

Furthermore, in terms of the plot, it seems disconnected from the
previous seven books. However, it can be argued that if this addition to

the series had been too similar to the previous seven novels, it would

have risked opening a series that had been closed in a great place.

Instead we have something very unique, and for me, very entertaining.

Maha Bukhari