With the script for the eighth episode of JK Rowling’s wizarding tale due out on Saturday night, retailers around the world are expecting a magical bonanza
On 21 July 2007, it was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that readers were ready to queue for hours to get their hands on: would the boy wizard survive? Or would his nemesis Voldemort?
Nine years later, on 31 July 2016, it could almost be 2007 again: midnight on Saturday sees the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the script of the new play being performed in London’s Palace theatre. Billed as the “eighth Harry Potter story” by author JK Rowling, Potter fever is at frenzy level yet again: bookshops all over the world are planning out-of-hours openings and pre-orders are smashing records (records previously held, of course, by Rowling).
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