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In critiquing and potentially changing Harry’s past, the play justifies its own portrayal of his future.Īnd while reading the script (three out of four stars) is an incomplete experience - noticeably lacking the richness that acting and staging would add to a realized production and the familiar Rowling prose a novel would have contained - it may capture just enough of the old Potter magic to please even the most skepticalfans.
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The author has encountered her fair share of criticism for being stuck in the past, constantly tweaking and expanding the Potter universe she created, to the point where some fans and critics would simply like Rowling to move on.Ĭursed Child is, in many ways, a direct response to that criticism, taking readers back to the great moments of the series while also spinning the Potterverse forward. Rowling, who crafted the Cursed Child story with writer Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. It’s a line Harry might have been saying to his creator, J.K.
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“We've been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we've blighted their present," a 40 year-old Harry Potter says gravely. Scholastic called the sales figures “unprecedented for a script book.There’s a moment in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - the new play resurrecting Harry and friends onstage in London, and published as a script-book - when Harry and his old rival Draco Malfoy are discussing their relationships with their respective sons. In the US, publisher Scholastic announced that more than 2m copies of the Cursed Child were sold in the first 48 hours, from an initial US print run of 4.5m copies.
There’s no doubt about it this will be our biggest book of the year.” “By the end of this first week, we expect to exceed The Lost Symbol sales and to match the lifetime sales of our bestselling script book ever, An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley. “After just two days’ sales, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is already our biggest-selling hardback since Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol in 2009,” said Waterstones buying director Kate Skipper.
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The magazine predicted that if the playscript continues to sell at this rate, it will become the title with the second biggest single-week sales, behind Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which sold 1.8m copies of the children’s edition, and 780,000 copies of the adult edition in July 2007. The record was previously held by EL James’s erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which sold 664,478 copies in a week in 2012. Little, Brown said they made the Cursed Child play the fastest-selling playscript ever, and the fastest-selling book published this decade.Īccording to the Bookseller magazine, the sales of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child have already beaten the biggest single-week sale of any title this decade. Publisher Little, Brown, which released the script of the eighth Harry Potter story at one minute past midnight on Sunday 31 July, announced the sales on Wednesday morning. JK Rowling has proved that she still has the magic touch after the script of her dramatised story, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, sold more than 680,000 print copies in the UK in just three days - making it the fastest-selling book since the last Harry Potter title.