Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
 

Well it's happening. The 8th book will be released July 31st (Harry and JK's birthday)! So at least we know what we'll be doing in August. Unless you live in the UK and can see the London play. :P

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.2526724

Heading to Amazon RIGHT NOW to preorder. :tcool:

EDIT: No physical media preorder available yet. Added to my wishlist and will monitor... must needs hardcover!

Oh cool, I thought it was just gonna be a theater play.

I'm not very surprised that they're going to novelize it as well... it's easier to sell books than tickets to a play.

It's not really novelized. It's the script to the play. But it might be novelized later in the "Special Edition". But at least it's something for those who can't afford to fly out to London.

Hopefully that. Either way, instant must-buy.

I'm so glad I have something to look forward to read this summer. I probably couldn't have made it to England to see the play, so this is perfect.

I wouldn't mind reading a play. I also totally expect this play to be filmed and released on video. That would be free money for them. If they novelized it, they probably hire someone else to do it. Otherwise, Rowling would truly be writing another harry potter book, and I don't get the impression she ever wants to do that.

Inb4 it comes out in theaters next year.

Plot summary of The Cursed Child. Yikes.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-the-play.html

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That sounds extremely convoluted. I'm desperately hoping one of two things will come of this:

#1. Totally bogus
#2. True, but works better when actually read/watched.

But this... yikes is right.

I couldn't get halfway through that without starting to feel my head spin. Geez... this is why more often than not a "never the end" ending is better than some weird continuation like this.

What the f*ck was that. How canon is this book?

More like "Harry Potter and the Parallel Universe", wtf XD ?

I like it.

100% canon. Rowling wrote the story.

All this proves is any long running series should end completely before it turns to crap. This always happens when an old series is revived...they always screw things up.

That just reads like fan-fiction.

The clever thing about the Time-Turner in Azkaban was that it had limitations. It could only go back a few hours, and you couldn't run into yourself while doing it.

Now it's just... what a mess. I really hope this isn't a legitimate leak. But like the movies themselves I guess the series had to go into the toilet at some point. Rowling just couldn't let the series be.