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On Firstpost: Beloved Witch – Ipsita Roy Chakraverti on being India's most famous Wiccan, and witchcraftĬursed Child begins where The Deathly Hallows left off: it is 19 years after the events of the Dark War that saw the end of Voldemort.
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But it retains the sense of urgency and vivid storytelling – and of course the dry wit – that was so much a part of the earlier books. It's different from the previous seven books because of its format – it is, after all, the script of the play. Suffice it to say that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a worthy addition to the pantheon. But Rowling continued to weave spellbinding stories, releasing nuggets of information about these characters readers had grown up with, and the wider wizarding world, on her website Pottermore, or through spin-offs like Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them or Tales of Beedle the Bard.įirstpost’s Zenia D’Cunha has done an excellent analysis of why the Potter craze has lasted over two decades ( you can read it here) so this piece isn't going into that again. JK Rowling has been remarkably clever at keeping up interest in Potter and his friends – she didn't need to work as hard as she did at it, the fandom would have lapped up anything magic-related. And of course, the story only got better and better (reaching a peak, in this person's humble opinion, with the fourth book, Goblet of Fire). As I read the caricaturish sketches of Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, and of course Dudley, I wondered what was so wonderful about this book.īy the time Harry had discovered the charms of Diagonal Alley, platform nine-and-three-quarters at King’s Cross station, and was making conversation with Ron and Hermione on the Hogwarts Express, I was along for the ride. I certainly didn't stand in any queues to get my books, in fact, I remember starting to read Philosopher's Stone with a fair bit of adolescent cynicism: its very extreme popularity was a negative in my teenage eyes. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is now the eighth book in the seriesīack in 1997, I was already a high school student I came to the Potter books well after the mania was already underway and the first book had been a huge success.