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Rowling's magic quill isn't there to overload your senses with delicious bonmots about Butterbeer and Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans (is there one that tastes like farts?).Ī fan reads Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.Īll-in-all, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a satisfactory post-script to the series. Then there are parts where you'll really have to stretch your imagination and build your own fictional wizarding world. There will be bits that feel forced because the characters are being forced to narrate historical context that in a novel would be story exposition. For those unfamiliar with reading scripts before, think of it like reading only the conversational bits of the previous Harry Potter books, with little of the description and a lot more talkey.
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Very Importantly – it's a play script, not a novel.
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You very much need to at least have watched all the movies. This isn't one of those "you don't need to have read the entire series" books. If you haven't read any of the Harry Potter books before…well, this is the wrong place to start. The Palace Theatre where the Harry Potter and The Cursed Child parts One and Two play is being staged, in London.Ī few ground rules before you rush out to buy, beg or borrow the book, this will be of interest to fans only.