That would be a true summation of my feelings but doesn’t even begin to cover just how amazing these plays are. Where does one start reviewing a show that begs its audience to #KeepTheSecrets? I suppose I could at this point simply say Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts 1 and 2 are truly awesome plays that I would recommend everyone go and see. Somehow though the Potter name drags Albus and his friend into territory their parents can only have dreamed about in their worst nightmares. As the train pulls away, Harry, Ron and Hermione are left hoping that their children will have a much quieter and less adventurous time at school than they did. Also on the train and about to enter his first year at Hogwart’s is Scorpius (Anthony Boyle), the only son of Harry’s old schoolboy enemy Draco Malfoy (Alex Price). Albus is nervous as this is his first year at school and he is afraid he won’t make any friends – even though he is going to school with his best friend and cousin, Rose (Cherrelle Skeete) daughter of Ron Weasley (Paul Thornley) and Hermione Granger-Weasley (Noma Dumezweni). Nineteen years after the ‘Battle of Hogwarts’ and Harry Potter (Jamie Parker) and his wife Ginny (Poppy Miller) are at King’s Cross Station with their two sons James Jnr (Tom Milligan) and Albus Severus (Sam Clemmett) sending them off to school on the Hogwarts Express. Move forward nineteen years after seven books and eight movies, JK has moved from pure fiction to live theatre and, after much hype, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts 1 and 2 have finally hit the stage at London’s Palace Theatre. The author was, of course, J K Rowling and the book was “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” which was published in 1997. The thirteenth – Bloomsbury – decided to give the book a go and unleashed a phenomenon that not only made the author a multi-millionaire but changed the world of children’s books forever. Once it was completed, the manuscript was sent out to publishers and twelve of them rejected it outright. Back in the mid-1990s, a divorced single mum sat in a cafe finishing a story that had come to her on a train journey.
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