It’s official: J.K. Rowling will be releasing her 8th book from the Harry Potter Series: The Cursed Child. The best part, we don’t have to wait that long – the book is set to be released the end of July, Rowling announced this morning via her publishing platform Pottermore.
The new book takes the form of a published script from her new stage show Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The new book picks up exactly where the Deathly Hallows finished and centres around Harry and Ginny’s son, Albus Severus Potter, who is “struggling with the weight of his family legacy”.
A description of the new volume reads: “It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places.”
The book will be released in a two-part book, and while we would love all of this wizarding glory in one go, a part of us is relieved our Harry Potter dreams get to last just that little bit longer! Eek!