Potter fans prepare for revival of magic spell
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IT’S been five years since fans of “Harry Potter” tearfully said goodbye to the boy wizard they had grown up with, but a new play, book release and spin-off film are casting his spell all over again.
Fans went into mourning after the final movie, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” in 2011, cemented the end of JK Rowling’s seven-book series.
But the announcement in 2013 of three “Fantastic Beasts” films, a London play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” opening this weekend, and a corresponding book release of the script has expanded the Potter universe and re-awakened fandom.
“It seems like (Rowling) had the break she needed and she’s now ready to get back to the Potter world in a big way,” said Andrew Sims, 27, of fandom website Hypable.com. “People who read the book as children or teens, today they’re in their 20s and 30s. We’ve all grown up together with Harry and events like book release parties coming up will be us returning to our childhood.”
The seven “Harry Potter” books about an orphaned boy wizard in a magical universe have sold more than 450 million copies worldwide.
The film “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” opening in November and written by Rowling, is a spin-off from the Potter stories with new characters and plot, set in New York in 1926.
The script of the “Cursed Child” play, being billed as the eighth “Harry Potter” story, is already a US best-selling book with the most pre-orders since 2007.
Tomorrow, midnight book release parties are planned in US and UK stores, evoking the excitement from a decade ago when fans could not wait to devour the latest novel.
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