Time traveling, family conflicts and the struggle against evil: On Saturday the play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” ( “Harry Potter and the cursed child”) at London’s Palace Theatre premiere. One day later, the script came for the play that already on sale topped the bestseller lists in book form on the market. In the eighth story of Harry Potter saga the hero and his friends are now adults -. And still remains in the wizarding world somehow everything the same
19 years have passed since Harry Potter’s nemesis Lord Voldemort defeated. Now the 37-year-old head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement Ministry of Magic and has three children with his high school sweetheart Ginny Weasley, his best friends Ron and Hermione are also married and have two children together. The story begins where the novel in the epilogue of the seventh band ended: At the station, the four friends to adopt their children, who embark on a journey to the magic school Hogwarts. Harry’s second son Albus Severus breaks with mixed feelings about his first year. On the train he befriends calculated with Scorpius Malfoy, the son of Harry’s nemesis Draco, and is at Hogwarts then assigned, even the seemingly worst of the four houses of the school, Slytherin. All the stress the already difficult relationship between father and son and during the first three years of school as fly by, they ever further apart. The son suffers from the popularity and the legacy of his father, during this still struggles with his past
Because not let go of him. One day dive Amos Diggory, the father of Cedric Diggory, who in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire” was tragically killed by Lord Voldemort to Harry’s door and asks that he may travel using a magical time-turner in the past to preserve Cedric from his fate. Harry rejects the dangerous journey from, but Albus heard the conversation and decides to free himself from the legacy of his father, along with his best friend Scorpius to steal the Time Turner and save Cedric. And now the course of history is muddled and suddenly the peaceful wizarding world is again threatened as Lord Voldemort and his dark forces by anyone else.
All recognizable characters here
More than 450 million books JK Rowling has sold since the publication of the first Harry Potter novel. The volumes have been translated into 79 languages. now together with screenwriter Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany awakens with “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” the magic universe as a two-stage play back to life. Here, this will probably be the last journey into the world of Harry Potter: After this story will finally be an end, Rowling had announced on publication weekend
Almost 10 years have the novel series since the publication of the final tape. , “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, went into the country, but much remains the same: Hogwarts is still the same charming place and the humor of Professor McGonagall is still as bone dry as ever. The motif of time travel had already been taken up in its third volume, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” Rowling. Once again there is the Urkampf between good and evil. Here Rowling may operate through time travel story on the wide pool their brilliant and diverse villains: Severus Snape, Dolores Umbridge and of course Lord Voldemort are all part of the story
Sure, it is unfamiliar to readers of novels. now to keep the script for a play in the hands, not least because particularly Rowling loving and detailed descriptions of the wizarding world have spotted the charms of the Harry Potter series. The script makes a great desire to see the play in London, rather than to strain your imagination. Indeed, can the eighth story miss a bit the ingenious interweaving of plot lines of the seven previous volumes, which kept the fans to the last breath.
tension, humor and numerous twists
Nevertheless, you can not help, the boy wizard generation, especially, as already close Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter duo infernale their predecessors into the heart. The successful recipe of adventure, excitement and humor is also at “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”, which comes up to the end with many turns.
In the end, there are the known main characters from the novels, the make this eighth story of the series so special ravishing: Hermione Granger, which has evolved from a know-it-student to a TAFFEN®, feisty woman. Ron Weasley, of a symbol of sincere friendship remain with his droll and warm style, and finally Harry, who is struggling not only with his role as conqueror of evil, but especially with his role as a father. Actually, it is a story about fathers and sons, who each can not be understood or want: Draco and Scorpius, Harry and Albus and Harry and his father figure Dumbledore, who has a cameo appearance in the form of a talking portraits, they are all talking past each other , without being able to really show their deep affection. That Harry’s load has also become that of his son, both noted only after a series of tragic conflicts. These moments between father and son belong to poignant highlights of the story and give it an unsuspected depth.
Which of the two is actually the “cursed child” is the interpretation of the reader is left. At the end, without all the adventure and magic, the story revolves around the same issues, to have the books of the novel series ever filmed: acceptance, friendship and love. And it can be in these weeks hardly have enough.
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