Cursed Child Hypes Opening Night, While Image Suggests Book Has Leaked

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child officially opens tonight in London ahead of the book’s release, and everyone is in super hype mode.

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…………..cut to: nineteen….eighteen….nine….five years later.

Everyone in the Potter fandom knows of course, that the epilogue for Harry Potter cuts to nineteen years later. And in the world of the story, that’s where Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will cut to tonight as it picks the story back up for what we assume is the final installment.

But in the real world, it’s been nine years, almost to the day, since we all read those final words “All was Well.” And tonight, eighteen years after the finale was set, and nine years since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released in hardback and five year since the final movie arrived in theaters, we’re here again. In a couple of hours, the red carpet arrivals will start and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will officially open in London’s West End. And at the end of the day, the books will start flying off shelves.

Pottermore is celebrating by reminiscing about the first day or rehearsal, when the cast got to meet Jo Rowling. According to them, she introduced herself as “I’m Jo… Well, you know what I did.” But when asked to give credit to getting the show off the ground, she credited script writer Jack Thorne. “None of this would have been possible without that man.” In a few hours, fans will agree if he did her justice or not.

Rowling herself tweeted that it was a good day to open the show. After all, it’s Neville Longbottom’s birthday.

But not everyone has waited. Those working in bookstores…or perhaps some of their friends…have taken advantage of the fact that the boxes arrived earlier this week. Pictures have been floating around of said boxes, despite Scholastic insisting they should not take pictures of said boxes or put them on the internet. (They then seemed surprised and freaked out when those pictures went viral. It really is amazing how people don’t think.) The most ballsy of them posted this on reddit:

The anonymous person insisted that they bought it legally from “small bookstore last Sunday,” and they “guess [the bookstore] opened the box early and started selling them,” which was more immature non-thinking lying, since if that were true it would have been huge news that some bookshop wanted to lose their license by breaking only the biggest embargo of the year. Much more likely they either work for the book shop, or someone who loves them does, and they stole a copy. Either way, their inability to keep it to themselves suggests that whoever had that connection may not be so gainfully employed much longer.

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The rest of us will get our hands on copies tonight.