Harry Potter back on top

12 February 2016 - 03:05 By Reuters, AFP

Harry Potter is on his way back.Nine years after publication of the last novel in the best-selling series about the boy wizard, what has been billed as the "epic eighth Harry Potter story" will be published worldwide in July.Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts I & II, a script version of the upcoming, sold-out London play, will be published in physical book form in North America and Britain, and globally as an e-book. The book will read like a play, not a narrative novel.Yesterday the script topped pre-sale orders on the website of British bookshop chain Waterstones.The play, which stars Jamie Parker as Potter and Swaziland-born English actress Noma Dumezweni as an adult Hermione Granger, is already sold out through to January.The original Hermione was played in the movies by Emma Watson, who is white. ..

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