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We are actually going to be part of Harry Potter’s life again – ‘19 years later’. And the Muggles can barely contain their excitement after the unveiling of the first look of the cast of Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The public preview will take place a week from now and the first look is already sending the internet into a tizzy.
And neither can we! Fuelling our excitement are reminders of funny shaped wizard hats, robes and wands, along with the effort put in by the production team to revive that marvellous magical feeling.
The look for Harry, now that he’s no longer a Hogwarts boy but rather a Ministry man, is stark. And yet, those horn-rimmed glassed and the scar is all the reminder we needed to take us back by 19 years when Harry first came to Hogwarts in his crimson robes.
The casting of Hermione Granger is perhaps the most fascinating of the lot. You’ve got to love how fiercely charismatic the most intelligent wizard of her age looks in both her avatars.
19 years later, Ron Weasley looks just as goofy!
Is it just me or does it look like the younger Ginny Weasley has aged into the lady on the right?
The synopsis promises semblance to the past in many ways. Harry’s world is still a little bit dark and uncertain, despite there being no presence of Lord Voldemort in the Magic World.
Read the play’s synopsis:
The revival is basically a celebration of everything we have grown up on. The magical world has always appealed to such a varied set of audiences, young and adult alike, that the eighth part of the series on stage is beyond exciting. Oh, what we would do to get this theatre group to perform in India!
The play will pick up where it left with Ginny-Harry’s son, Albus Severus, leaving for Hogwarts for his first term, along with James, their eldest son. At King’s Cross, bidding goodbye were also Ron-Hermoine’s daughter Rose, and Draco Malfoy’s son, Scorpious. And the last line read,
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