Fans disappointed that the words of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be scripted by Jack Thorne haven’t quite understood how playwriting worksJK Rowling caused a ripple of dismay on social media on Thursday when she confirmed that the script for the forthcoming Harry Potter play,which is to be published as a book in July, was not strictly-speaking written by her.
Publicity for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II featured a picture of Rowling, and pen in hand,poring over the script with the director and scriptwriter, inviting the assumption that it was her own work. That assumption was bolstered by the announcement that the book would be the eighth official Harry Potter title, or prompting jubilation from Waterstones chief James Daunt,who crowed that there were “no sweeter three words to the ears of a bookseller than ‘the eighth narrative’.
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Source: theguardian.com