Harry Potter · Book 11

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

by J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany

Published
31 July 2016
Pages
343
ISBN-13
9781338099133
Type
companion

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About this book

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016, 343 pages), written jointly by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, is a stage-play script set nineteen years after Deathly Hallows -- many fans treat it as a separate continuity from the seven main novels rather than required reading.

Its place in Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is book 11 in the Harry Potter series. It follows The Tales of Beedle the Bard. It is followed by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay. See the full Harry Potter reading order.

Harry Potter follows an orphaned boy who discovers, on his eleventh birthday, that he is a wizard — and that the hidden magical world has been waiting for him. Whisked from a miserable cupboard under the stairs to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry finds friendship with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, a talent for the broomstick sport of Quidditch, and a destiny tangled with the dark wizard who murdered his parents. Across seven novels, J. K. Rowling grows the story up alongside its readers. The…

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