The article says that the story was written in collaboration with J.K. I hope you are more attentive than me and noticed a subtlety in the language here which I missed at first. Written by Jack Thorne and directed by Olivier and Tony award-winner John Tiffany, the play is a brand new story written in collaboration with J.K. This article continues with the following sentence: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ is the official eighth Potter story and the first to be presented on stage. A post titled “New details on Cursed Child, the ‘eighth Harry Potter story’” has the following subtitle: Let us turn our attention to the web site. Rowling” was printed with slightly larger size than “John Tiffany & Jack Thorne” and the words “a new play by Jack Thorne” were smaller still. I was amused to notice that the text “J.K. For example, the words “Based on an original new story by” are written in the smallest font while the words “Harry Potter” and “J.K.
If we spend more time examining the cover we can reveal more ingenious marketing traps in the choice of the font sizes. This is a very smart cover design from the marketing perspective because it tricked me to believe that J.K. The word “story” does not always mean a written story. Notice the use of the word “story” which is followed by the name “J.K. Source: īased on an original new story by J.K. Let’s first look at the cover of the book. I did not want to be compared with Rita Skeeter and therefore I tried to stick to the facts and analyze information from official sources before making conclusions. Rowling? After all, if the book was written by somebody else it should not be considered official, right? If the book is the eighth Harry Potter story how can it not be written by J.K. The answers to these questions were not obvious to me at first. Is the Cursed Child the official eighth part of Harry Potter story? The answer is yes, paradoxically.Was the script or the book written by J.K.Upon recovering from the pleasant shock two natural questions immediately formed in my head.
RowlingĪll seven Harry Potter novels are my favorite books and I became very excited after discovering a new addition to the series in the form of a stage play and its script publication. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is not written by J.K.