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The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby Marcuse » Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:37 pm

The new Harry Potter play has been confirmed as an official sequel to the HP series.

Trailer poster is below:

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It's supposed to focus on Harry and Ginny's son Albus as he goes to Hogwarts.
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby sunglasses » Fri Oct 23, 2015 3:16 pm

I'm screaming inside with excitement.
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby reallifegirl » Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:00 pm

I am crossing my fingers so hard that this gets a run in the U.S. Between this and the new Star Wars movie, 11 year-old inner me is very excited.
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby ShuaiGuy » Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:19 pm

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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby Aquila89 » Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:39 pm

Marcuse wrote:It's supposed to focus on Harry and Ginny's son Albus as he goes to Hogwarts.


Sounds bad already. (Why do I always have to be a buzzkill)? I have no interest in that memorial candle child.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted.


Kid goes to Hogwarts, struggles with a reputation that is hard to live up to? We've done that already! Why not a story about the First Wizarding War? Mad-Eye-Moody, when he was a badass? Neville's parents when they were healthy? Barty Crouch's morally ambigious leadership?
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby Ladki96 » Sat Oct 24, 2015 2:46 pm

Yeah, I want a book about Snape!
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby JamishT » Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:17 pm

If Harry Potter does not give clear consent, is it still Snape?


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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby PSTN » Mon Oct 26, 2015 12:20 am

I'd really like a book about Neville after Hogwarts. He was always the character I most identified with. Also, it'd be nice to see a Harry Potter story focusing on someone who isn't explicitly the Chosen One, and therefore destined to win regardless of how much or little effort he applies. Especially since he became an auror and a professor despite being canonically a completely useless fuck-up.
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby Malfeasinator » Sun Nov 08, 2015 8:11 am

Aquila89 wrote:
Marcuse wrote:It's supposed to focus on Harry and Ginny's son Albus as he goes to Hogwarts.


Sounds bad already. (Why do I always have to be a buzzkill)? I have no interest in that memorial candle child.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted.


Kid goes to Hogwarts, struggles with a reputation that is hard to live up to? We've done that already! Why not a story about the First Wizarding War? Mad-Eye-Moody, when he was a badass? Neville's parents when they were healthy? Barty Crouch's morally ambigious leadership?


I personally would love a more fleshed out story of the love affair between Albus Dumbledore and Grendelwald.
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby FieldMarshalFry » Wed Nov 11, 2015 12:33 am

*sigh* oh joy, more mediocre children's fiction for everyone to get overexcited about
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby gisambards » Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:38 am

Fry, I'll have you know that Harry Potter, like it or not, is British! It's your solemn duty to like it, good sir. Now rectify that comment or face court martial, eh wot!
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby FieldMarshalFry » Thu Nov 19, 2015 9:45 am

gisambards wrote:Fry, I'll have you know that Harry Potter, like it or not, is British! It's your solemn duty to like it, good sir. Now rectify that comment or face court martial, eh wot!

you can't court martial me! I'm the judge in them! and there are plenty of things from this Green and Pleasant land I can't stand, like Piers "Morgan" Moron, we kicked he out to the Abandoned Colonies for a reason!
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The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby Jannettethom » Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:09 am

I love every book, I love the Harry Potter series, but Im a little iffy on the movies. I read the final book almost as soon as it came out and I was extremely sad that it ended.
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby DashaBlade » Fri Mar 11, 2016 4:33 am

A part of me wonders if the reason this is a play is because it'll be easier to adapt to film than the novels were. It couldn't possibly be harder to adapt than the books, because the movies left out at least half of what made the books a decent read.

As others have said though, I'm not too stoked about the subject matter. Focus on pretty much anyone but the Potter family, I say. Harry's kids could possibly be made interesting, but let's face it, after their dad defeated the most evil wizard ever, any story about them will be painfully anti-climactic.

If we're nominating secondary characters for a story focusing on them, I nominate The Saga of Peeves the Poltergeist as my choice for "What's up with him?" treatment.
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Re: The Eighth Harry Potter Story

Postby Piter Lauchy » Tue Mar 15, 2016 11:12 pm

I want a book or ten about Hagrid, McGonagall, Hermione after Hogwarts (with more about her parents), the Marauders, Tom Riddle's time in Hogwarts and his life story in general, Malfoy after Hogwarts and Dumbledore's life story.
Furthermore, I want a "What if Neville had become the Chosen One?" series and a detailed description of how Horcruxes are made.
I adore the HP books and I'm moderately excited for the upcoming play and movies, but they both deal with characters that I'm not really interested in.
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