But without this understanding, you'll be left in a grey limbo with a nostalgic 7-part past and the child-like inability to let go of it, therefore not being able to grasp a new re-telling of a story of familiar characters. It may or may not be canon for you ( even thought she admits it is), and that choice is left to you. This is a play, based on a story that JK Rowling envisioned. And, so, the most crucial thing about reading Harry Potter and The Cursed Child is understanding that this is a separate universe. The Cursed Child, however, begins 22 years after the Battle of Hogwarts. But we took both the literary and the cinematic journeys together. We had our own version of Hermoine in our head, and accepted Emma Watson as an interpretation of it. We could always jump from watching The Half-Blood Prince to referencing to a excerpt in The Prisoner of Azkaban. The seven books that she wrote, and the seven movies that followed, was a cocoon of a universe that inter-mingled around one another. Ron is mine, Dobby or Fred Weasley could be yours. It has a message for everyone presents every character's story to you.
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One of the most beautiful things about JK Rowling's Harry Potter universe was its plurality of perspective. This made me shut up for a while, because I agreed. "Ron was crucial, not because Hermoine fell in love with him. It's all about balance," I said, but she was quick to point out a very crucial issue. Cracking jokes, making light of things, taking care of the kids while his wife works is not buffoonery.
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"He is married to the Minister for Magic. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: From the play (L) and the book cover (R)