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NEW YORK (AP) — Big news for Harry Potter fans!
Scholastic Inc. announced Wednesday that a “script book” of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will be published July 31. The book is a based on the two-part stage collaboration of J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany and arrives just after the play premieres in London on July 30.
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— Wizarding World (@wizardingworld) February 10, 2016
The first seven Potter books have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide, according to Scholastic, the series’ U.S. publisher.