Warner Bros. just showed off a new trailer for its Harry Potter prequel "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," and it looks pretty incredible. The movie will take place in 1920's New York City and features a whole new cast of characters.

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Comic-Con has gifted us with a new trailer for "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," the beginning of a Harry Potter spinoff movie trilogywritten by J.K. Rowling herself.

The movie comes out on November 19. But in the meanwhile, there's a lot to unpack from this trailer. It's filled with areas and magical animals we've never seen before.

Rowling published a book with the same name in 2001, "written" by Newt Scamander, the main character in the movie. The book goes through all the magical beasts that Scamander encountered on his travels and catalogs them. I've consulted it to try to identify all the magical animals in the trailer, but there are still some mysteries.

Here's a complete breakdown of the trailer. Check it out:

Before the footage starts rolling, we get a black screen and some voiceover. It sounds like a witness's account of a supernatural event. "It was like, um, like a ghost!" The footage starts with Percival Graves, an American auror, entering a house. It looks like he's going in to inspect something.

The camera pans out, and the building turns out to be in ruins. The voiceover continues, "I saw its eyes, shining white eyes! And it dove down underground." The description doesn't match anything in the book version of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," which is Newt Scamander's catalogue of magical beasts he's aware of.

We see the witness, dressed in a gray coat. Then there's a boom. He looks up and the walls are cracking. Already, it feels like we're dropped in the middle of a supernatural mystery.

J.K. Rowling's first-ever screenplay is an adaptation of her book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," a fictional textbook assigned to Hogwarts' students in "Harry Potter." The author of the textbook, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), is a magizoologist whose life work was finding and documenting magical creatures around the world.

So, obviously, the movie version of Newt's adventures is sure to include said magical creatures. But what kinds? The "Harry Potter" films have already brought house elves, giants, and dragons to the big screen. But "Fantastic Beasts" will likely have more portable critters — and the latest trailer revealed at San Diego Comic-Con gave us a look at some more creatures from the film.

First up, we see that there is a house elf seemingly working at the US version of the Ministry of Magic, the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA). He seems to have a wand in his hand, and we'd guess that he's working as a wand cleaner for government employees, similar to a shoe shiner's stand found in Muggle office buildings. 

Wizards and witches in America also seem to be on better terms with Goblins, perhaps. Here, Newt Scamander and Porpentina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), the MACUSA witch helping him round up some of his escaped critters, grab a drink at a local speakeasy. A well-dressed Goblin is in the foreground.

Another well-dressed Goblin is also in the scene:

Aside from humanoid characters, there's this little monkey. It looks like a Demiguise, an ape-like creature with silvery hair and great big black eyes. It's hair is spun into Invisibility Cloaks, like the one Potter owns.

We also saw this huge beast, which looks like a cross between a snake and a serpent. If we had to guess, Tech Insider identifies it as an Occamy, a "plumed, two-legged winged creature with a serpentine body." It can reach up to 15 feet long and is very aggressive, especially over its silver eggs.

Is that what No-Maj — that's the term for "Muggle" in America — Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler) could be holding?

Speaking of Jacob, he gets himself in a fair bit of trouble with whatever this is:

We think it might be a Nogtail, which resembles "a stunted piglet with long legs, thick stubby tails, and narrow black eyes." It just jumps out right at him:

There are also lots of things that fly. We have this huge winged white bird, which looks like a cross between a Phoenix and a Hippogriff, though Tech Insider was unable to identify this creature.

There's also this little blue bug, which hangs in the air above Porpentina's head. It's probably a Billywig, which is "around half an inch long and a vivid sapphire blue [... with] wings attached to the top of its head." They're typically native to Australia, according to our handy "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" textbook.

We got a better look at this strange, bird-like creature, which is also known as a Swooping Evil.

In a previous trailer, Newt seemed to throw a tiny blue ball into the air that turned into the winged creature, almost like a butterfly from a cocoon. In this new trailer, the bird swoops down and shrinks into Newt's hand:

And then there's this huge monster, which seems to be the source of our protagonists' woes. While it could be a beast that we've seen from the trailer, it's more likely that this is some new creature that we'll find out about over the course of the movie.

Someone in the trailer describes the destructive beast to auror Graves (Colin Farrell) as: "It was like a, like a ghost. I saw its eyes — shining white eyes — and it dove down underground."

In this shot, you can almost see those great big white eyes and two huge wings if you look closely:

But what its powers are remain totally unclear. 

In a past trailer, fans also got a look at a Niffler. Just look at this little fella!

Nifflers were first introduced in Rowling's fourth novel, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." Hagrid teaches about them in his Care of Magical Creatures class, and tells students they are "quite cuddly." But they have one distinctive personality trait: They love shiny and valuable objects. Clearly the Niffler from the trailer is trying to break into a small purse, probably in the hopes of finding coins. 

He's probably the little guy trying to break out of Newt Scamander's briefcase to begin with:

We'll just have to wait until "Fantastic Beasts" comes to theaters November 18 to know for sure. In the meantime, read up on other creatures we hope to see in the film.

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Near the beginning of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," Harry, Ron, and Hermione visit Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, a magical joke shop opened by Ron's brothers Fred and George.

It's a fantastic scene, with magical toys whizzing and banging through the air. Fred and George Weasley opened the store after dropping out of Hogwarts, and they poured all of their creativity and energy into it, making everything from Anti Gravity Hats to Self-propelling Custard Pies.

But while everything is described or named in the books, it's much more complicated to make it appear in the movie. It essentially requires designing an entire line of items from scratch. Graphic design firm MinaLima was tasked with making everything in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.

"It was a bit of a dream, really, to have six months to design a load of crazy packaging," Minaphora Mina, the co-founder of MinaLima, told INSIDER.

Even though the store had just a couple of minutes of screen time, the designers at MinaLima had to design everything in the store, and make sure it had a plausible backstory. Everything in the shop had to look like it was manufactured and sold by the Weasley twins. Just as with the Marauder's Map, they had to put themselves in the heads of the characters who would design the objects. They figured the Weasleys wanted to sell a lot of products and probably weren't good designers, so they made everything look "vulgar and contradictory" with flashy colors and printing techniques.

"They’re teenagers, teenage boys whose mission was to sell as much stuff as possible," Mina said. "Also it was a huge sense of humor. Everything about those two is about humor."

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In the world of "Harry Potter," wands are what makes magic happen.

It's what lets wizards and witches cast spells, and it can form an attachment with a person over their lives. As Garrick Ollivander, the famous wandmaker, told Harry at the beginning of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone": "The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. It's not always clear why."

HalloweenCostumes.com put together a nifty infographic of all of the most important wands in the "Harry Potter" series, based on how they're described by J.K. Rowling in the books and elsewhere. It's not to scale. Check it out:

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We've seen the actors, and now we're getting a look at the stage production.

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" stars Jack Thorne as Harry, Noma Dumezweni as Hermione, and Paul Thornley as Ron — 19 years after the end of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

It picks up after the last scene in the book, with Harry dropping his son off at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters for his first year at Hogwarts.

The play's been on stage at London's West End with preview shows since June 7, with its official premiere this week. For people who can't make it to London to watch the show, we're getting a book version of the script that drops at midnight on July 31st. You'll just have to imagine Thorne, Dumezweni, and Thornley acting out the script. Here are some pictures from the production to help you out.

Here's Jamie Parker as Harry Potter. The lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead hasn't faded.

Harry's sitting down with his youngest son, Albus Severus Potter. He's played by Sam Clemmett.

Albus Severus is named after — you guessed it — Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape.

We've seen the actors, and now we're getting a look at the stage production.

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" stars Jack Thorne as Harry, Noma Dumezweni as Hermione, and Paul Thornley as Ron — 19 years after the end of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

It picks up after the last scene in the book, with Harry dropping his son off at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters for his first year at Hogwarts.

The play has been doing preview shows on stage at London's West End since June 7, with its official premiere this week. For people who can't make it to London to watch the show, we're getting a book version of the script that drops at midnight on July 31st. You'll just have to imagine Thorne, Dumezweni, and Thornley acting out the script. Here are some pictures from the production to help you out.

Here's Jamie Parker as Harry Potter. The lightning bolt-shaped scar on his forehead hasn't faded.

Harry's sitting down with his youngest son, Albus Severus Potter. He's played by Sam Clemmett.

Albus Severus is named after — you guessed it — Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape.

Ariana Grande is 23, falling into the age span of what demographers and people who give TED Talks call "millennials." As such, she loves Harry Potter.

Grande loves Harry Potter so much that she bought a custom-embroidered jacket with a portrait of Albus Dumbledore's face on it, identifying her as a member of Dumbledore's Army.

It looks like it's made by a pair ofcustom designers. Just look at those details!

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The book edition of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" comes out on midnight, July 31st.

It's the book edition of the play with the same name — written by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany — which picks up the "Harry Potter" saga 19 years after the ending of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

But it's not quite finished yet.

This edition, called "The Special Rehearsal Edition," will be be published until early 2017. Then it'll be replaced in stores by a "Definitive Edition."

The Definitive Edition, according to Pottermore, will contain "the perfected, definitive script with final stage directions and annotations, as seen on opening night and beyond. This edition will also include extra content, such as writing from the play’s creative team."

Since early June, the play has been in previews on London's West End. The cast is performing the rehearsal edition of the script, but changes are being made based on audience feedback. Meanwhile, the rehearsal edition is already boxed up and sitting in bookstores, waiting for their official release.

Scholastic, the company that published all of Rowling's "Harry Potter" books, is publishing the script versions of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child." They only got the rehearsal version of the play themselves around the same time that previews started, so the book's production process has been accelerated. And even though the play is being staged in two parts, Scholastic is publishing it in one volume.

Ellie Berger, who oversees the division of Scholastic that publishes the book, says all of the play's changes will be reflected in the definitive edition, but she says she doesn't expect it to have annotations comparing the minute differences — that'll be up to the fans to spot.

"When you read the script, you’re revisiting and learning about new characters who are familiar in many ways," Berger said. "It’s incredibly thrilling to see how she’s taken the story further."

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J.K. Rowling is about to have another bestseller on her hands, with the July 31 release of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."

In fact, the book — which is actually the script of the two-part London play she wrote with Jack Thorne and John Tiffany — hasn't even been released yet, but it's already the bestselling book of the year on Amazon based on pre-orders alone.

The play follows an adult Potter and his son Albus as they navigate a post-Voldemort world with friends and family.

But before J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series became a commercial and critical hit — spawning films, spinoffs, and the new play — that turned her into a literary superstar, Rowling was struggling to make Potter's story come to fruition.

Her manuscript was rejected by 12 different publishing houses before she finally found a publisher. But even with the incredibly successful "Harry Potter" franchise under her belt, one of Rowling's newer manuscripts was also recently denied.

In March 2016, the author took to Twitter to talk about rejection and share some photos of rejection letters she received for her 2013 novel "The Cuckoo's Calling," which she wrote under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She offered the rejection notices for "inspiration, not revenge" and masked the signatures.

In a letter from Constable & Robinson, a representative wrote that the company couldn't publish the novel "with commercial success" and offered tips for publishing and said that "vital information" could be found in "The Writer's Handbook."

The novel was eventually published and has since spawned a series of its own.

Rowling revealed that she pinned her first rejection letter to her kitchen wall, but she didn't share any "Harry Potter" rejections because they are in a box in her attic.

She added that one of the publishers that rejected "Harry Potter" sent a rude rejection for "Galbraith" as well.

But, she said, she had to persevere, and it all paid off in the end — quite literally.

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The summer has seen a lot of sequels, and to the chagrin of Hollywood execs, many are bombing at the box office.

Analysts are crying sequel fatigue, but studios trying to bank on franchises isn't new. They're just doing it a lot more frequently and with titles people care way less about seeing.

In looking at Box Office Mojo's ranking of some of the top-grossing franchises adjusted for inflation, it's clear that pursuing sequels has always been a roller-coaster ride. Business Insider selected 15 franchises — the dominating fantasies as well as some animation, action, and horror — from the top 100.

Of those 15, only three — "Toy Story,""Lord of the Rings," and "Captain America"— have seen growth with every installment. (The same can't be said for "Iron Man," Marvel's other major solo character series.) Every other franchise lacks a pattern, except that it seems "Fast and Furious" reached a positive turning point in 2009 and that no one wants more "Scream" movies at this point.

See how your favorite franchise did over its lifetime:

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When a Harry Potter–obsessed dad in Illinois found out his wife was pregnant, he knew one thing for sure: He wanted to create a mini wizarding world for his future son. 

Today, that baby is 7 months old — and every night, he goes to sleep in the ultimate Harry Potter nursery. (Also, he might be the world's most adorable infant.)

“My husband knew right when we were pregnant that he wanted to do a Harry Potter nursery," the baby's mom, Kaycee, told BuzzFeed. "At first I wasn’t sure, to be honest, but after him showing me some ideas, I came around.”

“I am so glad in the end that I came around to the idea,” Kaycee said. “I walk into the room every morning and I still can’t believe it is in our house!”

Here's what the room looks like:

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Harry Potter fans have yet another reason to rejoice.

With the arrival of J.K Rowling's newest addition to the "Harry Potter" series — the "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"play and accompanying book — comes another opportunity for kids to learn valuable life skills.

Apart from the facts that the "Harry Potter" series has reached more people than any other book series in history and inspired an entire generation to read, Adam Grant, a professor of managementat Wharton and author of "Originals," tells Business Insider that J.K. Rowling is perhaps the most influential person alive because of what her books teach kids: originality and morality.

When Business Insider spoke to Grant, who has a Ph.D. in organizational psychology, earlier this year, he said:

"There's a good deal of evidence that we can predict the innovation rates in a culture — even something as specific as patent rates — by looking at children's literature. Countries that end up innovating 20 to 30 years later are the ones where kids are reading about unique accomplishments — where childhood role models in stories do things that have never been done before.

"And there's a lot of originality in the 'Harry Potter' stories: The way to get to Hogwarts, all of the different ideas about how to cast spells, children being the individuals who are responsible for saving adults — all of that is setting a standard for saying, 'I want to do something new.'"

Grant also points to research that suggests the books could teach kids how to be more empathetic and less prejudiced.

"As you learn about muggles and how they're looked down upon by wizards, you actually generalize that to other groups and say, 'You know, maybe we should not stereotype people or discriminate against them based on something they have no control over whatsoever,'" Grant explains.

"Ms. Rowling, the world would be a better place if you kept writing 'Harry Potter' books,"he writes on Quora. Thankfully, she seems to be taking that advice to heart.

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On a delayed train journey from Manchester to King's Cross station in London, the characters Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger came "fully formed" to the mind of a young temp named Joanne Rowling.

In the six tumultuous years following, she would imagine an entire magical world of witches and wizards, assume the pen name J.K. Rowling, and publish "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," the first novel in the now beloved "Harry Potter" series.

Rowling has since become the UK's best-selling living author, her books have brought in more than $25 billion and sold more copies than any other book series, and the newest installment in the story, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,"is already a best-selling book— but not before Rowling had to overcome the hardships of rejection and being a single mother living on welfare.

Here's an inside look at how Rowling went from living on welfare to becoming one of the world's top-earning authors:

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Born in the southwest of England, Rowling grew up along the border of England and Wales with her mother, father, and sister. She's said that she had always known she would be a book author. "As soon as I knew what writers were, I wanted to be one. I've got the perfect temperament for a writer; perfectly happy alone in a room, making things up." She wrote her first book (about a rabbit named Rabbit) at age six, and when her mother praised her work, she says she "stood there and thought, 'Well, get it published then.'"

Source: JKRowling.com

Rowling's teenage years weren't particularly happy, she told The New Yorker, claiming she came from a difficult family and saying her mother's 10-year battle with multiple sclerosis took a toll on her and the family. "You couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it," she told The Guardian.

Source: The New Yorker, The Guardian

Rowling said she "couldn't wait to get out" of her house. After studying French and classics at Exeter University, she went to work for Amnesty International in London as a researcher, among other jobs. It was during this time on a train journey from Manchester to her job in London that she began writing her "Harry Potter" series.

Source: The Guardian

Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child." 

"Harry Potter" fans are in a tizzy about J.K. Rowling's latest story set in the wizarding world. The play script for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"— co-authored with Jack Thorne and John Tiffany — was released on July 31. The play contains a controversial new character: Voldemort's daughter.

Readers are introduced to a young woman, about 22 years old, named Delphi Diggory. She meets young Albus Potter and leads him to believe she is the niece of Amos Diggory, and cousin to the long-dead Cedric Diggory. 

But in the play's third act, Delphi reveals herself to be the daughter of Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange. Fans were shocked, to say the least.

People even compared the plot twist to poor fan fiction.

"I too felt like the whole thing read like a cringey fanfic," Redditor gvalchca wrote in the "Harry Potter" subreddit. "I can only assume it was not [Rowling's] writing on the whole [...] Voldemort having a child? No-ho-hooo way."

According to Delphi, Bellatrix Lestrange was pregnant with Delphi in the year before the great Battle of Hogwarts. She gave birth in the Malfoy's manor house, which was being used as headquarters for Death Eaters at the time. After both Bellatrix and Voldemort were killed at Hogwarts, baby Delphi was given to Euphemia Rowle — the relative of another Death Eater killed in a battle named Thorfinn.

Delphi was raised by the Rowle family and hidden from the general wizarding community. She never attended Hogwarts but she learned powerful magic anyway. She is capable of flying without a broomstick and speaking Parseltongue — just like Voldemort. 

She uses magic to make the elderly Amos Diggory believe that she is his niece, and then ingratiates herself with Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy in order to get her hands on a Time-Turner. Delphi's sole mission is to go back in time and change events so that her father, Lord Voldemort, lives again.

The comparison of this plotline to fan fiction stems from a few different places. First, reworking character stories from the original seven books into romances is very common in "Harry Potter" fan fiction. Pairings like Draco and Hermione or Snape and Voldemort (yes, you read that right) have made star appearances in fan's reimaginings of the plot.

But there's more to it than the retroactive creation of romance between Voldemort and Bellatrix. Many fans used to believe that Voldemort was disinterested in love or sex. 

"Sex is a basic human need, and Voldemort wanted to distance himself from being human as much as possible," Sandhya Ramesh wrote in a popular Quora thread two years ago. "He would abhor the physical union of a man and a woman's body (or a man and a man's)."

People are also confused by how Bellatrix's pregnancy works into the published story of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." She must have been pregnant and gave birth right before the Battle of Hogwarts, but readers saw Bellatrix throughout Deathly Hallows and there doesn't seem to be a stretch of nine months when she was hidden and growing baby Delphi.

Plus, it's rather incredulous that Draco Malfoy wouldn't have known about Bellatrix being pregnant when they were living in the same house that entire time.

Whether you're a "Harry Potter" fan who enjoyed the new Voldemort love life twist or a disappointed reader, one this is certain — almost no one saw this coming.

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WARNING: Major spoilers ahead for "Harry Potter and The Cursed Child."

This weekend, thousands of "Harry Potter" fans around the world eagerly waited in line at bookstores or downloaded a copy of J.K. Rowling's new "Harry Potter and The Cursed Child" script to their Kindles.

And while there are doubtless numerous fans who were thrilled to see Harry and his best friends back at it again trying to save the world, some aspects of the plot are like something out of fan fiction.

Rowling previously begged fans and viewers to not tell any spoilers, but everyone is talking about the wild twists and turns in "Cursed Child." If you do not want to know the plot, do not keep reading.

Last chance to head back before spoilers.

You were warned.

The general sketch of the play is that it involves time travel and centers around Albus Severus Potter, the middle child of Harry and Ginny, who becomes best friends with Draco Malfoy’s son, Scorpius.

Here are the major plot points:

1. Albus and Scorpius become best friends after they’re sorted into Slytherin together. Hermione and Ron’s daughter Rose is friends with Albus, and upset when he’s sorted into Slytherin. She’s sorted into Gryffindor.

2. Albus and Scorpius are both outcasts at Hogwarts. Albus is mocked for being the son of the great Harry Potter, but for being sorted into Slytherin. Scorpius is mocked because there are rumors that Draco went back in time and had his wife Astoria conceive their son with Voldemort. Yes, really!

3. Back at home, Hermione is the Minister for Magic, while Harry is the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Ron runs the Weasley joke shop along with George.

4. Cedric Diggory’s father Amos begs Harry to go back in time to save Cedric’s life by using a conveniently found Time-Turner that was never destroyed. Harry refuses, but Albus and Scorpius are convinced by Amos’ niece Delphi to help. They steal the Time-Turner.

5. Albus and Scorpius ditch Hogwarts and journey back to the events of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" to stop Cedric from winning the tournament with Harry so he’s no longer killed. They stop Cedric from winning the first event, but when they go back to the future, Rose was never born and Ron and Hermione never got married.

6. The pair decide to go back again to re-try to re-fix the past, but their continued meddling ends up having effects on the future so that by the time they come back to present day Professor Umbridge is the headmistress of Hogwarts, Harry is dead (and Albus ceases to exist), and Voldemort won the Battle of Hogwarts.

7. In this new world, Cedric Diggory has become a Death Eater and killed Neville. Snape is still alive and Scorpius convinces him that he’s from an alternate universe and needs Snape's help. Scorpius also convinces Ron and Hermione (who are now fugitives) to help and after a lot of close encounters with Dementors and Death Eaters (that don't end so well for alt-universe Ron, Hermione, or Snape), Scorpius is able to fix the past mistakes and use the Time-Turner to come back to the present.

8. When he returns, everything is the same and Albus is back. Scorpius tells Harry, Ginny, Draco, Albus, and McGonagall what happened and that the Time-Turner was lost in the Hogwarts lake.

9. Secretly, Scorpius tells Albus the Time-Turner wasn’t destroyed and they should destroy it themselves. For some reason, Albus also decides to tell Delphi what happened, but instead of helping them destroy the Time-Turner, she takes it and reveals she’s not really Amos’ niece (she had him under the Imperius Curse the whole time), but Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange’s daughter.

10. Delphi takes all three of them back to the time Harry’s parents were killed. Scorpius and Albus escape from her and are able to send a message back to present day Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, and Draco that they’re in trouble by burning a message into Harry’s childhood blanket.

11. The adults come back in time with a Time-Turner Draco had kept from his father, and after a few duels and near death encounters, they save the day and everything goes back to normal.

The End.

Though some fans are upset with the play’s use of time travel, the reviews from the majority of the people who saw "The Cursed Child" in action were very positive.

Business Insider UK’s Barbara Tasch was lucky enough to see the play live, and wrote: "The play struck the right balance really gripping the audience in the new story and developing the new characters, while at the same time answering some burning questions about the original story and shedding light on past issues that directly influenced the outcome of the new play."

It sounds like to fully enjoy "Cursed Child," you really do just have to be there. 

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This post contains spoilers for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."

In "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," the new play  co-written by J.K. Rowling set 19 years after the last "Harry Potter" novel, we have a new villain. Delphi is the daughter of Lord Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange, and she wants to change the past so that her father can rule the world.

But where was Delphi for the past couple of decades? Apparently, she spent her early years under the care of Euphemia Rowle.

We know about the Rowle name because of Thorfinn Rowle, one of the Death Eaters who pledged allegiance to Voldemort. We also know the Rowle name is one of the so-called "Sacred Twenty-Eight" pure-blood families, meaning they supposedly aren't descended from any Muggles.

But Euphemia Rowle doesn't show up in ANY of the "Harry Potter" novels. But she does show up in one place: a fanfiction written by someone who seems to be named Alison S. Green, posting under the name notwilde on InsaneJournal.

As far as I can tell, the name doesn't show up anywhere else on the internet, even though "Cursed Child" has been in previews on stage in London for weeks.

There's a lot of "Harry Potter" fan fiction out there. It's cool, but not that crazy that someone came up with the same character name as J.K. Rowling. But what makes it eerie is that the details of Rowling's Euphemia Rowle and the details of the fan fiction's Euphemia Rowle totally match up. 

The fan fiction comes in the form of a character sketch of a (also made-up) Death Eater named Oscar Robert Ketteridge. He graduated from Hogwarts (Slytherin) in 1965, and married Euphemia Rowle a few years later. He fell in with Voldemort while pursuing her:

He always leaned more toward the society side of his ancestry, however, fascinated by blood purity, magical history, and, as his reputation grew, Lord Voldemort. It was his relationship with Euphemia that lead him to the Dark Lord, however inadvertently. When he was courting her, he was intent on making a good impression on her father, Acastus, and some of his honest beliefs concerning Muggles, Muggleborns, and blood shone through.

Euphemia graduated in 1967, which puts her in her 30s when Voldemort was at the height of his power. It also means she was rather old when raising Delphi, which makes sense. Delphi made Euphemia sound like a neglectful guardian who had better things to do than take care of a child: "She didn’t like me much," Delphi said. "Euphemia Rowle . . . she only took me in for the gold."

It's hard to tell when exactly the fan fiction was posted. The post date was manually changed to the year 2020. But the book version of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" came out just hours ago, as of writing, and it's unlikely that the author wrote such an extensive fan fiction in that amount of time.

It's possible that Green saw the play's previews and then wrote her fan fiction. However, at the bottom of the post, she notes that her writing used little information from the "Harry Potter" canon and is instead "OC," or "original content."

We have reached out to Green for comment and will update this post when we hear back.

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Warning: This post contains spoilers for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."

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In "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"— the play set in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" universe 19 years after the events of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,"which is now available as a book— Hermione Granger is the Minister for Magic.

Much of the play focuses on Albus Potter (Harry Potter's son), Scorpius Malfoy (Draco's son), and Harry himself. We don't get to spend a whole lot of time with Ron and Hermione — at least not as much as we did in Rowling's novels.

But a good way to learn about a person is by looking at their books, and we can learn a whole lot by looking at Hermione's bookshelf in her Ministry office.

We get to see the bookshelf when Albus, Scorpius, and a new character named Delphi take Polyjuice Potion to transform into Harry, Ron, and Hermione, in order to sneak into Hermione's office to steal a time turner. Here are the books they find in her library:

• "Magick Moste Evile" by Godelot
• "Fifteenth Century Fiends"
• "Sonnets of a Sorcerer"
• "Shadows and Spirits"
• "The Nightshade Guide to Necromancy"
• "The True History of the Opal Fire"
• "The Imperius Curse and How to Abuse It"
• "My Eyes and How to See Past Them" by Sybill Trelawney
• "Dominating Dementors: A True History of Azkaban"
• "The Heir of Slytherin"
• "Marvolo: The Truth"

Notice anything about them? Yeah, they're all about dark magic.

"Magick Moste Evile" first comes up in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," which Hermione checks out to find out about Horcruxes. "Fifteenth-Century Fiends" appeared in the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts library in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Ron cites "Sonnets of a Sorcerer" as an example of a dangerous book in "Chamber of Secrets," to dissuade Harry from using Tom Riddle's diary. And "The True History of the Opal Fire" may be an obscure reference to the cursed opal necklace from Borgin and Burkes in "Chamber of Secrets," which nearly kills Katie Bell in "Half-Blood Prince."

The other books don't appear in the rest of the "Harry Potter" series, but based on their titles, it's clear that they're about dark magic or the history of dark magicians.

So what does that say about Hermione? That she knows how to study the enemy, and that she's still smart enough not to give up.

When Hermione first read "Magick Moste Evile," she found it impenetrable and nearly useless. As Rowling writes in "Half-Blood Prince:"

"I haven’t found one single explanation of what Horcruxes do!" she told him. "Not a single one! I’ve been right through the restricted section and even in the most horrible books, where they tell you how to brew the most gruesome potions — nothing! All I could find was this, in the introduction to 'Magick Moste Evile' — listen — 'Of the Horcrux, wickedest of magical inventions, we shall not speak nor give direction. …' I mean, why mention it then?" she said impatiently, slamming the old book shut; it let out a ghostly wail. "Oh, shut up," she snapped, stuffing it back into her bag.

But later, in "Tales of Beedle the Bard" Dumbledore tells us that the book's author, Godelot, was a powerful wizard who owned the Elder Wand and that "Magick Moste Evile" was a landmark work of dark magic.

And the only book on her shelf that isn't about evil is Trelawney's book, "My Eyes and How to See Past Them." Hermione hated Trelawney, and thought the whole idea of divination — seeing into the future — was bunk magic.

But even though those books were useless to her, she went out of her way to get them on her shelves.

That's because she knew that just because something doesn't click the first time, or just because you disagree with ideas, doesn't mean you can't learn from them.

The books also may serve a more specific, practical purpose.

In "Cursed Child," Harry is the head of Magical Law Enforcement, or the Auror Office. He's dashing about the wizarding world, scrubbing away the remainders of Voldemort's footprints.

But while he may be a good field officer, he's bad at paperwork. When Hermione visits his office in an earlier scene, she chides him for ignoring the piles of briefs on his desk, saying that within that literature there may be clues that can help him track down dark magicians.

From the previous "Harry Potter" books, the head of Magical Law Enforcement seemed like the #2 position in the Ministry of Magic. For example: Kingsley Shacklebolt, a head auror, later became the Minister for Magic himself. It looks like the Minister for Magic's office and the Auror Office work together closely.

Hermione seems to be the research part of that equation. While Harry's off on missions taking down the bad guys and doing field work, Hermione is doing the book-reading, figuring out the enemy.

It's just like the old "Harry Potter" books. Harry and Hermione would be nothing without each other.

(Ron, on the other hand, is running Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes.)

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J.K. Rowling says she's done writing "Harry Potter" books.

Speaking at the premiere of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," Rowling said this is Harry's last adventure.

"He goes on a very big journey during these two plays and then, yeah, I think we're done,"she said according to The Independent. "This is the next generation, you know. So, I'm thrilled to see it realised so beautifully but, no, Harry is done now.”

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is a play Rowling co-wrote, set 19 years after the events of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." It's now available as a book, which makes it the eighth story in the "Harry Potter" series.

This doesn't rule out more books in the "Harry Potter" universe. Much of "Cursed Child" focuses on Albus Potter, Harry's son, and Scorpius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy's son. We might see more adventures with them.

Rowling also wrote the screenplay for "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," the first in a trilogy of movies set in the "Harry Potter" universe, but several decades before Harry was born, and in America rather than Europe. It's coming out on November 19.

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Warning: Major spoilers ahead for "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."

The eighth "Harry Potter" story is here, but some fans are not happy. Instead of rejoicing in the new material, some readers are choosing to ignore J.K. Rowling's assertion that "Cursed Child" is a continuation of the original seven novels. 

"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is a play — penned by Rowling along with Jack Thorne and John Tiffany — currently only being performed in London. In order to get the story out to a broader audience, the full script for the play was published in book form and released on July 31. 

A group of disillusioned "Harry Potter" fans among those who have either seen the play or read the book version are outright refusing to accept "Cursed Child" as part of the book canon (a term used to assign official status to "Harry Potter" stories). Instead of counting the story as a legitimate part of Harry, Ron, and Hermione's overall fictional lives, these people are writing off "Cursed Child" as a third-party story that doesn't fit with the original plan.

As a longtime "Harry Potter" enthusiast myself, I regretfully agree with the vocal minority who did not enjoy "Cursed Child" and would rather it wasn't part of Harry's story. My colleague and Senior Culture Editor for Tech Insider, Megan Willett, also agrees.

So what happens in "Cursed Child" that has fans so upset? 

Part of the issue stems from the story's origin and the medium in which it is told. "Cursed Child" is not a conventional novel written by J.K. Rowling. Instead, it's a play for which Rowling collaborated with two co-authors: Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. 

Rowling's lack of creative autonomy in the project means that fans can't be sure which parts of the story were her idea — which is cause for some purists to think of the story as a break away from the book canon. The reason this co-authorship can be such a sticking point is that the plot of "Cursed Child" is so outrageous to certain fans that it reads as fan fiction.

We've written a synopsis of all the main plot points in case you need a refresher (or want spoilers). But the biggest issue people have with the story is the new character Delphi — the secret daughter of Lord Voldmort and Bellatrix Lestrange. 

Aside from the unbelievable nature of Voldemort and Bellatrix having a secret sexual relationship, Delphi's character rings false compared to Rowling's rich cast of witches and wizards. This may very well be due to the fact "Cursed Child" is not a fully fleshed out novel and therefore readers aren't given as much time on character development. 

But there's another big issue readers have with the plot of "Cursed Child," and that's the issue of time travel. The story focuses on Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy, the children of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy respectively, as they decide to help Delphi use a Time-Turner to save Cedric Diggory. Yeah, Cedric Diggory, a character who died at the hands of Voldemort in the fourth "Harry Potter" book. Eventually, Delphi reveals that her plan all along was to alter the past in order to make Voldemort, her father, alive again in the present day. 

This is not how Time-Turners worked in the original canon— one more reason "Cursed Child" feels disconnected from the original "Harry Potter" novels.

In the books, Time-Turners work in a causal loop — meaning the things wizards do while using them were always part of the timeline. Suddenly in "Cursed Child," Time-Turners enable wizards to create alternate timelines and change the future by meddling with other things in the past. This approach to time travel is more of the "butterfly effect" method, and it's much harder for readers to get their minds around. Not to mention it opens the story up to have a lot of plotholes.

Early reviews from those lucky enough to see the play in person were overwhelmingly positive, leaving some people with the impression that you have to be there in order to "get" the story. Discussion of "Cursed Child" on the official Harry Potter subreddit has a mixed batch of reviews.

"Am I the only one who's trying to convince myself to love this book but finding it insanely hard?" asked Redditor marauderer. "It's like [Rowling] tried to compile every single scenario she wished she had written into one play that lacked character/relationship development. And although I'm sure that it is spectacular on stage, it is quite literally impossible for me to go see it and so this is my only alternative and I am, quite frankly, disappointed."

But in the same discussion thread, a group of readers didn't understand the hate. "I for one enjoyed it," Redditor Hvammer wrote. "I get all the reasons that people aren't into it but I found it enjoyable overall and am fine with it, to be honest, yeah," replied methodandred.

For me, someone who has read the original "Harry Potter" books dozens of times and obsessed over every chapter and character and lines, "Cursed Child" fell flat. I felt none of the magic of Rowling's usual storytelling, and was jarred by the constant references to the original series done in a very fan-servicey way. I could spend an exorbitant amount of time detailing each gripe, but for now I will just say that "Cursed Child" missed the mark.

The next time I set out to do a re-read of the series, it will end with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." Then all will be well.

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