![]() ![]() If you put it down, you took the risk of not having it back for the next few days. I remember taking turns with him to read the copy we both shared. “My brother had round glasses and people used to call him Harry Potter – I think my Mum wishes he’d auditioned for the films because she could have retired a lot earlier. I would love to say lots of other people did, but we were quite conspicuous. We brought our own homemade wands and everything. “I actually dressed up to queue at midnight with my best friend (I was Harry and he was Voldemort) to buy the final book. “My Dad read the first book to me at bedtime when I was a kid and I really remember loving Thomas Taylor’s cover illustration of a mischievous Dumbledore at the back and Harry, bewildered by the big, red Hogwarts Express. Harry faces some huge and daunting obstacles, but he doesn’t have to do it alone.” Luke Sumner (Scorpius Malfoy) Yes, there was a lot of darkness and danger in that world, but, as Harry says in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, “I’ve never fought alone you see, and I never will”, and I found that enormously comforting. I found it difficult to read anything new, but the world of Harry Potter was both familiar and comforting to me. But I also re-read them all during that first lockdown of 2020. “I re-read the books during my first rehearsals for the show too, which was helpful. I kept having to pause but I also couldn’t put it down. ![]() I couldn’t read in the car without getting car sick, but I also couldn’t wait to finish the book, so I found a way to lie down on the back seat which meant that I didn’t feel too sick. ![]() I have strong memories of reading one of the books as a passenger on a long car journey. “I probably got into the world of Harry Potter when Prisoner of Azkaban was published. I try to channel the spirit of her when I play Ginny… younger sisters are excellent. “I think my little sister first convinced me to read the books. This world has played such a large part in my life so it really feels like a nice full circle to be pretending to shoot spells out of wands on stage every night, just as I did in my makeshift Hogwarts cloak when I was eleven…” Susie Trayling (Ginny Potter) “I read all of the books again in lockdown and I even had a go at reading them in French (but I only managed to get to La Chambre des Secrets). ![]() He was going through the same difficulties that every child goes through, but he was also having to defeat Voldemort at the same time… which made my problems seem a lot more manageable. “I also read the books at roughly the same age as Harry was in each one, so it really felt like we were growing up together. I was absolutely exhausted but I just couldn’t stop. I would go to bed early and read until my parents told me to go to sleep, then I would read by torchlight until two or three in the morning. I remember reading as fast as I could, just to avoid having it spoiled. I also remember getting into fierce arguments in the playground about who the Half-Blood Prince really was. We were going on holiday the next day and I spent the first two days sat inside devouring the book. “I remember my Dad queueing up for hours outside a supermarket at midnight before the final book was released. My dad and mum read a chapter to me before bed every night, and that’s where this whole thing started for me. “My older brother had a box set of the first four books, so I borrowed the first one from him. From speed-reading over friends’ shoulders at the back of the class to missing your stop on the tube, no one forgets their first trip to Hogwarts… Dominic Short (Albus Potter) Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany’s blockbuster West End show, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, we asked the cast to share their memories of discovering the magic for the first time. With Harry’s legacy now continuing on-stage in J.K. Twenty-five years, seven books and eight film adaptations later, the boy who lived is easily the most famous wizard of all time. Rowling in the early 90s, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published by Bloomsbury in June 1997 on a short run of hardback copies. Dreamt up on a train ride and written by J.K. This summer marks the 25 th anniversary of Harry Potter’s debut in print. On Harry Potter’s 25th anniversary, the West End cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child remember their first time falling in love with the novels that changed the world Interview Harry Potter At 25: The Cast Of The Cursed Child Share Their Memories Of Reading The Books ![]()
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