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With the most recent installment in the HP franchise, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, fans have buckled down on their criticism that Rowling and her collaborators haven’t done enough to bring modern progressive representation to Harry’s vast magical world. In the year 2016, however, nearly a decade after the outing of Dumbledore and almost 20 years after the publication of the very first Harry Potter book, the world of Harry Potter still looks and feels exactly like it did when Harry first entered Hogwarts: nearly all white and rigidly heteronormative. "If I had known this would have made you this happy," she said, "I would have announced it years ago." The audience immediately leapt to its feet and roared its approval. Rowling casually tossed off one of the biggest announcements in the history of her landmark fantasy phenomenon: Dumbledore, Harry’s mentor and the greatest wizard in the world until his dramatic death in book six, was gay. Some fans have taken to Amazon's reviews section, meanwhile, to complain about Cursed Child 's script format, apparently believing that they were purchasing a new novel from Rowling.In October 2007, at a rare appearance at a packed Carnegie Hall, Harry Potter author J.K.
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(See Newsweek 's review of the play here. While book sales for Harry Potter are as healthy as ever, reviews for the script release have been more mixed many critics believe it would be better to see the script come to life on stage rather than read the action being described in rather insular theatrical terms. That is an enchanting amount but still pales in comparison to the 8.3 million copies Deathly Hallows sold in just 24 hours in America. Publisher Scholastic reported sales of two million in the first two days of release, says The Hollywood Reporter.
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Over in the U.S., Potter -mania was equally as fervent. There's no doubt about it this will be our biggest book of the year." "By the end of this first week, we expect to exceed The Lost Symbol sales and to match the lifetime sales of our bestselling script book ever, An Inspector Calls by J. bookstore chain Waterstones, said: "Our sales for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child script book have been phenomenal we saw our biggest first day figures since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released in 2007 and after just two days' sales Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is already our biggest-selling hardback since Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol in 2009. The success of Cursed Child comes nine years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rowling's final novel in the magical series, sold 1.8 million copies in its first week in July 2007, according to The Bookseller. That is enough to make it the fastest-selling book of the decade, beating the previous bestseller, Fifty Shades of Grey, which sold 664,478 copies in its first week on shelves. In the U.K., Cursed Child sold 680,000 copies in its first three days on sale, according to publisher Little, Brown. Rowling and billed as the eighth Harry Potter story, was released Sunday and immediately broke records-nine years after the last book. Keep the secrets, no more: the script for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the new London stage play co-written by J.K.