
Ten years ago, the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child first opened in London. J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, called it “the eighth story,” and it picks up right after the end of Deathly Hallows. The play follows Albus Severus Potter, Harry’s second son, during his first year at Hogwarts, and shows what’s happened with other favorite characters a decade later. The story is similar to It’s a Wonderful Life because it uses time travel to explore how different choices could have changed everything. When it first launched in the UK, The Cursed Child was very long—it was performed in two parts with a long break in between—but that’s now being changed.