‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’: Scholastic sells 2M copies in first 2 days

J.K. Rowling’s eighth and final installment in the Harry Potter series is not cursed at all. In fact, two million copies of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two” script book were sold for the first two days since its release.

According to Scholastic, the two million sales record that only covers North America is “unprecedented for a script book.” The 320-page script book was published on the eve of July 31, coinciding with Rowling’s 51st birthday.

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Rowling co-authored the special rehearsal edition script book with John Tiffany and Jack Throne. The book contains the complete script and stage directions used by the original West End production of the play.

Scholastic reportedly printed 4.5 million copies of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two” script book. While the eighth book puts an epic finale of the Harry Potter book series that made Rowling one of the world’s three highest paid authors, some Pottermaniac fans were disappointed about the book not being a novel.

On Amazon, customers only gave 3.3 stars out of 5 to “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two.”

“I can handle the fact that it's written as a play, I was expecting this. I was fully prepared to accept this. I waited all night for this to be released to my kindle (it's 3 a.m and I've just finished). I sped through the Cursed Child and my final thought was, ‘this was disappointing,’” commented a customer named Brittany, who claimed to have named her children after characters in the Harry Potter series and got three tattoos of Harry Potter.

Another fan identified as K.T. said, “I'm so disappointed. I wanted to love this...I love Harry Potter and everything about the Harry Potter world. I wanted to immerse myself in 320 pages of old friends and new friends and love it. Instead, I put the book down as I finished it and just thought ‘eh.’"

The disappointment may be understandable for Harry Potter fanatics who have been hoping for a sequel since the seventh book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” was published in 2007. But Rowling even clarified that the eight book is a script book as early as February.

The “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” play currently runs in West End theathre in London and producers are planning a Broadway run as well.