After a hiatus of a few years, J.K. Rowling came with the next in the Harry Potter franchise – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. This is not a novel but a play, unlike all the other Harry Potter stories. Based on the story by J. K. Rowling and dramatised by her, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne.

The play opens quite few years down the line from where we left Harry and his triumph over the Dark Lord Voldemort. Harry is now 37 years old, married to Ginny Weasley and has three children and is the head of Unlawful Use of Magic in the Ministry of Magic, while Hermione is married to Ron Weasley and is the Minister of Magic. The play is essentially about Harry's second son Albus as he goes to Hogwarts and surprise of surprise becomes the best friend of Scorpio, the son of Draco Malfoy, who was Harry’s sworn enemy when they were at Hogwarts.

What follows is classic Rowling. With Albus, following his father’s propensity for saving the world and putting things right, launching into an adventure replete with time turning, alternate realities, danger, spells and magic, Dementors, the Tri Wizard Tournament, in the background of Hogwarts. An adventure in which not only Albus and Scorpio but even Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco and Ginny have to take part to defeat the machinations of the Dark Lord even from his grave.

Here Rowling is in her elements. Unlike her foray into crime novels in the Strike series she wrote under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith. A must for all Potter fans, the young and the young at heart.