Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Book Release Costumes
Whoa! Harry Potter Fans REALLY Stepped Up Their Costume Game For Cursed Child
If you squinted your eyes (or took off your round, wire-rimmed glasses) earlier this month at the swarms of wizards and witches lining up at bookstores in cities around the world, you might have thought you'd stepped back in time — to 2007, specifically, the last year a book from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series was released, and the last time droves of broom-wielding fans arrived by Floo powder, Portkey, and Apparition to a midnight book launch.
But you haven't been hit in the head by a Bludger. It is, in fact, 2016, and the book Muggles and magic folk alike were lining up for is Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the screenplay considered to be the eighth book in the series. The play, which premiered July 30 in London, is by Jack Thorne, while the story was written in collaboration with J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany. Needless to say, Harry Potter fans are ecstatic about the new book and pulled out all the stops with their wildly creative costumes for the midnight release.
See some of our favorites now (perfect for Halloween inspiration or, you know, casual Friday).
1 Harry Potter Dog
2 Golden Snitch
3 Tonks
4 Hagrid
5 Severus Snape
6 Harry Potter
7 Patronus
8 Luna Lovegood
9 Death Eater
10 Gryffindor Students With Their Hogwarts Letters
11 Albus Dumbledore Chocolate Frog Card
12 Dolores Umbridge and Ron Weasley
13 Ron Weasley in His Dress Robes
14 Harry Potter
15 Draco Malfoy
16 Wendelin the Weird
17 Gryffindor Seeker
18 Rita Skeeter
19 Ginny Weasley
20 Albus Dumbledore
21 Nearly Headless Nick
22 Draco Malfoy
23 Dobby
24 Dementor
25 Have You Seen This Wizard?
26 Professor Trelawney
27 Cornish Pixie
28 Platform 9 3/4
29 Albus Dumbledore
30 Snape and Dumbledore
