No, J.K. Rowling isn’t writing another 'Harry Potter' book — but you should still be excited

On February 10, “Harry Potter” fans got perhaps the best news of their lives — J.K. Rowling was coming out with another installment of her classic series concerning The Boy Who Lived.

It would be the eighth story about Harry Potter and take place directly after the epilogue of the last book, “Deathly Hallows.” The internet blew up as people wrote about Rowling’s new “book.”

The only problem? It’s not a book at all, but a script of her upcoming play, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” A point which the author quickly took to Twitter to correct:

Rowling assured her fans not only is it not a prequel — a refrain we’ve heard from the author before— but that it will simply be a book version of her upcoming London play’s script and not another novel about the wizarding world.

Though it may not be the type of book some fans were hoping for, it is a wonderful alternative for anyone who can’t afford a trip to London or didn’t get tickets to the two-part “Cursed Child” play.

And to be fair, this is not the first play script to become a widely read book. Tony Kushner’s two-part play “Angels in America” won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, and is now sold in book form, as well.

Either way, we can’t wait to read it.

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