Young wizards and witches have long been waiting for a new story to come out of the magical universe J.K. Rowling created with the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s (or Philosopher’s, if you’re in the U.K.) Stone nearly two decades ago.
约二十年前，J.K.罗琳以《哈利波特与魔法石》的发行为起点，开创了一个魔法世界。长久以来，年轻的男巫和女巫们一直对新的魔法故事翘首期待。
This weekend, there’s no more need to practice your accio manuscript spells, as the wait for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be over. Here’s what you need to know about the new story before its July 31 release:
现在，再也不需要练习你们的"手稿召唤咒"了，因为对《哈利波特》系列最新小说《哈利波特与被诅咒的孩子》的等待已经结束。它在7月31号发行了！
下面给你科普和新书有关的重要知识：
This isn’t a new Harry Potter novel — it’s a play script.
这不是一本新的哈利波特小说——它是一个剧本。
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts I and II” is a play currently running in London’s West End. When rumors of an eighth Harry Potter book release started circulating on social media, J.K. Rowling was quick to clarify that the new release would be a script of the London stage production, not a novel
《哈利波特与被诅咒的孩子：第一部分与第二部分》是正在伦敦西区上映的一个舞台剧的剧本。当第8本《哈利波特》发行的流言开始席卷整个社交网络时，J.K.罗琳很快就澄清了即将发行的不是小说，而是伦敦舞台剧创作的脚本。
The play was written by Jack Thorne, a screenwriter and playwright who’s worked on the U.K. series “Skins” and “Shameless.” Thanks to a #KeeptheSecrets campaign led by Rowling, few spoilers have been publicized — so you’ll just have to pick up a copy to see what happens.
这个剧本由杰克·索恩编写。他是一位编剧，也是剧作家，负责了英剧版《皮囊》和《无耻之徒》。由于罗琳（推特上）发起的#KeeptheSecrets（保守住秘密！）活动，（该剧本）在被发行之前，几乎零剧透，所以你需要自己购买一本，看看它到底讲了个什么故事。
The new story picks up after the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
新的故事承接了《哈利波特与死亡圣器》的结局。
Fans will remember that Rowling’s finishing flourish to her seven-book series ― whose final installment was released July 21, 2007 ― saw our faves as married parents 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts and Voldemort’s defeat. Harry and Ginny Weasley were wishing their boy Albus Severus good luck as he boarded the Hogwarts Express with his older brother, James, as Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley sent off their daughter Rose.
《哈利波特》的书迷们依然记得：罗琳为她的七本书挥就的结局——最后一部在2007年7月21号出版发行——我们最爱哈利·波特在霍格沃茨和伏地魔大战，在19年后也结婚生子了。哈利的儿子阿不思·西弗勒斯要和哥哥詹姆斯登上霍格沃茨特快列车之时，哈利和妻子金妮·韦斯利祝他好运，同时赫敏·格兰杰和罗恩·韦斯利也在送别他们的女儿罗斯。
The epilogue felt a little too saccharine for some fans, especially with the neat concluding line, “All was well.” The dark undertones of this latest story seem to suggest that Rowling’s send-off contained more ominous irony than we’d originally thought.
这个结局对于有些书迷而言显得过于美好，特别是配上那句干脆利落的结语：“万事平安。”而《哈利波特与被诅咒的孩子：第一部分与第二部分》中的黑暗色彩，似乎预示着之前那个太美好的结局里包含了很多出乎意料的不祥和反讽。
Your favorite characters will be back, along with some new faces.
你最喜欢的角色会回来，同时也会有一些新面孔。
So Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny have all returned, but so has the complicated villain Draco Malfoy, now father to a young Scorpius. People reported that “major players from the series now all have children heading off to Hogwarts and will be present throughout the play.”
哈利、罗恩、赫敏和金妮都回归了！矛盾复杂的反派角色德拉科·马尔福也回来了，他现在是小斯科皮的父亲。《People》杂志称：“这一系列的主要人物现在都有了自己的孩子，而且他们的孩子都将前往霍格沃茨就读，并会贯穿整个剧情。”
If you can’t make it to the play, there are plenty of ways to get a peek at what the grown-up characters look like.
如果你无法去英国看这部舞台剧，你还有许多其他方式能一睹那些角色长大成人后是何风采。
What does a Ministry-of-Magic-employed Harry Potter look like? Search no further than these cast photos of Harry and Ginny or Ron and Hermione.
被魔法部长录用后的哈利波特是什么样子呢？英大帮你搜寻了长大后“哈利”、“赫敏”、“罗恩”的照片。
丹尼尔·雷德克里夫
长大后的哈利，没有小时候可爱了！
艾玛·沃特森
长大后的赫敏，依旧高颜值高学历
鲁伯特·格林特
长大后的罗恩，似乎没有参加很多影视作品
The revived Harry Potter madness won’t quiet down soon.
再度掀起的《哈利波特》狂潮不会很快降温！
With the November release of “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” a story created from a textbook Rowling penned in 2001 in conjunction with the charity Comic Relief, expect the magic to stick around for quite some time. The film, which follows Newt Scamander in a magical 1920s United States, won’t overlap with the Cursed Child storyline, but will introduce a new world of witches and wizards to Harry Potter fans.
罗琳在2001年与喜剧救济基金会协力创作了一本魔法教科书，11月上映的《神奇生物在哪里》是依据此书创作的故事，期望这阵魔法热潮能够停留相当长的一段时间。这个电影讲述了纽特·斯卡曼德20世纪20年代在美国的魔法冒险，与《被诅咒的孩子》故事线不会有重叠，但是会给哈利波特书迷带来一个全新的巫师和女巫的世界。
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