The leads for Harry Potter and The Cursed Child have been announced with Jaime Parker, Paul Thornley, and Noma Dumezweni taking on the roles of Harry, Ron, and Hermione respectively.

(L-R_ Paul Thornley ("Ron Weasley"), Noma Dumezweni ("Hermione Granger") and Jamie Parker ("Harry Potter") will star in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

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"Canon: brown eyes, frizzy hair and very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione."

Written by Jack Thorne, from a new story from Harry Potter creator J. K. Rowling, Thorne and director John Tiffany, the play will be divided into two parts and follow the gang, now in their 30s, nineteen years after they defeated Voldemort, with Harry trying to juggle his work at the Ministry of Magic with his family duties while his son Albus struggles with being the child of The Boy Who Lived.Mainly known for his British stage work, Parker was one of the original, Tony-award winning History Boys and has been in a number of Shakespeare adaptations.Taking on Ron, Thornley may be most familiar to gamers as the English voice of Olgierd von Everec, Geralt of Rivia's haunted frenemy in The Witcher 3's Hearts of Stone expansion. Dumezweni won an Olivier Award for her role in the play A Raisin In The Sun. She also appeared in Doctor Who during David Tennant's run as Captain Erisa Magambo in the episodes Turn Left and Planet of the Dead.Directed by John Tiffany and debuting at the Palace Theatre in London's West End in May , the play has already broken records with more than 250,000 tickets sold. While we aren't sure how many sickles and galleons that translates to, the amount could certainly buy a Nimbus 2000 or ten.With some fans complaining about a black actress playing Hermione (who was played by a white actress, Emma Watson, in the Potter films), J.K. Rowling made it clear it doesn't matter to her, nor does it deviate from anything she wrote in the original books, tweeting , after being asked what she thought: