--- description: Rowling revealed a very specific detail about the new Harry Potter play title: J.K. Rowling Just Revealed a Very Specific Detail About the Harry Potter Play image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # J.K. Rowling Just Revealed a Very Specific New Detail About the Harry Potter Play by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 21, 2015 3:21 PM CUT by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 21, 2015 3:21 PM CUT There’s still a year before J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter [play](http://www.harrypottertheplaylondon.com/ "undefined") hits London’s West End. And that just means there’s still a year for fans to speculate about _Harry Potter and the Cursed Child_. Rowling’s been very adamant that the play is [not a prequel](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/28/jk-rowling-harry-potter-cursed-child-not-prequel "undefined").(Though the Potter spinoff film [_Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them_](http://time.com/4000164/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-filming-harry-potter-spinoff/ "undefined") is a prequel.) But now there’s new evidence that the ‘cursed child’ could be someone fans are familiar with. > [](https://twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/634665468117274624) That hardly narrows it down, of course. But if anything is certain, Rowling will be giving us more hints and riddles leading up to opening night. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4006299/jk-rowling-harry-potter-play-detail/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4006299/jk-rowling-harry-potter-play-detail/"},"headline":"J.K. Rowling Just Revealed a Very Specific New Detail About the Harry Potter Play","datePublished":"2015-08-21T15:21:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:21:14.792Z","description":"We might already know the 'cursed child' of the title","url":"https://time.com/4006299/jk-rowling-harry-potter-play-detail/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4006299/jk-rowling-harry-potter-play-detail/","name":"J.K. Rowling Just Revealed a Very Specific New Detail About the Harry Potter Play"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"After the Deathly Hallows: Harry Potter Characters 16 Years Later","description":"Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, and Neville are at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. See what they've been up to since they defeated Lord Voldemort.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/CoCYWOyv/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-07-08T19:48:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/CoCYWOyv.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4006299/jk-rowling-harry-potter-play-detail/","duration":"PT1M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4006299/jk-rowling-harry-potter-play-detail/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```