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JK Rowling pleads for Harry Potter secrets

The author took to Twitter to ask audiences to keep the secrets for ”Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”

JK Rowling
JK Rowling in the video released by producers
JK Rowling has asked Harry Potter fans to keep the new show's secrets.

Ahead of the first preview of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child this week, Rowling took to Twitter to ask audiences not to let the secrets of the new play out.

She said: "Today I'm asking you to #KeepTheSecrets of #CursedChild…. This isn't about ticket sales: we've been sold out for ages… We simply want everyone who's bought a ticket to #CursedChild to enjoy the onstage surprises."

In a video released on the Cursed Child website, Rowling again asks "amazing" fans, to "let audiences enjoy Cursed Child with all the surprises we have built into the story."

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2016

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2016

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2016

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2016

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2016

Watch the short video in full here

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child runs at the Palace Theatre from 7 June with an opening night on July 31.