Look Hermione joins grown-up Harry Potter cast for West End play

Harry shall be played by 36-year-old Jamie Parker, an original member of Alan Bennett’s Historical past Boys cast at the National Theatre, while Paul Thornley has-been cast as Ron Weasley.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play based on an original story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, has chosen the actors that will play the grown-up versions of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley!

The play marks the eight instalment in the Harry Potter series and will begin where the seventh novel left off, with the trio all grown up, married with children who are attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardy. It focuses on the struggles of his son Albus as he grapples with his family’s legacy.

Dumezweni was born in Swaziland to South African parents and moved to England as a child.

The actors are the first to be announced from a cast of more than 30.

Author JK Rowling said: “I’m so excited with the choice of casting for Harry Potter And The Cursed Child”.

In addition, Jamie Parker has been cast as Harry Potter…

In the films, Hermione was played by white actress Emma Watson, so many fans of the Harry Potter books are feeling some way about a black woman playing the literary world’s most overachieving witch, but the Harry Potter series never mentions her skin color, and as one Harry Potter fan notes on Twitter, “the books never talk about her skin, but DID say she had poofy, curly, brown hair”.

Discussing the two-part play, which Rowling sees as the eighth instalment in the franchise, she previously revealed it will follow Harry’s second son Albus, 19 years after the last book. Dumezweni will make her directing debut at the Royal Court Theatre in February with I See You by Mongiwekhaya. Previews begin 7 June 2016 with the Opening performances of Part One and Part Two on Saturday 30 July 2016.

She is a familiar face of London’s West End, now receiving rave reviews for her work in Linda.