Book Club Hosts Harry Potter Themed Event

Book club is hosting an event “The Cursed Child” by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany at the Barnes and Noble on Rochester Road. It starts at 1 p.m. on Nov. 19 and ends at 3 p.m. Everyone is invited to come and celebrate the new play.
“I expected it to be more of a book when I first saw it, but as a play it worked,” sophomore Dylan Thomas said. “You could understand everything. It made sense,”
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child takes place around twenty years after the last book leaves off. It doesn’t really focus on Harry Potter and his friends, but more on his son Albus, and the son of Draco Malfoy, Scorpius, who is ironically Albus’ best friend.
“I thought it was a really good screenplay and the characters were amazingly done,” sophomore Irie Dubay said.
There will be multiple events taking place, including Wizard’s Chess. Wizard’s Chess, in the books, is a game that wizards frequently play. The board is enchanted so the pieces move on their own. In our version, you can play as a piece while the chess team tells you where to move.
“It is going to be amazing. We’re doing it with some of the guys from the chess team, so it’s basically book club and chess team combined,” senior Jared Lipinski, president of the book club, said.
There will be wand making for the little kids and a costume contest. A percentage of the purchases made at the event will go to the school library to buy more books.
“I think this is a great idea because it will raise a lot of awareness for book club and even some for chess team,” Lipinski said.
Lipinski has been a part of book club for four years now. He was introduced when one of his friends brought him to the library while a meeting was going on.
“I really love reading and book club is really good because you find a lot of like-minded people and also a lot of unlike-minded people and it’s fun to talk to them,” Lipinski said. “It’s sort of like a community-family thing,” Lipinski said
Dylan Thomas has only just joined this year.
“When I got there it was less reading. It was more like casual talking.”Said Thomas. “Talking about what good books we saw, or just telling jokes and stuff. It was the people that kept me there.”