Today, the advance ticket sales for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child had Potter fans in an uproar. We admit it, we may or may not have cursed some children ourselves.
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Update: Over 175,000 tickets were sold in the first eight hours, according to a press release. Wow!
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Congratulations to everyone who secured their tickets for next summer’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child performance in London.
And condolences to everyone who — like this writer, at the present moment — is still stuck somewhere around here:
As everyone who woke up bright and early this morning to book tickets for the two-part Harry Potter play set to continue Harry’s story knows, the queue placement for advance booking was random, and unfortunately, ticket hoarders had just as good of a chance to buy tickets as hardcore fans.
Related: Dear J.K. Rowling: Please make The Cursed Child available to all
Naturally, the waiting period led to some frustration and outrage on Twitter as people grew more and more desperate. A prime example:
Oh this is going well! #TheCursedChild pic.twitter.com/ducCkqzATo
— Andrew Sims (@sims) October 28, 2015
@JK_Rowling can you please deliver me a bagel with cream cheese i am starving as i sit here waiting for tickets
— Andrew Sims (@sims) October 28, 2015
I guess I’m just not going back to bed.
Feeling like the #CursedChild at the moment.
— Andrew Sims (@sims) October 28, 2015
While we continue to wait, let’s take a look at some of the best reactions, both good and bad, to this intense Harry Potter queuing experience:
I believe I'm now in line to see the play with my grandkids in 2040. #CursedChild
— Tracy Hahn-Burkett (@THahnBurkett) October 28, 2015
Nervous as hell over #CursedChild! One minute to go! Good luck, everyone ?
— Donya (@virtual_don) October 28, 2015
I AM LIKE NUMBER 20,000 IN THE QUEUE FOR CURSED CHILD. I DIDN'T GET A HARRY POTTER TATTOO FOR THIS. this is my Azkaban
— skeLexton (@lexcanroar) October 28, 2015
#CursedChild queue got me like pic.twitter.com/iPyHxIrOel
— Dany Vasquez (@danyvasquez_) October 28, 2015
#CursedChild opening. Curtain rises. Rowling is onstage laughing maniacally covered in money. "If my story is a world, then a god am I." Fin
— Robert Manion (@robertmanion) October 28, 2015
I'm now watching @amy_alward's Cursed Child tickets queue while she gets a coffee. The responsibility is crushing.
— Kim Curran (@KimeCurran) October 28, 2015
"It's been a few hours since you failed to get priority booking for #CursedChild. Has the misery worn off?"
Me: pic.twitter.com/cVNk9BZJ2u
— Liz McClendon Hull (@LizMcMedia) October 28, 2015
IT ONLY TOOK ME TWO HOURS BUT IM COMING FOR YOU CURSED CHILD
— remus lupin (@alwaysdragxns) October 28, 2015
Managed to get tickets to #HarryPotter #CursedChild and I'm like pic.twitter.com/TVhmuE6ngf
— Ryan Nelson (@RyanJohnNelson) October 28, 2015
And of course there are people already taking advantage!
"The world isn't split between good people and Death Eaters…….but people who resell their #CursedChild tickets are evil as fuck"
— Beth Maher (@_bethmaher) October 28, 2015
And to all those buying them and selling them at a ridic mark-up…. #CursedChild pic.twitter.com/PgT3GxyHBD
— Harriet Page (@HarrietPage92) October 28, 2015
It seems like lots of people are having problems, too! What a mess.
well nearly 2hrs of waiting wasted – cant select a date #CursedChild
— Ben O'Connell (@oconnellben) October 28, 2015
Have decided I am the #CursedChild as the system wouldn't let me buy the tickets in my basket so am having chocolate to cheer myself up.
— Louisa Gummer (@LouisaGummer) October 28, 2015
Got to my turn for #CursedChild tickets and it said good availability on the day I selected and then it says sold out boo
— rebekah (@heybekkah) October 28, 2015
Damn the #CursedChild ticket website, got to payment page,"an error has occurred" so I'm back in the sodding queue with over an hour's wait
— Laura Keahey (@L0ZZ4) October 28, 2015
Did you get your tickets for ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’?
Here’s everything we know about the Cursed Child so far: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a sequel following Harry and his son Albus