The wizard in comeback

So Harry Potter is all grown up, married with a stressful job and three kids, one of whom is apparently cursed.

All the plot needs is for his house price to have been swollen by the ‘engorgio’ spell and it’s the perfect pitch to boomers who didn’t board the Hogwarts’ Express the first seven times around.

It also keeps the franchise going so we can look forward to further instalments like ‘Harry Potter and the Elevated Cholesterol Reading’ and finally, ‘Harry Potter’s Had a Fall’. It will be intriguing to see where the storyline takes us but I will greatly miss Severus Snape (spoiler alert – he died), so brilliantly acted by Alan Rickman (spoiler alert – he died too).

I’m also keen to see if Ron Weasley has fulfilled my prediction of him growing up to be Ed Sheeran. And with the Rio Olympics just around the corner ‘The Cursed Child’ launch has been perfectly timed to support the campaign to include Quidditch at Tokyo in 2020.

Admittedly Quidditch isn’t free from the drugs in sport controversy. Chasing a golden snitch on a flying broomstick strongly suggests that Quidditch was conceived by someone who puffed a lot of huffle back in the day.

But the Quidditch campaigners do have a very compelling slogan: ‘‘Quidditch, at least it’s not synchronized swimming.’’

And if you think the idea of Quidditch at the Olympics is ridiculously far-fetched I have one word for you. Trump. Come to think of it, he’s like a Dementor 2.0, this time feeding on fearful rather then happy emotions but retaining the core characteristic of soul-sucking. Let’s just hope that he proves to be ‘He-who-must-not-be-named’. – @JamesElliott8

Admittedly Quidditch isn’t free from the drugs in sport controversy