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He resisted because of his disdain for rock ‘n’ roll books: “To me, they all have the same story arc and only the names change.”

In the story arc we have reached the Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows, the finale of which will determine the appetite for a Cursed Child stage show.

“So we’re trying to bring a lot of theatrical elements and story arc and all those things that involve the crowd, the participants, to really get involved in what they’re seeing.”

Thankfully, the story arc is designed so that chaos keeps barging in, most delightfully in the form of a scene stealer named ParTeb, a goofball from Tunisia who presents as a saucy green alien.

"When I first wrote the story of Seasons 2 and 3 it was one long story arc," he told Variety.