“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” the script for a new London play telling the eighth story in the boy wizard series, has sold more than 2 million copies in its first two days on the market in the United States.
The book – a script instead of a narrative novel like author J.K. Rowling’s previous Potter books – was published at midnight on Sunday, shortly after the play’s gala opening. The play is sold out through May 2017.

“Cursed Child,” written by Rowling, screenwriter and playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany, is set 19 years after “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the final book in the original series, released in 2007. Scholastic, the U.S. and Canadian publisher of “Cursed Child,” said the sales figures were unprecedented for a script book. Prior to its release, Barnes & Noble said “Cursed Child” was the most pre-ordered book since 2007’s “Deathly Hallows.”