BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL Everybody gets older – including The Boy Who Lived. He’s returned to us with great fanfare in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – packaged as a book, film series and London stage play, with talks of moving to Broadway. The eighth chapter of his story is set nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts. Harry is now a grown man with a daily grind job at the Ministry of Magic, a Quidditch correspondent wife, and three school-age children; the youngest of whom is struggling to live up to his family name — or, actually, downplay it. Lots of enchantment still ensues, and both father and son learn an unfortunate truth: sometimes, not only does darkness come, but it comes from unexpected places.
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