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'Harry Potter And The Cursed Child' Gives Us A New Harry, Ron, And Hermione

And J.K. Rowling shut down the haters with a perfect tweet, per usual.

After months of waiting, a few of our biggest, burning-est questions about "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" have finally been answered -- with useful information and total awesomeness.

It all started Sunday night (Dec. 20), when the production announced that its main trio of actors had been officially cast: Jamie Parker, Noma Dumezweni and Paul Thornley will star in the West End play next year as Harry, Hermione, and Ron, respectively.

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That solves the main mystery of whether any of the original "Harry Potter" cast members might turn up to revisit their roles onstage, although let's be honest, that was always a long shot. (However, Jamie Parker will bring a certain amount of wizardly experience to his role, having done a turn on the magical drama "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" this year.)

But the biggest fan response to the "Cursed Child" casting was a giant roar of approval for Noma Dumezweni, which makes the Harry Potter fandom's decades-long push for a brown-skinned Hermione not just a dream, but straight-up canon.

And P.S., that's canon confirmed by the master herself, as J.K. Rowling pre-empted any Death-Eater-ly pushback against Black Hermione with a resounding tweet.

Rowling was also joined by onscreen Hogwarts alums Evanna Lynch and Matthew Lewis, who weighed in with some magical wisdom on the importance of looks to a role.

So let's just can the ridiculous complaints about the hue of Hermione's epidermis, mmmkay?

Meanwhile, there are still months to go before "Cursed Child" makes its debut -- and plenty of roles to be filled, including the part of Albus Severus Potter, whose adolescent angst is a big part of the story.

And while this announcement fills in three big blanks about the play, there hasn't been a peep from the producers when it comes to the huge, burning question of whether or not little Albus lives in a snitch nest, which is disappointing.

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