Harry Potter & the Cursed Child

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

For anyone who's curious, the plot of the play has been discussed in spoilery comments at the following links:

Source 1

Source 2

Source 3 UPDATE: Snitchseeker took down their spoilers as JKR called out another website for doing the same and TPTB have been contacting people to request they don't post any details. *eyeroll*

But never fear, Andrew Sims of Hypable (whom JKR called 'Wormtaily' for betraying the secret, lmao) linked to a cohesive recap of the entire two-part play.

When I first read about this, I thought it was someone trolling, but there's multiple sources? Either there's a conspiracy afoot or it's legit, IDK what to believe!

What kind of crappy fanfic, lmao! A Time-Turner plot, seriously? To save CEDRIC DIGGORY, of all people, wtf?

How shitty that anti-Slytherin prejudice is still going strong to the point that Albus is ostracized for being sorted into Slytherin. :/

Cackling at Ron & Hermione never getting together as a result of the temporal shenanigans, hehe. But I'm pissed that her being single results in her becoming a bitter Hogwarts teacher as opposed to happily married Hermione being the Minister of Magic, the implications there are pretty gross.

I can't even process everything I just read. Wow. JKR should be fired from her own world, just what even.

Comments

[elanor-x.livejournal.com]

\\ It tells us that Harry never learned to control his anger and caps lock abuse. And that he and WW never bothered to learn anything.

This was evident from the end of DH. "All was well" = return to pre-Voldemort status quo, with all the conditions which produce a new Dark Lord every generation or so. I read quite a few essays on the subject.

And, why would anybody think Harry "learned to control his anger", when he evolves from being almost unable to hurt Bellatrix in Ootp to being praised for his gallant Crucio in DH?

In post-war days, only Ginny wouldn't be afraid to push / shout back at him to make Harry control himself. Considering her own shouting-bullying tendencies, she is hardly the person to teach Harry self-control. In general, the latter seems a mark of evil in HP: only Slytherins, politicians and worse among Ravenclaws are capable of controlling and hiding their emotions.

\\ Also, I supposed it's "nice" to know that Hermione's and Ron's relationship was fully and only based on jealousy on his part.

In sistermagpie's HBP recaps on this site, she showed how the same seems to be true also for Harry and Ginny.

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

I just can't believe Harry saying he wishes his own son didn't exist - it's in character for a pre-teen like Albus to be obnoxious and say rubbish like 'I hate you, I wish you weren't my father', but for Harry to RECIPROCATE? Damn.

I hate that 'All was well'! Harry's scar isn't a connection to all the bad wizards ever, just to VOLDEMORT. His scar not troubling him means nothing.

[nx74defiant.livejournal.com]

it's in character for a pre-teen like Albus to be obnoxious and say rubbish like 'I hate you, I wish you weren't my father', but for Harry to RECIPROCATE?

Unfortunately almost all the adults in JKR world have the emotional maturity of a pre-teen.

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

Also, I supposed it's "nice" to know that Hermione's and Ron's relationship was fully and only based on jealousy on his part.

In sistermagpie's HBP recaps on this site, she showed how the same seems to be true also for Harry and Ginny.

Rowling seemed incapable of depecting (teenage) romance by any mechanism other than jealousy. I've always complained about that (well, while rejoicing that Rowling made it so easy to damn her precious canon couplings :-)).

Harry's lust for Ginny in the first place is a (green-eyed) stomach monster born in jealousy over seeing Ginny kiss Dean. Half of Ginny's scenes in DH exhibit jealousy over anything female that might get close to Harry - women on his infinite camping trip, Gabrielle's crush, and, most damning of all, when Cho Chang, ex girlfriend, volunteers to help save Harry's life from the world's most evil dark lord, little Ginny's only thought is NO MUST NOT LET HER GET CLOSE TO HARRY.

H/G equals jealousy.

But R/Hr is much worse, of course (if only because it spanned more books). The only hint we have that Ron is interested in Hermione is via his jealousy - jealousy at Krum, at McLaggin, at Harry himself. Through the early books Hermione showed no attraction to Ron, but then Rowling penned HBP, Sweet Valley Hogwarts, and decided to have Hermione at long last show signs of interest in Won Won. How did she did it? The only way she knew how - jealousy. And so we had the puerile and very negative games of jealousy and spite that seemed to consume half of the penultimate HP volume.

I haven't been able to absorb much of these spoilers ... is Rowling basically conceding that R/Hr was based on jealousy?

I'm sure she'll have Part 2 restore the timeline and put back her precious canon pairings. To do anything else would be admitting that the canon wasn't perfect in the first place, and I don't think Rowling is capable of that.

[dracasadiablo.livejournal.com]

//This was evident from the end of DH. "All was well" = return to pre-Voldemort status quo, with all the conditions which produce a new Dark Lord every generation or so. I read quite a few essays on the subject.//
Oh, yes. But you still had so many people defending it. So many things were written trying to excuse Harry's caps lock-ing, anger issues and total moral bankruptcy.
People trying to show some flimsy "evidence" that Harry really grew up and that "All was well" was true.

But this destroyed all of that.
It's years later, there's no war, no Tom's soul fragment in Harry making him angry or anything like that, Harry is happy, surrounded by people who love him, have a prestigious job and power in WW . . . and he still allows himself to say such things to his child?
Yeah, grownup Harry really isn't a good parent or a good person.

Btw, if he wasn't able to control himself with his son; I shudder to think how he acts toward people he doesn't like. For example, people he, due to his job, have power over.

[nx74defiant.livejournal.com]

I like how one place put it of Harry and Ron as Aurors - a couple of "good old boys" running the law enforcement. We've seen how well that works.