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

[t0ra-chan.livejournal.com]

Wow, if that is really the plot of the play, then Rowling has truly lost any talent she might have had. She basically destroyed the whole message of HP that was so important to her: death is final and we need to accept it. But nope, instead we just go back in time to save a character nobody in canon has cared about since book 5. And didn't she destroy all the time turners in book 5 precisely to avoid people asking why the characters don't use them to save people?

And then there is all the minor stuff:

Why is Albus in Slytherin when he clearly didn't want to end up there and Harry told him that he can ask the hat to put him somewhere else? He seemed neither cunning nor ambitious, so it seems he is there just for drama.

Why is Draco saying his parents didn't love him when at least Narcissa clearly did?

Why would Harry give a shit about this blanket? He has no positive connection to the Dursleys and he never came across as sentimental to me.

Does Rowling have any idea how often they would have to spin the time turner to get back more than 25 years? That would be about a quarter million spins, that would take ages.

It's all just so stupid, filled with plot holes and characters being ooc.