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

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

Black constellation-theming meets all the care over Latin we'd expect based on the spells in this series. (Also, "hir" is a non-binary pronoun; an FtM trans person would use "he" and an MtF trans person would use "she".)

Hermione is teaching Defense because it was always her weakest subject.

I can kind of believe that: Hermione seems the type who'd angrily throw herself into a subject she knows isn't her strongest, just to prove she can triumph in it.

[vermouth1991.livejournal.com]

From my conversation experience I've also learned: "Hir" can also be used when you're simply not sure of the person's gender, even if it's binary; also I've seen a lot of cases where trans people prefer the pronoun "they". Long story short: F@&k you and your mistakes, there's no such thing as an honest mistake, and you should grovel like a biatch whenever you make one, because trans people are so presecuted in real life misgendering them is tantamount to murder. #NotEntirelySarcastic

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

... okay, that was unexpected. In any case, the OP specified genders for the hypothetical trans Delphinus; perhaps I should have said "most likely", but wow. I'm really not sure how you got "there's no such thing as an honest mistake" out of my comment.

[vermouth1991.livejournal.com]

Yikes, my bad! To clarify: none of the frustration I expressed was directed against you or anyone else on this thread. It was partially a projection of the "burn" I have recieved myself from unwisely talking about trans people's pronouns with some less-than-forgiving people (hence the "no such thing as an honest mistake [you're simply being transphobic!]" bit), and also from the "burn" I've seen other people undergo in similar conversations where things got blown out of proportions. The usage of "you" in my grumble-rant was a broadstroke thing and not meant to mean anyone in particular, least of all you. 🤕 And I'm sorry that my overall bad attitude has turned even the stuff I wrote before the "long story short" (which was just adding to your comment, unless you think it was condescending) short-tempered.

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. Honestly, French has a perfectly good general-you pronoun, why couldn't English have stolen that? (And no, I don't see anything condescending in the stuff before "long story short", for what it's worth.)