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

Am I a bad person-

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

-for liking all the Snapey goodness in part two? Honestly, Rowling seems to treat him better here than she did in either the books or her interviews. And I love the idea of his being friends with Ron and Hermione. That said:

Voldemort's daughter. Ugh! More genetic determinism; of course the child has to be evil because both her parents were evil.

No real attempt, in either universe, to examine the root of evil in the Wizarding World. Again, it's all got to be related to Voldemort. There's no suggestion that racism is natural to this world, nor that Albus Dumbledore contributed to Voldemort's rise.

Harry as a lousy father. That I can believe, unfortunately, but I can't get over his giving Al that ratty blanket. I had to read the second part to even understand why Harry himself would have been fond of the blanket, and what it meant to him. Even so, what a lousy gift for a young teen boy!

And then, the whole thing -- both parts, both universes--seems inconsistent with the books in small and large ways. To give one example, why is Draco so evil in the alternate universe? Wouldn't his whole family still have been under threat, and wouldn't his mother still have risked her life twice to save him? I don't see how that leads to his being a monster. I also can't see Cedric turning to the dark side just because he lost the triwizard tournament. That good, brave, selfless boy who was willing to share the prize? That's just ridiculous!

I'm probably curious enough to read the book when it comes out, but it does seem an awful mess. And yes, everyone is right about the relationships, and how they are based on jealousy. But I will read it for the Ron/Hermione/Severus stuff.

Re: Am I a bad person-

[penguinsuzie.livejournal.com]

I'm relieved that the Snape stuff doesn't sound too bad, I want to be hopeful about it but I'm keeping my expectations pretty low. I'm worried that how he's portrayed only sounds positive coming from people who clearly despise his character. Or that it'll pile on the idea that Snape only ever did anything good in his life "because Lily".

The Delphi stuff is hilariously bad. Apparently she also has about a dozen Mary Sue traits to the point of sounding like a parody of Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way. The hair and tattoo, being a half-breed despite it making zero sense, being a powerful Dark Wizard with a weird mix of her parents personalities mashed together, the prophecy scribbled over the walls of her bedroom which is locked with a parseltongue password. I wish I was kidding.

[arcanetrivia]

being a half-breed despite it making zero sense

Wouldn't she be accounted a half-blood because Tom Riddle was? I dunno how many generations that takes to breed out but it's got to be more than one. Or were you referring to this "Augury" business?

[penguinsuzie.livejournal.com]

Yeah I mean the Augury thing, I've heard that she's actually half Augrey/Human and that she might have wings (hopefully those people were trolling).

I think the rules for being considered a Pure-Blood are if you have 4 magical grandparents, so Harry and Ginny's kids would count. Though I doubt that's considered pure enough for purists like Bellatrix unless those grandparents were pure-bloods themselves.

[dracasadiablo.livejournal.com]

But why Augurey?
If she was, somehow, part snake?that would make some sense.
But a bird? It makes no sense. Even if she was going for her having some kind of gift of prophecy from Augurey blood; those bloody birds only predict rain!

Re: Am I a bad person-

[snapes-witch.livejournal.com]

-for liking all the Snapey goodness in part two? Honestly, Rowling seems to treat him better here than she did in either the books or her interviews. And I love the idea of his being friends with Ron and Hermione.

Don't forget, two guys wrote the play -- JKR just 'consulted', so maybe we should credit them for the Snapey goodness?