Harry Potter & the Cursed Child

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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

Re: The Epitome of Bad Fanfic

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This is as may be - but from the legal point of view, there was a general understanding that certain information is confidential, because she had asked to keep exactly this amount of information secret. And she was within her right, it is her property after all. There isn't a hard and fast rule to determine what is confidential - but people knew that's what she wanted and this is important. Mousetrap asks to keep secret less information, but in perpetuity, she asks for total secrecy, but temporarily - there are always nuances.

Having said that, I am not sure what she was hoping to achieve by this. I am not at all interested in this flogging of a barely alive horse, be it any of the post-canon one-shots, or the recent Pottermore drivel, or this play. But I know I would be more likely to be interested if there was a concise and to the point summary, like the one you gave, than 'Harry and Albus struggle with stuff' - and we should care why? (Well, the diehard fans probably are.) So, lack of information probably saved me precious hours of my life. I struggled just to read the spoilers! :)