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

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

So, how sure are we that the reports of the (horrible, terrible, ridiculous) play's script are correct?

I've told a few other people about it and their first reaction is "you must be joking".

And face it, Rowling has the resources to foist a con on the entire internet, and can hire the smarts to do it. She's internet-savvy these days, lecturing everyone from Twitter, making up hash-tags at the drop of a hat, the idea might have occurred to her. The "don't read the tweets of @hypable" might have been a cute way of getting people to do exactly that and take the bait.

Have there been multiple sources/corroborations of this, such that we know the reports are authentic? The Reddit site seemed to have different sources than the hypable one.

[traverse.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of the 'carpet book' nine years ago, when what many people believed to be a hoax turned out to be... well, the horrible truth.

[arcanetrivia]

I had that feeling as well.

[traverse.livejournal.com]

I kind of understand why JKR had to see the series of books through to the end - the year-by-year structure did not really allow for another option, although it was painfully clear that she ran out of steam by the end and nobody was firm enough to edit the later books once she reached the goddess (or the golden goose) status. The best thing about them was Snape's backstory, but even that was slapdash and so tainted by the author's unconscious biases and frankly dubious ethical positions... I'll stop here.

What I don't understand is what forces her to produce more and ever worse stuff now. It can't really be money, can it? How much money does one need?