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

[arcanetrivia]

Even Rowling can't write something like this ... well ...

She didn't actually, though, I thought? I mean presumably she approved the script, and maybe she wrote the story itself in outine or narrative, but I thought it was actually written by someone else?

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

The play was written by someone else, but based on a new story by JKR. And even then, according to Pottermore, the play was adapted in collaboration with JKR, soooo. Yep. It's all on her.

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

It's more than mere 'approval' this time. The web site for the play and Wikipedia state:

written by Jack Thorne and based on a story by author J. K. Rowling, Thorne and director John Tiffany.

So the guilt of writing this abomination of a story is shared between the three. Thorne then adapted the story to the stage.