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

[dorea-ysleen.livejournal.com]

I agree that Albus and Scorpius probably wouldn't have heard the whole story from their fathers, but that's not the only source available. The Quibbler printed the whole story in detail after Harry's interview, and the Prophet followed suit a few months later. Shouldn't there be textbooks about it now? Are they both as allergic to the library and research as Harry and Ron? Wait, don't answer that... "act first, think later (if you really have to)" is the much more exciting approach to everything...

[arcanetrivia]

Are they both as allergic to the library and research as Harry and Ron? Wait, don't answer that... "act first, think later (if you really have to)" is the much more exciting approach to everything...

Which might be worth a shrug and an "Oh, those Gryffindors and their hot heads"... if Albus and Scorpius were Gryffindors. Um. Er.

I suppose if we're told that Albus is mediocre in school, maybe he is allergic to the library? I dunno about Scorpius, tho.

[hwyla.livejournal.com]

Did the Quibbler put in the entire story? I know it published everything about Voldie's return that Harry told in the interview - but does that mean he actually mentioned BartyMoody?

It doesn't really seem to me that he necessarily did. You would think that if he had, there might have been other repercussions - such as the DP (and Rita's later book) exclaiming how Albus didn't even recognize Barty wasn't Moody.

Surely the Ministry would have then been slandering Moody as well, in the Prophet! He confirm the story Harry had been telling. They would need to make him 'delusional' - not just paranoid.

And after Fudge was ousted as Minister, you would think that someone might accuse him of suppressing evidence by having a known and recognized DE kissed before he could be asked questions.

I not so sure that Harry told 'everything' to the Quibbler - just everything that happened in the graveyard.

As for textbooks - we can all see how Binns teaches history. Is there any evidence that he wouldn't still be teaching only about Goblin Wars? And Albus and Scorpius are a little young here to be worried enough about their OWLs that they might actually read the books themselves. One would HOPE so, but it doesn't seem like Hogwarts really instills that sort of interest in the subject.

Shame Albus isn't studious, since both of his namesakes were so intelligent, but neither of his parents would be the type to instill a love of learning and I'm betting every adult he might know still teases Hermione about being a bookworm know-it-all. That would probably turn him off the idea of studying on his own.

Less reason for Scorpius to not have read anything. Draco, despite fanon's belief that he cheated to get his grades, was probably well-learned. His father was disappointed that he wasn't first in his class and since he actually did well enough in his first potions class for Snape to point out his chopping skills, I would guess he had tutors before Hogwarts.

That however might bring up all kinds of problems he might have instilling a love of learning into his son. Perhaps he would find it too similar to his own father and so avoid it?

[borg-princess.livejournal.com]

exactly, I agree with all this. there's very little likelihood the boys would learn any of this at school, considering the level of education Hogwarts offers. and even if it were in the papers, I don't see them combing the archives! this is where Rose might've played a role, but so much for that. *eyeroll*

[dorea-ysleen.livejournal.com]

I agree that they wouldn't have learned it from Binns or could be expected to research on their own just out of curiosity or for the fun of it - as you said, OWLs are a long way away. But they were going back in time to change some major events - shouldn't that have been reason enough to find out anything they could?