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

[dracasadiablo.livejournal.com]

. . . okay.
I've just read all of this (here and all linked spoilers) and I don't even.
Sadly, I'm sure it's all true. But I'm having troubles understand how it happened.
Yes, JKR lost any ability to write even slightly okay HP (or anything else). But we knew that since, at least, book six.
What I don't get is; why did everybody just nod and go along with this BS? There must have been many, many people involved in the process. How is it that nobody noticed that everything about this is crap?

It's worse then a lot of badfic. Hell, it sounds more like a crack/bashing fic then anything else.
Nothing makes any sense and all characters are shown as abusive or unsympathetic idiots.

[vault712]

It almost sounds like how the Star Wars prequels were so bad, because everyone involved was afraid of Lucas, who himself had absolute control over every aspect of the movies, no one dared to criticize him despite noticing the bad/stupid ideas thrown in. He simply went for the easiest less demanding stuff knowing he'd make billions no matter how bad it would turn out to be, since his target audience doesn't have difficult taste and doesn't spend hours online arguing with other nerds breaking down the movies finding inconsistencies and how and why they're bad.

Maybe Rowling has total control over that story and dismissed anyone who might have suggested "don't you think it sounds like bad fanfic?", then why did no one, years earlier, said the same thing about DH being bad fanfic? or even for some part of HBP? Her editors clearly stopped doing their job when they saw the phenomenal success of the books, I'd say around book 4, 5.

I don't know if there is really a "JKtatoRship", but I'm sure there is a hardcore portion of the fandom, much more visible, louder, and probably younger, who seem to literally worship JKR and who are blind to plot holes/inconsistencies/plain old logic, as long as they get something directly from Rowling. And Rowling oblige them as they are the most "pleasant" and easy to please fans, and because they also fit in her view of what HP fan should be today and they should like.

If you ever checked HP book release parties in the media on TV, you mostly see young kids about 11-12 waiting in lines, never the older more critic crowd, who ironically are the one who contribute the most to the fandom, by keeping up discussion, fan sites, writing the fanfic, organizing meetups, etc.

I prefer analyzing the books, except DH, and browse tin foil hats theories that are smarter and more entertaining than her own declarations and her post-DH released materials.

It's worse than bad fanfic, but at least bad fanfic remains fanfic, this is a play from the author of the source material, though she can't seem to remember what she has written in those old books. In fact I doubt she would never be able to write the whole series again

As for me I'd just throw the story to the Dementors.