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]

Here's the thing; that old blanket could have actually been touching.
If JKR wrote a play about a grown up Harry being contacted by Dursley. It could have been a play about Harry coming to terms with many things. About actually building a friendship with Dudley (maybe even have Dudley's child turn out to be a wizard).

But the most important part; it could have been about Petunia's guilt and love that had her keep the blanket. The blanket really had no emotional significant to Harry. It was Petunia that keep it for all those years. The play could have explored that.
Showed us what made her mourn her sister and keep the last thing she had of her; but at the same time act terribly toward Harry. Showed us her inner turmoil. It could have also been used to give us Dursleys that are more then caricatures.
And been used to explain but also to condemn their action during Harry's childhood. Even shows us Just how badly DD messed up and just how did his and Petunia's comunication looked like.

Really, the whole blanket thing had so much potential. But the way it was used is just, well, a wet blanket on everything.