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

Re: Are We Sure That This Isn't a Joke? (Part III)

[dracasadiablo.livejournal.com]

Wait "Voldemort Day"?
Wasn't the name "Voldemort" a taboo? Didn't he demand that even his DE only call him the Dark Lord? But now it's "Voldemort Day"? What? 0_o

Snake charms?
Are we to think that Voldy cared about Quidditch enough to change it? Why would he do that? Seriously, he seemed to be one of the only people who didn't give a damn about idiots on brooms.
Or did his followers change it to try and please him?
It's just ridiculous.

"For Voldemort and valor"? Again with just trowing the V word left and right. Who would have thought I'd actually miss all Dark Lord / He Who Must Not Be Named crap.
And yeah, that salute is trying way too hard. We get it Jo. They are wizarding Nazi. Really you don't need to hit us over the head with it.

"nown as the Scorpion King"
. . . Scorpion King? Seriously?
I will never be able to think about this crap without imagining The Rock as Scorpion King showing up on Hogwarts. xD
The sad thing is; it would make about as much sense as everything else that's in this mess.

But that aside; are we to think that Voldy would be happy about a child of his followers being called a "King"?
It's not like he ever showed any love for Malfoys. So, why would Scorpius be in any way special to him?

The Blood Ball things is silly but also creepy.
The way WW is obsessed with pureblood and mudblood is making me think that "the Blood Ball" is not some sadistic horror show with blood all around; but a matchmaking / breeding tool.

//So, she's cold-blooded enough to kill a student because he gets in the way...and yet her idea of humiliating Cedric to turn him into an 'angry young man' is for him to fly naked on a purple broom.//
Ugh, is it just me our dose that "naked on a purple feathers broom" thing have a nasty whiff of homophobia?
It sounds as if Delphie is going to shame him by implying he might be gay or not "manly" enough. :(
Jo did use "Dumbledore in a purple suit" as "clue" that DD was gay. So it wouldn't surprise me (especially after reading JKR's books for adults.) if she was using it here again in a "funny" way.

Re: Are We Sure That This Isn't a Joke? (Part III)

[aikaterini.livejournal.com]

/Wasn't the name "Voldemort" a taboo? Didn't he demand that even his DE only call him the Dark Lord? But now it's "Voldemort Day"?/

Good point! But even if Voldemort did allow the Death Eaters to address him by his name, it still sounds silly. Was there ever an actual "Stalin Day?" I mean, I could maybe see the Death Eaters making his birthday a holiday (if they knew when it was), but to actually call the day "Voldemort Day?" What?

/Seriously, he seemed to be one of the only people who didn't give a damn about idiots on brooms./

Which is why it puzzles me whenever I see fanfiction or fanart depict Tom Riddle as a Quidditch player. Nowhere in the books was it ever mentioned that he was an athlete, and he didn't seem like someone who'd be into sports.

/Or did his followers change it to try and please him?/

I think that that's more likely, and if this was supposed to be a comedy, that could be pretty funny. The wizards are so obsessed with Quidditch that they'll rename sports terms to please Voldemort, and they don't even know or realize that Voldemort doesn't care about Quidditch and finds the whole thing dumb.

/I will never be able to think about this crap without imagining The Rock as Scorpion King showing up on Hogwarts./

Hee. :) Well, now Scorpius can empathize with Nessie from "Breaking Dawn" as another child whose unfortunate name led to a pop culture nickname.

/if she was using it here again in a "funny" way./

But this isn't supposed to be funny, right? We're really supposed to think that Cedric would become a Death Eater just because he was seen flying out the maze naked. That that's all it takes to turn a character who'd been established as a noble and honorable young man into an 'angry young man' who'd snap and join Voldemort.

I just don't understand the thought process behind this. Yes, Cedric would be humiliated, but why would that event be so life-changing? He's not Severus Snape, who's been humiliated and beaten down all his life and grasps at any chance to prove his worth. He's not Barty Crouch Jr., whose father views him as a status symbol and object.

And, once again, he was *willing to give Harry the cup.* He was willing to walk away from the chance for glory. Not only for himself, but also for his House which, as the narrator says in GoF, hadn't received that type of glory for *years.* He was willing to give it all up because he felt that it was the right thing to do. Does that really sound like someone who'd join a terrorist group just because he once lost face?

It just sounds so childish and juvenile. Both the ridiculous way in which Cedric is humiliated and the assumption that one day of humiliation is enough to make him snap and completely change character.

[arcanetrivia]

I mean, I could maybe see the Death Eaters making his birthday a holiday (if they knew when it was)

December 31st? He just might have some competition with established festivities, there (especially in Scotland).

I just don't understand the thought process behind this. Yes, Cedric would be humiliated, but why would that event be so life-changing?

And wouldn't the other Hufflepuffs, not to mention maybe other students, band together to support him, like they did when there was the kerfuffle over him being the only valid entrant from Hogwarts in the first place? ("Support Cedric Diggory!") Or, you know, his parents, who it seemed to me adored Cedric and would stick by him?