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

[aikaterini.livejournal.com]

/she was non-existent throughout the play, except for a scene or two of being snotty to Scorpius. Because in JKR's world, being an asshat to someone is a sign of Twu Wuv./

That's why, if this was an attempt to coast on the popularity of Rose/Scorpius or Draco/Hermione in fandom, it backfired. Because you're right, Rose has nothing to do with the whole time-travel plot. She doesn't go with Scorpius and Albus, and doesn't even help out during the final showdown with Delphina. In fact, a measuring stick is what she really is. She sniffs at Scorpius and Albus to show how bad their social status is in the beginning, she's a talented Quidditch player just to be a contrast to the socially inferior Albus and Scorpius, and then she grudgingly agrees to date Scorpius to show how much Scorpius has risen in confidence or something like that.

So, I don't see why Scorpius/Rose fans would like it, since her character is pointless and she's just as much of a shallow, stuck-up, and catty prima donna towards him as Lily was to Snape, and I don't see why Draco/Hermione fans would like it because he hasn't given any reason for Rose to dislike him. There's no rivalry between them about grades; there's no ideological conflict about blood purity. She's just being a brat because the HP narrative inexplicably thinks that girls treating their male love interests like dirt is cute.