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

TimeTurning

[hwyla.livejournal.com]

It IS completely ridiculous to 'believe' Scorp is Voldy's child. Aside from the idea that one can use a TimeTurner to go 'forward' in time - something never even discussed as a possibility in canon - this rumor would mean that you could move forward into a time when you are dead. One would think that if one tried this, one would end up dead as well.

After all, the only indication we have that a timeturner could move by increments of years (instead of hours, like Hermione's) was during the fight in the DoM's timeturner room. The one DE whose head fell into the timeturner kept vacillating between adult-to-baby head. That would imply that particular timeturner could jump very quickly multiple years, but that it also affected the state of one's body. Presumably, if one went too far back, one would become a "gleam in your father's eye" - before your own birth.

However, that would rule out most timeturner fics - and ASP and Scorp would just 'disappear' on their first trip into the past. And I suppose I can understand the concept that one must be able to jump forward in time or they would have been forced to live their lives in Harry's teen years.