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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child story leaks out (Spoilers obviously)
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Time travel generally tends to suck ass when featured in a work that's not centred on time travel.
the_sun_king
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Well, that's very fan servicey.
It has some good ideas and character moments going from the summaries, but it might be a little too convoluted of a narrative for its own sake.
It has some good ideas and character moments going from the summaries, but it might be a little too convoluted of a narrative for its own sake.
We're trying to give people a second chance to bail out from the fuckery.
DrForester
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BreezyLimbo
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This sounds pretty rad though.
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Jokes on you guys, they grabbed the first thing they found off fanfiction.net and built a whole production out of it to prevent leaks for the REAL show.
...right? right guys?
...right? right guys?
The fun thing about canon is that once an author/creator get's too nuts, you can just pick and choose which sources are the true canon as your personal head canon (on top of the whole "Death of the Author" stuff). For me, anything that comes out of JK Rowling's head after the books is garbage, so I feel okay rejecting it. I was forced to do the same with Kojima after MGS3.
Life is better this way.
Not enough fucking to be fanfic.
Fata1moose
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Wow this sounds awful.
I'm just going to pretend this doesn't exist.
I'm just going to pretend this doesn't exist.
That would be the funniest thing ever.XD
FireBeaver
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This seems to fall into "So bad, it's good" territory and I love it.
To be fair, lots of series about time travel do that. See: Terminator vs Terminator 2: Judgement Day
xXCrazyCostaXX
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The sad thing is they will end up turning this into a movie and I'll go see it cause I'm pathetic
orthodoxy1095
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TheGeniusArcana
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Now that I think about it, handing the series over to George Lucas really did seem like a weird choice.
Even though my head physically hurts from reading the spoilers, I'm right there with you. I'd probably see this on opening night like I have with the other Harry Potter films, lol.
Somewhere in Lucasfilm, a screen writer is reading this thread and having second thoughts of Rey being a Palpatine clone.
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Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Reads like fanfic.
The only reason I know it isn't is that Draco Malfoy doesn't seem to have leather pants and Ron's not a Death Eater in secret.
The only reason I know it isn't is that Draco Malfoy doesn't seem to have leather pants and Ron's not a Death Eater in secret.
Aaaand I'll be buying this to go with my Harry Potter book collection.
That's how Rowling herself sees it. She has been very clear that Cursed Child is the official 8th story in the series and the sequel to Deathly Hallows.
Why are people acting like this is only a play that they will never get to see the full story?
The book verison of the play is out July 31st to those who are unaware.
Oh. I wish I knew this before I read the article.
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Yeah but I mean now they have a time turner with unlimited travel time. Like they can go back in time and pick up Tom Riddle's basket and raise him with care. It'll completely alter the timeline but millions of wizards would be saved.
rowling what the fuck
Admiral Woofington
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Why are people acting like this is only a play that they will never get to see the full story?
The book verison of the play is out July 31st to those who are unaware.
i ain't touching that with a 10 foot pole until we get confirmation from readers it's not as bad as these summaries make it seem.
And like a whole fucking corner of my house is a bible to harry potter. I just went to Fan Expo SOLELY to get the signature of Fred and George Weasley.
For some reason I thought this was just a musical.
That is even more bananas than I expected from the surprised comments here.
To be fair, if you read a plot summary of a Harry Potter novel rather than the book -- devoid of dialog and all the charming characterization and atmosphere -- it would probably be pretty bad too.
But even so... what a crazy story.
I'm sure it will be a least somewhat better when we can read the actual script and some of the charm should come through in the actual dialog.
To be fair, if you read a plot summary of a Harry Potter novel rather than the book -- devoid of dialog and all the charming characterization and atmosphere -- it would probably be pretty bad too.
But even so... what a crazy story.
I'm sure it will be a least somewhat better when we can read the actual script and some of the charm should come through in the actual dialog.
Just to be clear, it's a stage script. Not an actual book of course.
I am surprised people don't yet know Rowlings script is being published. The book hype has been everywhere. Amazon and stores like Barnes and Nobles have been heavily marketing it.
I gotcha.
Harry & Ginny sees their son, Albus, off to Hogwarts. He meets Scorpio, Draco's son, on the Hogwarts Express. Surprise, Scorpius is a'ight. They become best friends. Albus gets into slytherin. Ain't that something.
Year later. Albus has beef with Harry, but it's regular father-son 'living in your shadow' cowboy shenanigans. It's revealed Time-Turners still exist, one has been found. Amos Diggory, the father of Cedric Diggory, says to Harry, now head of Magical Law Enforcement and therefore in possession of the illegal time-turner, 'hey you should fuck around with time to save my son.' Harry says no, Albus overhears this along with Amos Diggory's niece, Delphie Diggory.
Albus steals the time-turner and decides to fuck around with time, citing that a lot of people have died because of Harry. Scorpius, Albus, and Delphie all go to sabotage Cedric during the triwizard cup, because winning the cup ended up killing him. It doesn't go as planned, alternate universe is made where Ron marries Padma, Hermione becomes a teacher, surprise surprise Albus and Harry don't get along still.
The three go back in time again and properly fuck everything up. Only Scorpius manages to go back to the present, because, well, they properly fucked everything up. By sabotaging Cedric and embarrassing him in front of Hogwarts he becomes a death eater and kills Neville and so Harry dies at the battle of Hogwarts. Umbridge is now headmistress of Hogwarts, for Voldemort & For Valor, Scorpius is known as 'The Scorpion King' and apparently there's a thing called a blood ball and I'm just rambling so let's move on.
Ron and Hermione are the world's most wanted criminals, hidden by Snape, still alive, still ballin. Scorpius convinces the three he's from an alternate universe and so all of them go back in time to fix the timeline, in what I'm sure is a shot-for-shot remake of Back To The Future 2. Alternate Ron, Hermione & Snape all die in the process.
The timeline is fixed, and everything's found out by the adult cast who's been tracking them down this entire time and so Albus & Scorpius are, uh, put into detention for the rest of the year. Jesus, when I type that out I realize how inconsequential it all sounds. the boys lie about the time-turner being broken, and decide enough's enough and that they should break it themselves. But before they can do anything, Delphie, summoned by the two boys and properly filled in on what happened in the other universe- disables the two and takes the time-turner.
Plot twist, she's Voldemort's kid. Voldemort and Bellatrix's kid, actually. She goes back in time to sabotage Cedric for a third time- damn, poor guy, taking L's after death- but is stopped by the two boys. They end up in Godric's Hollow, where Delphie is planning to... ugh, it's not worth typing all up, you think it'd just be killing Harry but it's not, so basically just back to fucking up time. They manage to signal the adult cast in the future, who wrangle up another hidden time-turner from Draco and so the entire cast is reunited, Albus & Harry fight Delphie, win, and they all watch Harry's parent's deaths before hopping back to the present. Delphie ends up in Azkaban. Harry & Albus visit Cedric's grave.
Something something friendship? redemption? courage? 'You were named after two great men, who had flaws, but their flaws made them better.'
TL;DR Out of spite, Harry's kid dicks around with time, ends up fighting Voldemort's kid who also wants to dick around with time. Harry watches his parents die.
Is it bad that I burst out laughing when I read that line?
Why are people acting like this is only a play that they will never get to see the full story?
The book verison of the play is out July 31st to those who are unaware.
I thought that was only the script of the play and not an actual novel.
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