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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne
23 reviews
amiamor's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Classism, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Bullying, Death of parent, and Murder
Minor: War, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Violence
idailf's review
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Bullying, Death, and Death of parent
Minor: Car accident
lilith_hmr's review
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
0.5
Honestly, whatever Rowling says about this being canon, I cannot accept it. This book was absolutely shit. Definitely not the Harry Potter I read in the Series. But not going to lie there were at least 2 lines in the book that added a nice touch to it, but the rest of the book contained a lot of loopholes, and definitely not going to re-read it ever again.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, and Death
Moderate: Murder, Violence, and Torture
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Death of parent
emabooks's review
adventurous
challenging
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, and Murder
leilaliw's review
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Torture, and Child death
Moderate: Death, Murder, and Violence
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Death of parent
lily1304's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I liked the Cursed Child more than I expected to. It isn't, like, stellar, but it's worth reading. There's a little too much talking and not enough action or room for interpretation - but it's a play script, so I guess it has to be dialogue-heavy. I don't find Harry and Draco's friendship super believable. There's a lot of heterosexual "nagging wife" humor between Ron & Hermione and Harry & Ginny. There's not enough time to really get invested in Albus and Scorpious' friendship. I'm not sure who the target audience is because we spend a lot of time with the two boys and I saw the plot twist coming a mile away, BUT we also see and hear multiple people be murdered. .
But, that's also the case for the Goblet of Fire, which the Cursed Child draws heavily from - it's a kids' adventure, until it absolutely isn't. There is some interesting reflection on who Harry, Draco, and Ginny become as adults and how they grapple with the trauma they experienced - and how they pass it onto their children.
Also fuck TERFs like J.K. Rowling. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are obviously all trans.
But, that's also the case for the Goblet of Fire, which the Cursed Child draws heavily from - it's a kids' adventure, until it absolutely isn't. There is some interesting reflection on who Harry, Draco, and Ginny become as adults and how they grapple with the trauma they experienced - and how they pass it onto their children.
Also fuck TERFs like J.K. Rowling. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are obviously all trans.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Death, Death of parent, and Child death
Moderate: Torture, Bullying, and Violence
Minor: Terminal illness
Whatever the whole Muggleborn/Pureblood conflict isizzettl's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Torture, Stalking, Pedophilia, Murder, Mental illness, Homophobia, Grief, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, Bullying, and Adult/minor relationship
violaceae's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying
trintrin's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
0.25
So contradictory to the original series. Harry Potter is a mystery series (apart from the magical, fantasy side) NOT a time travelling one. Nearly everyone is out of character and weird plot devices are used throughout the book and it drives me bonkers.
SPOILERS!!
A huge rant warning
- Cedric Diggory would NEVER be a Death Eater. Even thinking that he would've turned into a dark wizard had he been alive, is an insult to Cedric's memory.
- Cedric killing Neville has nothing to do with Snape living. Vodemort would still go after the Elder Wand and kill Snape when the wand doesn't work as expected.
- Nagini living doesn't have anything to do with Harry being killed. Lily's protected would still live inside Voldemort and it would still save Harry from death.
- Delphi
- Harry -- who knows how it feels to live without parents -- would never tell his son "sometimes I wish you weren't my son".
- Hermione was never interested in politics and therefore, it doesn't make sense for her to be the Minister for Magic. Maybe movie!Hermione would've done that, but never book!Hermione.
- book!Ron was never an idiot who id the butt of the joke.
- Delphi.
- All the original Time Turners were smashed in the battle of the Department of Mysteries.
- The way these Time Turners work is contradictory to the original series. They should only be able to go back a few hours and then age into the future. This weird five minute rule never existed and going back several decades should be impossible since you would also are the amount of time you went back.
- There's also this one Time Turner which doesn't have the five minute rule so that Harry can watch his parents be killed again lmao how convenient.
- DELPHI
- Why on earth would Harry ever stop his son from being friends with someone?
- Hermione, the brightest witch of her age, would totally hide a highly dangerous and useful plot device in a place where two teens can go and get it.
- DELPHI DIGGORY HOW AND WHY DOES SHE EVEN EXIST? Bellatrix would've been very much pregnant at the Malfoy Manor scene in DH, and yet we never saw that??
- Harry shouting at Ginny
- Harry shouting at Albus
- Harry giving an old blanket as a gift to a teen because that is totally something you would do mhmm
- Oh would you look at that! That insignificant old musty blanket turned out to be a plot device!!
- Ron giving a love potion as a gift even though he would've known how dangerous it is by now thorough personal experience.
- The whole thing being written in play format is the cherry on top of all this nonsense.
TL;DW, Albus Severus is an annoying prat and Harry is a jerk of a father. The only good things about this book are Scorbus, and Malfoy and Harry sucking it up and working together to save their sons, and Scorpius is also kinda likeable, I guess. Apart from that, this book is just a bad fanfiction and doesn’t do justice to the characters we knew and loved.
SPOILERS!!
A huge rant warning
- Cedric Diggory would NEVER be a Death Eater. Even thinking that he would've turned into a dark wizard had he been alive, is an insult to Cedric's memory.
- Cedric killing Neville has nothing to do with Snape living. Vodemort would still go after the Elder Wand and kill Snape when the wand doesn't work as expected.
- Nagini living doesn't have anything to do with Harry being killed. Lily's protected would still live inside Voldemort and it would still save Harry from death.
- Delphi
- Harry -- who knows how it feels to live without parents -- would never tell his son "sometimes I wish you weren't my son".
- Hermione was never interested in politics and therefore, it doesn't make sense for her to be the Minister for Magic. Maybe movie!Hermione would've done that, but never book!Hermione.
- book!Ron was never an idiot who id the butt of the joke.
- Delphi.
- All the original Time Turners were smashed in the battle of the Department of Mysteries.
- The way these Time Turners work is contradictory to the original series. They should only be able to go back a few hours and then age into the future. This weird five minute rule never existed and going back several decades should be impossible since you would also are the amount of time you went back.
- There's also this one Time Turner which doesn't have the five minute rule so that Harry can watch his parents be killed again lmao how convenient.
- DELPHI
- Why on earth would Harry ever stop his son from being friends with someone?
- Hermione, the brightest witch of her age, would totally hide a highly dangerous and useful plot device in a place where two teens can go and get it.
- DELPHI DIGGORY HOW AND WHY DOES SHE EVEN EXIST? Bellatrix would've been very much pregnant at the Malfoy Manor scene in DH, and yet we never saw that??
- Harry shouting at Ginny
- Harry shouting at Albus
- Harry giving an old blanket as a gift to a teen because that is totally something you would do mhmm
- Oh would you look at that! That insignificant old musty blanket turned out to be a plot device!!
- Ron giving a love potion as a gift even though he would've known how dangerous it is by now thorough personal experience.
- The whole thing being written in play format is the cherry on top of all this nonsense.
TL;DW, Albus Severus is an annoying prat and Harry is a jerk of a father. The only good things about this book are Scorbus, and Malfoy and Harry sucking it up and working together to save their sons, and Scorpius is also kinda likeable, I guess. Apart from that, this book is just a bad fanfiction and doesn’t do justice to the characters we knew and loved.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture and Bullying
Moderate: Murder, Death, Child death, Death of parent, and Kidnapping
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
jonsnowsmanbun's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying
Moderate: Child death and Death