paulviebranz 's review for:

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts I and II by Jack Thorne

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If I could, I would give this book an eighth of a star. Upon reading "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," I can only assume that Jack Thorne lived under a rock until quite recently, and has never been exposed at all to the mythos of the Wizarding World beyond its Wikipedia page, and yet somehow, by some unknown magic of his own, he managed to con J. K. Rowling into singing off on a half-baked Potterverse rip-off of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Dopplegangland." That is the only way I can justify the grossly out-of-character depictions of no less than Ron, Voldemort, Snape, and Harry himself. No character and no event is sacred, and all are trod upon with equal abandon. A supremely disappointing addition to this series that I will just pretend does not exist altogether.