Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
 

Well it's happening. The 8th book will be released July 31st (Harry and JK's birthday)! So at least we know what we'll be doing in August. Unless you live in the UK and can see the London play. :P

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.2526724

Heading to Amazon RIGHT NOW to preorder. :tcool:

EDIT: No physical media preorder available yet. Added to my wishlist and will monitor... must needs hardcover!

Oh cool, I thought it was just gonna be a theater play.

I'm not very surprised that they're going to novelize it as well... it's easier to sell books than tickets to a play.

It's not really novelized. It's the script to the play. But it might be novelized later in the "Special Edition". But at least it's something for those who can't afford to fly out to London.

Hopefully that. Either way, instant must-buy.

I'm so glad I have something to look forward to read this summer. I probably couldn't have made it to England to see the play, so this is perfect.

I wouldn't mind reading a play. I also totally expect this play to be filmed and released on video. That would be free money for them. If they novelized it, they probably hire someone else to do it. Otherwise, Rowling would truly be writing another harry potter book, and I don't get the impression she ever wants to do that.

Inb4 it comes out in theaters next year.

Plot summary of The Cursed Child. Yikes.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-the-play.html

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That sounds extremely convoluted. I'm desperately hoping one of two things will come of this:

#1. Totally bogus
#2. True, but works better when actually read/watched.

But this... yikes is right.

I couldn't get halfway through that without starting to feel my head spin. Geez... this is why more often than not a "never the end" ending is better than some weird continuation like this.

What the f*ck was that. How canon is this book?

More like "Harry Potter and the Parallel Universe", wtf XD ?

I like it.

100% canon. Rowling wrote the story.

All this proves is any long running series should end completely before it turns to crap. This always happens when an old series is revived...they always screw things up.

That just reads like fan-fiction.

The clever thing about the Time-Turner in Azkaban was that it had limitations. It could only go back a few hours, and you couldn't run into yourself while doing it.

Now it's just... what a mess. I really hope this isn't a legitimate leak. But like the movies themselves I guess the series had to go into the toilet at some point. Rowling just couldn't let the series be.

Isn't Voldemort incapable of love? How the f*ck does he have a kid? The plot literally f*cking centers around inconsistant time travel rules. Goddamn Rowling pulled a Lucas here.

I'm still hopeful this is bogus.

C'mon... Voldemort ain't having no kid. Dude doesn't even have a NOSE, do you really think he's got functioning junk? :trazz:

Maybe he raped someone. Ugh still bad story telling.

I still cringe with that awful name... Albus Severus Potter.

She's so desperate to make something people will read. After Harry Potter she wrote two or three other books under pseudonyms that didn't sell well and were laughed at by critics.

The problem is that she had a pretty good idea of the general 7-book plotline when she was writing the first, I feel like. Since that story is done she has to write this BS stuff because she can't figure out something else the Potter kids can do.

Also, how the hell will this make sense as a play? It doesn't make sense on paper.

Given that, and how plays are extremely restricted in what they can successfully communicate, I am pretty sure this is bogus. Way too complicated.

Plays have fewer set pieces and locations, and are dialogue heavy, not action heavy.

I actually hope it comes out in novel form just to tarnish the franchise a bit. All long-running franchises have their downfall eventually, especially ones that are "revived" years after they had planned endings just because they want to make some money off the brand again.

Trust me, 10 years from now Harry Potter will be ruined similar to Star Wars fans views of the prequel trilogy, or any other long running franchise that had its crap years.

Did it come out today? Was the crappy leaked plot true?

You don't need to be capable of love to be capable of sex. Not that it would be his intent anyway. All Voldemort would be after was a biological successor (Heir of Slytherin line), and that would be the end of it.

Storyline's still a lot of bull, though. It would probably do fine without the time travel aspect.

So Voldy DID procreate? Because all the reviews I'm finding online seem to point towards that idiotic leaked plot being legit.

This is a sad day for me... waiting on my libraries to get me a reserved copy. It looks like I might have been wise indeed to wait and read it for free before I buy a copy.

wow reading this thread is disappointing. I didn't know anything about the plot yet of the new book and was really looking forward to this. Now not so much.

Sigh. Just so much sigh.

Major letdown.

I'm still gonna read it for myself and see if it plays out better than I'm thinking but still... I'm just sitting here trying to comfort this poor shark who got jumped.

Wow, so the leaked plot WAS true. Jeez, it sounds like a 16-year old's fan-fiction.

Still looking forward to the film adaptation in 15 years though.

That's the worst part of it. It reads like bad fan fiction. BAD. FAN. FICTION.

It's all Harry's fault. He named his children with ridiculous homages. No kid should go through life named Albus Severus. :tlol:

Read it. Liked it. Not perfect, but glad to have it.

It's ****ing trash. Blew through it today in about 3 and a half hours. Fan fiction level garbage. It has so many plot holes and such a complete disregard for established canon that I kind of can't believe JK gave it the nod.

I would have preferred it in novel form, but despite that, I didn't think it was that bad. I always though Voldy and Bellatrix had a thing for each other, and now it's been confirmed that they did and they had a kid. I agree that the Time Turner stuff deviated from canon and also feel that it shouldn't have had Harry in the title at all as it was mainly about the next generation. But I did like the kids and thought Scorpius was really cool.

Not 100% crap
 

The characters of Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter are both great. I'd read an entire series with those two kids. It always bugged me that we never saw one decent Slytherin in the canon Harry Potter sevenology. And seeing Draco as a protective father was awesome.

BUT.

Voldemort does not procreate, he is immortal, a shell of his own being, and has no friends or love. He is incapable of love, and has no desire for an heir. He is his own heir.

The basic premise of the story was bogus. The understanding of the Harry Potter world and some of its characters (Ron, Voldemort) was completely absent. But at least it had a couple of nice new characters.

But sex doesn't always have to involve love per se. I think Voldy did it with Bellatrix because he wanted someone to be his successor once he died. The fact that he was having an affair with a married woman also points to the fact that he didn't really love her. He used her for his own gain and that happens all the time in the world.

Voldemort was not interested in an heir; he believed he would live forever.

So this is absurd on two counts:

#1. Voldy doesn't feel love.
#2. Voldy wouldn't have wanted an heir.

Fundamental misunderstanding of the character.

I ship Albus and Scorpius together. Rose can go sit on a cactus and rotate.