Harry Potter Abridged! Cursed Child Part 2

[sweettalkeress]

[Somehow, Albus manages to survive his first year at Hogwarts. At the start of second year…]

Harry: Albus, I’m concerned. It doesn’t seem like you have many friends other than that Malfoy boy.

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[aikaterini]

/Someone…not in Slytherin, perhaps?/

Because heaven forbid people stop caring about Houses. Again, why did the writers think that this was a good idea? Why did JKR even bother trying to retcon what happened in DH by saying that Slytherins did show up for the battle if this play was just going to dump on Slytherin again?

/Scorpius: I just notice that Rose is kind of cute./

Scorpius: She's also an egotistical, prejudiced snot and was completely rude to me when we first met and hasn't changed her attitude since then, but it's not like rudeness stopped her parents from hooking up, so why not?

/Albus: Anyway, why would you want her when you have me?/

I'm not even a slash fan generally (most of my ships are het) and I find myself asking the same question.

/Draco: This is no laughing matter! My son is being bullied because people think he’s the son of Voldemort!/

So, what? The more you fuss about it, the more that people are going to wonder if it's true. Just point out how stupid it is or ignore it.

/Harry: Well sometimes I wonder when you became black./

*snorts*

/Hermione: I’m pretty sure I’ve always been black./

Yeah...no. It would be one thing if JKR said, "I have no problem with a black actress playing Hermione. I'm sure she'll do a great job!" and left it at that. But to go one step further and claim, "Oh, yeah, Hermione was always black!" is just disingenuous. JKR may not reread her books, but her fans do.

/I mean you’ve got silver hair with blue streaks in it that goes all the way down to your mid-back!/

Was there even a point to giving her that hair? Both Tom and Bellatrix had black hair. So, why couldn't the play just say that she has dark hair?

[nx74defiant]

Was there even a point to giving her that hair? Both Tom and Bellatrix had black hair. So, why couldn't the play just say that she has dark hair?

If I saw a fanfiction story with that description - V daughter - silver & blue hair, it would be one I automatically skip. I wouldn't read it. The whole Cursed Child sounds like a really bad fan fic.

[aikaterini]

That's why I thought that this was a joke when I first learned about what happens in the play. I mean, dear Lord, I thought that "The Prince's Tale" and HBP sounded like fanfiction while I was reading them. This surpasses both of them.

So many times I've seen HP fans mock HP fanfics for having these exact elements: an OC who has unique hair, an OC who's the long-lost relative of a canon character, time travel that doesn't make any sense, canon characters who've been made OOC, etc. But this story has all of those things and it's published. It's been approved by J.K. Rowling herself.

So, as far as I'm concerned, anybody who loves this play but rips apart HP fanfics because they have these exact same elements has no room to talk.