It’s such a small thing, but it really bothers me that Ginny “my family will feed you” Weasley grows up to be the crazy sugar free mom while Hermione “my parents and I sent my starving best friend sugar free snacks” Granger gets to be the cool mom. No way, nope, that makes no sense. The cursed child was me for reading that book.
@@vere4086 Right?? I wrote a facebook post about really loving getting to go on an adventure with these characters again or some bullshit and it comes up once a year on my timeline and reminds me how easy it was to dupe me. I always read things twice, once for enjoyment and then again for critical analysis.... this recurring timeline post serves as a reminder of why that is necessary.
I agree 100%. The other thing I noticed and hated right off the bat was Rose’s attitude about picking compartments/friends on the train because everyone would want to be friends with them. Yes, I could see Hermione’s child worrying about making her lifelong friends like her parents did, but Hermione was so kind, and she knew what it was like to be rejected by her peers. I can’t believe that her kid would have been such an asshole. The first 10 pages of this screenplay turned me off so much I thought I was being punked.
@@forestgrump4723 yeah I also do that and I have my opinion: CURSED CHILD NOT CANON SOMEONE PROLLY JUST PUT THE IMPERIUS CURSE ON JKR OR IS IMPERSONATING HER WITH POLYJUICE
I had a dream once where Harry, Ron, and Hermione grew up to be professional magical bank robbers, and I have a feeling it would've been immensely better than "the cursed child" lol
There's also the real problem with Time Turners: They're not supposed to be nearly as powerful as this story makes them. You can only go back a few hours. That mistake alone should keep it from being canon
Right?! Also the time turner's not even supposed to open up the possibility of parallel universes! The main rule is: everything that happened already happens again, nothing can be changed! Omg! They can't even get the type of time travel right! (sorry, haha, rant over)
Exactly! I kept on thinking about how they had to turn it 3 times just to go back 3 hours, how many times would they have had to do that to go back years🙄😷
I mean they do mention in the play that these time turners are more advanced than the ones from POA. It's plausible that new spells could have been invented in the 20+ years since then to make even more powerful time turners. Technology changes over time. Why can't magic?
Well, I mean, one *could* go back longer... but according to Rowling’s *own goddam words on the subject* (which makes her greenlighting this utter shitstain even worse as she knowingly broke the rules of her own universe) every single person that ever attempted it *did not survive the ordeal,* and not only that, their actions had such a profound (albeit temporary) impact on the flow of time that Tuesday would last for, say, 65 hours, and Wednesday would only last for 3 hours. None of these consequences were present in the play. So yeah, one *could* do it, just like I suppose one *could* use a plugged in toaster as a bath toy if they really wanted to, but... ALSO jesus christ this is why I had such a huuuuge problem with everybody, including those that are supposed to be the most intelligent people in the wizarding world, buying into the rumor that some innocent kid could possibly be the son of somebody who DIED EIGHT YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN YEAH THAT’S PLAUSIBLE SO LET’S SHUN HIM ryfhgriisksnnfnhdjhvudiossododkgm... of course, that happened early enough in the book that I was still naively under the impression that there’d be some continuity in terms of how magic, specifically time travel, works. But nope. EVEN THEN Hermione, at the *very least,* who, in the Deathly Hallows epilogue admonished Ron (gently, of course, I’m sure she knew he was joking) about turning Rose against Scorpius before they even started school, would not have believed such a slanderous rumor about him. But NOPE she’s all like (oh god it hurts) “Did you *_hear_* the rumors about his parentage, I mean sure they’re just *_rumors,_* but just in case it were true, would you really want your child to be *_friends_* with *_HIM?!_*” Just... god fucking damn, this play is awful.
Honestly, calling The Cursed Child fan fiction at this point is an INSULT to fan fiction. I've read Fan Fiction twenty to one hundred times better than this plot hole pile of rubbish.
My thoughts exactly. I've read many fanfictions that are on par with the source material, but this travesty ain't one of them. I'm not saying the writers are bad, but they are sure as hell not well-versed in the world of Harry Potter. They twisted all the original characters into unrecognizable messes. I particularly hated what they did to Harry, they made the humble, lovable hero of the series into a child-abusing monster.
There is only one thing I like in this annoying play, the concept of Harry and Draco eventually becoming friends, because Draco never really had friends just a couple of Yes Boys. I did however hate the execution of that concept.
Love HP series. Never read this book. Never will read this book. However, I really enjoy people hating on it... it's kinda therapeutic for some reason. Great vid
My friend and I were writing a Harry Potter fan fiction on Wattpad. I figured Albus would be a Slytherin. She wanted to have Rose and Scorpius together. She also wanted Voldemort to have had a daughter with Bellatrix who would be the antagonist of our book-I said that was a stupid idea and would never happen. For four years now, I’ve low key wondered if SHE wrote this awful book. That just tells you this reads like a bad fan fiction.
The thing is, in this book, Harry HATES his son for being a slytherin... I mean.. Didn’t he say he would love him If he was slytherin, anyway, in the end of the 7th book? Like, the writers completely ignored that..Sorry for my bad English I am not a native speaker :/
@@queerlibtardhippie9357 The play icks up immediately after the epilogue of the book. So Harry is like "Al, I'm going to love you no matter where you end up." and then after his son gets sorted "DISAPPOINTMENT."
@@_aWiseMan i sort of understand how that makes albus seem more slytherin, but a house is really about the qualities you value and exhibit. also, being close to family is actually something slytherins value. i just don’t really see albus as ambitious or all that cunning? i’m not really sure what house i think he would fit best in though...
I think the worst part of the book was how out of character everyone in the original series was. I hated Ron, so so so much in this book. They made him look like a bumbling fool, and i hated it. Also harry's development and the fact that he had to literally had to hide under the benches of the church because a 20 year old was supposedly more powerful than him, despite the fact that he was head of magical law enforcement.
This is a fanfiction. Jack Thorne and John Tiffany just wrote a fanfiction. And everything would be fine, I've read many worse fanfics, but the problem is Rowling put her name on this thing. It seems WB has more control over HP franchise than Rowling and it's sad.
That as literally the thought that went through my head when I saw it on the shelf. "Based on...whatever by J.K. Rowling" I was like "Nope, I get enough of that for free off the internet and have a much better time with that (chapter reviews and author responses and just generally being able to see the author's personality, which you don't get with something like this), I'm gonna write this off and forget about it." And I did until I saw a thumbnail/title that implied that it was terrible and then I forgot about it again until another thumbnail, in an endless loop of blissful ignorance interspersed with brief periods of 'ew' like seeing a dead rat on the sidewalk.
I still can stomach Harry being a 'bad' dad because some then-abused people actually become abusive themselves later on. No, I draw the line at Ginny letting Harry become a bad dad. She's canonically one of the only few characters who can stand up to Harry when he was angry and the writers just totally ignore that crucial fact.
@@drquack1217 For boruto, lol yeah Thanks, i think people follow writing advise 101 too much and forget to think...even if its good writing, is it good for my audience. No one wanted to go back to see a kid we saw grow up who was sweet become old looking in his 40s and a dad who doesn't have time for his kid cliche...especially when he can make clones and had near infinite energy to fight for days on end no sleep...yet we have to believe he sacrifices all that just for conflict. Its ok for a movie but it turns people off when stretched for a series. A safe harry potter adventure would have worked well and showcase yeah he's still great.
I don't think Harry was a horrible father. Remember, Albus was a very difficult child that treated him horrible whenever he tries to reach out. He snapped said things he didn't mean, but later apologized.
I hate Albus, and how he thinks Harry had everything easy and everyone loved him at Hogwarts. The exact opposite is true. Hasn't anyone told him? Did he not notice the "Potter Stinks," buttons when he went back in time? And why? WHY are there so many plotholes? It seems like no one edited this at all. Is this the version of the script they're performing? Did they fix any of the obvious plot holes before they actually performed the play? Because in the book its pretty unbelievably bad. Like surprisingly bad. Like how did such a huge property not see any editing at all seemingly?
I remember reading HP and reading about how Harry got accused for being setting the monster on everyone and how no one listened to him when he said he didnt put his name in the Goblet of Fire. Theres no way u could say he was always loved
He was an outcast in the first book (among Gryffindor students, for loosing a 150 points during one night), in the second book for opportunity, that he is an heir to Slytherin, in the fourth book for alleged cheating to take part in the Tournament, in the fifth book for alleged lying and plotting an in the seventh book for being literally an undesired no. 1. I might missed something, it has been a long time since I read the books.
Words can't describe how much I hate this. And worst of all is that tweet from JK Rowling claiming the screenplay is actually canon and we should accept it as so. Not today, ma'am, not today.
If she didn't write it, it's not canon, no matter what she says. I just hope no one tries to write any sort of continuation in the HP world based on this book. It's easier to ignore only one disaster.
"It doesn't make any sense" is the best description. I believe some mistakes are because of the movies - like Ron, nonverbal spells, the third task looks like in the movie, Voldemort's name. Just the argument about the Durmstrang robes shows that fans put more thought into it than the authors. I still cry because Harry is a terrible father. No. Just no...
Yes, they did such a disservice to Harry in this "story." The Cursed Child did to Harry what The Last Jedi did to Luke. Basically a character assassination. Taking a character who represented something and turning them into the opposite of everything they stood for. And not in a way that is deep. More like in a "that makes no sense, this character would never say or do that" kind of way.
Janhavi Luke Skywalker at least had his entire emotional journey in Return of the Jedi be about his struggle to resist the Dark Side and only overcoming it after failing. Luke was morally complex like that, a man trying to figure himself out. Harry, on the other hand, always struck me as the kind of person who would be overly trusting and too willing to let his children get involved in things, like Sirius did for him with the war, where he looks at his children how he saw himself at their age, as their own full people who can ALSO make their own decisions. He might not know well how to handle his kids realistically given his upbringing, but he strikes me as someone who’d constantly be trying to overcompensate and relate to them and give them more freedom than would be safe. As opposed to sniping at them and not understanding their internal lives, he strikes me as a traumatized parent who would understand them almost as an equal instead of an authority. Meanwhile Ginny would have to rein them in because she grew up in a household where that was commonplace and somewhat effective.
I can see Harry being a terrible father, but not for any of the reasons listed in the book. I can see him overcompensating for his own abusive childhood, by spoiling his children rotten, turning them into Dudleys if Ginny wasn't there to help raise them too.
The only, and only theory I'll accept this curse book canon, if this stupid piece of work is written by Reeta Skeeter in the Harry Potter World............that is the most plausible reason I can think of and I dont mind humor this notion. Reeta is a horrible news reporter, who wouldnt say she tried to write books and plays in the side.
I haven't read this... "play" for obvious reasons, but if Harry can bully McGonagall around, you know something's off. That woman went against a ministry official, went against Voldemort, took away 150 points from her own house cause to hell with favouritism, THAT woman just lets one of her former students to bully her into doing his thing? Nah, I'll stay in this corner of actually well-written, with actual passion for the story and not the money written fanfics :)
I agree with you. Scorpius is the best character. Harry is a horrible father. I’m still mad that teddy wasn’t in it and we barely saw JamesII and Lily II. I also don’t understand how the Malfoys never noticed that Bella was pregnant. Like she lived at the manor I think and Narcissa is her sister she should have noticed that. And why wasn’t Delhi raised by aunt but instead with another random person.
Jolien Van Damme also looking at the timeline, what baffled me was, that when Hermione used the poly juice potion to become Bellatrix in book 7 there must have been some sort of repercussion or something?! I know it’s not mentioned but if something simple as animal hair can mess up such a delicate potion - then polyjuicing into a pregnant person (which is ultimately involving 3 people) must throw some sort of massive curveball?!
@@jolienvandamme2909 Why? I don't remember what part of Bellatrix Hermione used, but as long as it's just Bellatrix's genetic material and not her baby's, there shouldn't be any side effect. Now I know this is talking science into magic and I assume magic would still make it so the copied person would also look pregnant, but there shouldn't be any side effects like with the cat hair.
Also, during the Battle of Malfoy manor, a couple of months before the Battle of Hogwarts, how was she able to move around so well if she was pregnant?
It was a funny little fan fiction, where not everything has to add up. Just a thought experiment. At least I read it as such. Until she said it's canon. Now it's just a low-effort spin-off.
The worst part for me was always Cedric. He was a true Hufflepuff (not just an “I’ll take all the rest”, he possessed qualities which would have made him a suitable candidate for other houses but his defining characteristics made him Hufflepuff) so there is literally no way he would be a traitor.
Voldie was asexual. He clearly didn’t think of sex (unless he wanted to manipulate people which is never stated but I bet he did these things to gain what he wanted). He viewed himself the most powerful wizard and thought he was invincible. He never wanted or needed a child to be his heir. It just feels like someone read a Voldemort x Bellatrix fanfiction and decided this is canon now and their oc child is the new villain now.
As an asexual, I can say that it's very possible for asexuals to have sex. And I think voldermort could have had a child to protect his legacy. Also on a darker note, Bellatrix could have very much done what Voldermorts mother did.
@@dylantd9189 Legacies are for people that die, Voldies whole stick is running away from death and is arrogant enough to think that he can succeed. Also I don't think there is any scenario where Bella could drug Voldie and have her way with him, even if it did she wouldn't survive the aftermath. Is Voldie even human enough to have all his bits? Honestly it would make more sense if Delphine was lied to.
I'd always thought Voldemort had sacrificed his ability to have children, either by performing some kind of ritual to remove part or all of his genitals, or simply make himself either sterile or merely impotent.
it didn't need Albus either. He could've been a side character, but I'd have adored it if Scorpius was the main character, working through being the next Malfoy and dealing with prejudice against him and his family and proving that he is more than his last name and that blond hair.
Harry Potter had to be in it to be called "Harry Potter and the...". Without that the marketing would be adversely affected and JKR and her cronies might not make as much money out of this second-rate fanfic
so that it sells ofc. might have been a rhetorical question, but thats the answer. we need the book being called "Harry Potter and ..." and him being involved in the story that much, as well as the description "the eighth story" so it sells more. as if it would make a shit ton of money anyway for taking place in the wizarding world.
I honestly have no idea how JKR gave permission to this load of crap. How can you read a story that completely butchers your characters and plot, makes absolutely no sense and contradicts the books YOU have written and think "yeah let's do this". I'm just so puzzled. Literally every single character does something or says something that is completely nonsensical to their personality. The biggest one IMO is Harry saying that he wished Albus wasn't his son. I reject this intensely. My respect for JKR dropped after reading this and I just want to know why she did it.
A lot of people/market wanted a piece of the Harry Potter fan PIE. They want to make the most money in every which way. That’s how “franchises” works. So, more HP World Parks, Theatrical Plays, Movies. And since JK Rowling doesn’t actually want to write another HP book anymore, publishers are telling her that “hey, let’s published all the scripts of these plays and movie”, super fans will still buy this! It’s all about “milking the cow”. Just look at how popular new broadway plays and movies today gets a publishing deals.
Harry saying that to his son broke my heart. It was very insulting to the character. I think it's maybe because Rowling apparently has said she hasn't re-read the books. So maybe she's forgotten her own characters and plot points. I honestly feel like the fandom which has re-read the books countless times, probably knows the books and characters better than she does.
I don’t think I’ll be reading this book it would ruin the series for me. I’m shocked by how weird this story is. Also the worst part in my opinion is how Harry says I wish I didn’t have a son. Harry would never say that.
This book was so terrible. I completely agree about the character regression. The plot doesn’t make sense either. It’s probably one of the worst things I’ve ever read.
I can tolerate Delphini's existence by thinking of her as Voldemort's reward to Bellatrix, a way of keeping Bella absolutely loyal to him, the father of her child. Bellatrix even says in HBP that if she had a son she would gladly give him to Voldemort when talking to Narcissa. Maybe Voldemort gave her his child as some sort of twisted absolute loyalty card. He may have also needed more of his own blood relatives to use in a ritual like the "bone of the father" stuff.
The timeline of it is the most troublesome thing, though. Because isn't she passing herself off as a student? She'd be in her early twenties by the time she meets Albus for his fourth year.
@@kateworkman921 Yeah, and even if she somehow exists, it still doesn't answer the major question of what she's been doing for her entire life. Obviously, someone would have to had to raised her, which begs the question of what kind of childhood she had. If no one knew about her existence, the most likely situation is that a death eater raised her. That begs the question of who. They're arguably one of the most important people in the story, but thy aren't mentioned at all. Even her magical abilities aren't really explained. She never went to Hogwarts, so that begs the question of how she got to be so powerful. Even if she had 100% of Voldemort's natural abilities, he got to be so powerful from the wealth of knowledge at Hogwarts.
I disagree with you! Voldemort already knew that Bellatrix was 100% loyal to him, he did not have to give her a child to make her loyal. Also.... I can´t picture Voldemort and Bellatrix having sex. Oh my God! Besides, Delphi is really really powerful, and Voldemort knows that if he ever had son or a daughter, this child would be very powerful and maybe capeable of destroying him, so I´m pretty sure he would avoid any chance, even the slightest one, of having a child.
@@cayodomingues I disagree with one point of yours. I don't think Voldemort actually trusted that ANY of his followers were 100% loyal to him. Everything else, though, spot on.
They actually didn’t read the books, they watched a couple of the movies and saw descriptions of stuff boom and wrote this, they didn’t even watch all the movies like literally search it up
This is why authors need to re-read their own series when they’re trying to create (or endorse) new stuff after a long break. They forget and their rabid fans become more knowledgeable than they are.
Merphy: "I won't make a review and a it doesn't make sense video" Me: Ok, most of the book doesn't make sense so a review would be a it doesn't make sense video
I think the reason they had Hermione become essentially like Snape in this parallel timeline, was to imply if anyone went through what Snape had gone through with Lily ( meaning, finding someone else) everyone would have turned up like Snape, so it somehow justifies Snapes's bullying ?? I think that's what they were trying to show.. except it's dumb and doesn't make any sense, because Snape was never really a kind person to begin with, contrary to Hermione.. Like seriously, she would be the last person to bully students???
exactly, she was bullied as a student so why would she bully only because she didn’t end up with ron???? she’s strong, independent and most importantly, a good person. her becoming snape makes absolutely no sense whatsoever
yeah and Hermione was destined for success without Ron from the jump. Ron in no way shaped her into the person she was... she was always such an incredible and kind person. This version of her makes no sense
The Cursed Child is literally the worst thing I've ever read in my life. Ever single decision they make is either a plot hole or convenience or contradicts the original series
When I read it, I put the book down after Harry told his son that he wished he wasn’t his son. Like you said in the video, Harry was in an ABUSIVE HOUSEHOLD. I refuse to believe he was a horrible father. If anything, he’d be one of the most caring fathers because of everything he’s been through. And that Ron thing is a good point too. I loved Ron in the series and they really just dumbed him down. Cursed Child isn’t canon to me. 👍🏼 You said everything about the book that bugged me perfectly
I read a big chunk of the cursed child about two years ago, didn't finish it though and I seem to completely have forgotten the entire plot. That's how my mind works, tbh, it just tends to forget details of really bad experiences. Like Harry telling his son he wishes he was never born? Are you kidding me, JKR?
@@ellag3265 i agree. i liked the message of the epilogue and the cursed child did it’s best to tear that down. the reason i disliked cursed child harry so much was because of how different he was to book harry.
the time travel logic in prisoner of azkaban makes perfect sense. and there are really no situations throughout the rest of the series where it can be used (remember the time turner CANNOT be used to change the past you cannot create a new timeline it is a fixed timeline time travel system.) this completely betrays that
Cursed what? I never even heard of it. I think you are just delirious and hallucinating. 8th book? Oh no, dear, you have mistaken the number of books with the number of movies, you see.
After hearing very few details, like Cedric becoming a death eater (NO HUFFLEPUFF HAS EVER GONE DARK) and the horrible plotline of the Voldy/Bella lovechild convinced me to stay far away from this, and I refuse to consider this Canon, no matter what Rowling says
I watched the first half of a review, and when he said "If you don't like it, click off now, because it'll only get worse" I took his word for it. Cursed Child and "The Last Airbender" (the live action movie) are analogous to one another in my head.
Not true about the Hufflepuffs. All houses have produced dark wizards and witches. It's just that Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw do a good job of hiding it.
I’m glad this “book” exists. I remember camping out at a bookstore the night of its release. The entire series had already come out by the time I started reading it, so I never had the chance to actively engage in the community before then. It even inspired a yearly festival in a nearby town, so I’m grateful for that. But my little 13 year old self tried so hard to justify that the book wasn’t trash. I still ended up resenting it, and that was the first time I felt heartbreak.
Yes!! I went to a midnight book launch, it was so fun and I read it the entire journey home. I couldn't help but feel dissatisfied and so heartbroken. This wasnt the characters I grew up with and the story didnt even fit. Not to mention the absolute queerbaiting with Albus and Scorpius, as a gay kid that really hurt.
Not even one minute in: Merphy: Scorpius is an awesome character, but that's it. I'm gonna rant about what I don't like now. Me: at least she agrees that Scorpius is an angel ❤
Meh, Scorpius is fine, but the big thing is they made the characters the opposites, Albus and Scorpius shouldn’t be made friends with each other from the get-go. I mean, Albus should be teased for being in Slytherin, it seems like his parents gave him James’s old wand.
I saw the play recently, and the spectical makes up 95% of the appeal. But the performance of Scorpius was very annoying and made it hard to appreciate him.
Everyone involved with the creation of this abomination should have to look at the thumbnail of this video and THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. Because that look on Merphy's face will shame them better than anything else I've seen on the internet.
What the curse child feels like when listening to this: The writers of the play never *actually* read the books. If they did, it was once, and they skipped HUGE swaths of information which isn't "convenient" for their explanations, half watched the movies, and decided "Oh! I don't like A, B, and C... LET'S FIX ALL THESE WITH TIME TRAVEL AND TIME TURNERS ARE MY SOLUTION! And I need to give it plot, so let's make this much more complicated than it really should be! And I have this OC that I want to just shove in there, but she has to be stupid powerful but evil!"
Rowling's output after Deathly Hallows took a sharp nosedive. My head canon is that she rode off into the sunset on a hippogriff, never wrote (or tweeted) again, and remained everyone's unproblematic favorite.
They should write a sequel to The Cursed Child. It should begin with Albus Potter waking up from a nap aboard the Hogwarts Express at the start of his first year and telling his brother James that he just had the strangest dream.
No, in the the Slytherin dorms, then he would be literally sweating on the way to the Hospital, and the continuations keep coming, and everyone avoids him, because the think he’s cursed.
I really wish they would relegate the events of the sequel trilogy to an alternate universe Said trilogy only makes sense if it takes place in an alternate universe in which Anakin was never redeemed, Luke killed him in anger on Death Star 2 and Palpatine never died
From my perspective the closed loop is one of few time travel variants that I tolerate as it solves time paradox completly. Not realy related to review but I still had to write it.
@@MuhammedChand Yeah, people who already used it wouldn't do so again as they are avare now that they are not changing anything. People who didn't use it before would have similar experience to Harry and Hermione.
At least my immortal's author may have been trolling, plus their author notes predicted Harry being a horcrux which I find hilarious that in that insanity a major plot point of book 7 was actually guessed correctly
The Harry Potter books are literally about "the Power of Friendship and Love" yet he decides to separate his son from his only friend... yeah sounds about right.
Like Luke Skywalker leaving his friends and family to suffer at the hands of an apprentice that he corrupted while also never taking responsibility for his actions
Murphy, I agree with almost everything you said. A couple more stray thoughts: - I HATE that the Potters are anti-sugar. Everyone in the wizarding world is immensely pro-sugar. Chocolate is a friction' medicine! - I don't like the Hermione becomes Minister of Magic- or at least that she's just a very basic minister of magic. I feel like she would only be minister if there was a significant change in politics, like the wizarding world gave equal rights to everyone of muggle descent or there was a bill passed on the rights of house elves. -They just casually lump all werewolves, giants and beasts as "bad". Harry even says "the werewolves have gone completely underground". That is TERRIBLE. You would think that a group of kids who all called Remus Lupin their favorite teacher and loved Hagrid would be leaders an a world where the treatment of magical creatures were different Only thing I disagree on: I LOVE closed-loop time travel. It is the only time-travel that makes sense to me. I could also talk about time travel for, maybe two hours. It's fascinating.
I just have problems with Harry threatening Mcgonagall that he would come downhard on the school with his ministry power if she did'nt keep albus and scorpius apart. Excuseme he frickin' cruciated Amycus Carrow for disrespecting Mcgonagall..for the first time he "meant" to cause pain and "enjoy it". Of course, Mcgonagall would take the threat lying down..she would frickin' roast him.😡 Edit- He would come down hard on hogwarts..like seriously..he is being a worse version of Fudge. I just had to say this.
This sounds like a fanfiction written by a child who never looked at the books or watched a movie but just listened to another child haphazardly tell the story. I will most definitely NEVER read this book.
I've noticed a weird and upsetting trend. Whenever someone writes the sequel to a franchise that was perfectly ended, they always take the main character and make them into bad parents, just so that the new character has soemthing to complain about even tho their life is actually pretty okay compared to their parent.
@@mikefrost5575 yeah, Naruto,Harry Potter,aang, the list goes on, like why even establish that your character is good and would be great dad's or mom to their kid and just wreck that to creat family drama, seriously we already don't have enough good parent child representation especially father and son , so why make more , it like their kids story won't be interesting if they don't have the my parents neglected me backstory
I forgot most of the events of Cursed Child, probably because I blocked it subconsciously. I only remember Harry being trash and Bellatrix and Voldemort’s love child. And I wish I’d known about the love child before I bought it, because I’d never have wasted my time.
Bellatrix might have used the spell Infante Concelious to carry her child within her womb but without looking pregnant. There's also the spell Fetius Surrogatus that allows another woman to carry her child instead. Alternatively, after leaving Malfoy manor she conceived the child and used the spell Labourious Instantanium to instantly foster the child within minutes as if it had been nine months. Voldemort could have split the baby across seven different women (he's kind of obsessed with doing that) so she would only look like she was 1/7 of 9 months pregnant.Or she obviously used a time turner and there was a second pregnant Bellatrix that was in hiding the whole time.
No one talks about the fact that Ron and Padma were married in the second timeline. They only knew each other because of the Yule Ball, so why would they end up getting married if Ron went with Hermione instead in that timeline???
@@RoaringMind I mean, they knew OF each other.... but Padma was a ravenclaw. When would they have had the opportunity to get to know each other on a deeper level?
Forest Grump yes, it’s one of those occurrences that could be explained in myriad ways. Don’t get me wrong, the Cursed Child’s timelines are trash. But this is one determination that I can overlook.
@@RoaringMind but they only went together because Parvati got Padma to go with Ron?? Like he didn't even ask her his mate was going with her sister so he went with her
wait... i just realized this... so voldy kills snape because he wants the elder wand but snape is killed by nagini so... NAGINI WOULD BE THE TRUE MASTER OF THE ELDER WAND
Wait, You just made me realise one Thing, Voldy Killed Snape Because he wanted the Elder Wand, and he Killed Snape before Nagini was Destroyed, and in the Timeline where Voldy wins he only wins because Nagini wasnt Destroyed, So, why the Heck Voldy didnt Killed Snape on the Voldy Win Timeline???
I'm kind sad this was terrible. Not just as an HP fan, but the guy who wrote it absolutely nailed adapting His Dark Materials for the BBC, so it makes me wonder why he pulled that off and not this
He's really well regarded for a lot of his other work, and he had done adaptations before. I really don't know what happened. I guess sometimes you just miss, but this seems like way too big a project to not have people in place to be like "no, don't do that, you're ruining it." I have to wonder how much of it was Rowling's fault. Did she just sign off on it, or did she contribute some of the terrible ideas? The Fantastic Beasts films (that she wrote) aren't exactly testaments to her ability to maintain the quality of her initial series.
I hate this book with everything in my soul. I would have been content to simply say this was a play based on Harry Potter fan fiction that was written for funsies...BUT THEN JK MADE IT CANON. I will never accept it. The HP series consists of book 1-7. Periodt.
The only thing I actually loved in this book is near the end, when Hagrid takes baby Harry and says something like "you're gonna need a friend so I'm gonna be yours." THIS, in a story in which every single character were so screwed up, actually sounded like Hagrid. It melted my heart ❤ Also Scorpius was awesome. The rest is trash.
"I don't believe you" was basically only thing I thought while reading it. I never had a suspension of disbelief, nothing felt organic and so many glaring inconsistencies. It will never be canon to me - it's a hazy, horrible fever dream that I woke up from in a cold sweat and am now trying my hardest to forget.
the cursed child is a bad fanfiction none of the old characters are the same the only likeable character is scorpius and none of the plots make any sense
@@afsanaashika4878 honestly you’re right. i’ve read better fanfiction than the cursed child, because a lot of fanfiction is actually good. but i’ve also read better _bad_ fanfiction that the cursed child. and fanfiction can get pretty bad sometimes so that’s saying something
In the world of Potter as we know it, there are no recorded instances of a person who was sorted into Hufflepuff ever becoming a Death Eater, or any other kind of Dark Wizard for that matter.(it is copied and authorized)
@@GayPinaplle28 Snape was bullied and abused almost all his life and also lost the only person who cared about him, Lily. That's what made him choose a darker path. But he's still a good person. All Slytherins are awesome including Snape. I respect your opinion though.
I feel like JK should have made Bellatrix a hufflepuff. She’s very loyal like a hufflepuff and it would show that just because your in a different house doesn’t mean you have only one set path
@@dracomalfoy3776 So what? Did you read books? He wasn't bullied becouse no reason. Even if he was bullied in school , he bullied Harry, Neville and Hermione when he was a teacher. A grown person. Read books again. Just becouse he was obbsesed with Lilly (that was the only reason he was at good side) , it doesn't make him good person. He was brave, but he was terriblle, Terriblle person.
Honestly, as someone who wrote plays and worked with playwright's while at University studying creative writing, they were all appalled at the writing in this script, even the play's execution of dialogue and action is awful
That was my feeling as well, reading it. I also found the stage directions puzzling -- but I figured that the writers must know up to pull off the effects they were putting in. (And reading comments from people who saw the production, the effects were apparently great.). But the story? Too much stuff. Too much stuff that didn't need to be there. My brain is starting to hurt thinking about all the stuff that didn't need to be there. Isn't there some scene that's all about Hermione trying to get Harry to eat a toffee?
Merphy you’re AMAZING for coming out with this and the Snape analysis back to back!!! When you did the poll I thought for sure I’d have to wait between them, but no because you’re awesome! I loved this rant/review so much because I also hated this book and have a hard time articulating why. This was great 👍🏻
It's just like jk Rowling thought that how the heck did Harry potter series had a satisfying ending JK Rowling *(witch laugh)* *Let's publish the cursed child*
it had a satisfying ending? i am not going to be popular with these opinions.. but i think after book4 the series deteriorated with the culmination in the last book.. the ending just sucked and pls spare me the crappylogue. half the pairings dont make sense in any way shape or form. i could name way more things that bug me over the series as a whole but thats just my 2cents
Hannah McDermott Ironically, Ron’s worst fear is what happen to him (and Rupert Grint) in real life, being overshadowed by his surrounding characters (and actors)
Ron would NEVER, EVER give a CHILD a love potion!! To say that he had a rough experience with one is a euphemism so not in a million years he would do such a stupid irresponsible thing. Honestly every character seems to be have written by someone who has never read a HP book or even seen a movie. Embarrassing.
Well she never quite liked Ron for that matter, it is quite clear from the fact he has basically not part in the plot from book 3 to book 6 (I mean, he interact with the other characters but is completely passive in moving the plot forward, and serves mostly as a contrastnig figure to the greatness of Hermione and Harry).
Clément Denis Then why wrote Ron as “Harry’s best friend” if she has no idea how to handle him. It is possible to write a best friend side character that is not as skillful as the hero interesting. Look at Samwell Tarly. He’s not as handsome or cool or good at fighting or being a “chosen one” like his best friend Jon Snow. He even called himself as a coward but he’s the one who discover the mean to kill white walker so GRRM utilized him as a character who gather essential information to help Jon wins in the long night, also become an unintentionally crucial player to Daenerys storyline.
It is literally, I mean this from the bottom of my heart, the worst slap to the face to a fanbase I have ever seen.
Ahem, Game of Thrones would like a word
@@nickswift8398 The books can still redeem that though (if they ever come out). There's no redeeming Curse Child.
Preach. 🙌🏼
Ahem, you mean, Figuratively...?
@@nickswift8398 if we're casting a broader net, so would Star Wars, Star Trek, and Doctor Who.
JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is Canon.
HP fans: Who? Who is she? We don't know her.
It's a JK Rowling from a different timeline
@@almogdov We wish
@Marc Elliott Maybe it was a good decision, but I don't think it would bother anyone if he wouldn't be left out ;)
Just Kidding Rowling
@@almogdov maybe she was on something that day. And remember she's a Leo and they rarely face up for their actions
This book is literally the cursed child of the series.
The kid Albus doesn't live up to his dad, and this kid book doesn't live up to the rest of the series.
10/10, please title books for people.
Nice
Thor: He's adopted
no, that can't be true, because that would be saying that this book somehow has a place in this series
When Rita Skeeters tries to write a documentary about Harry Potter's life. That's how the Cursed Child was created.
Nahh, Rita could actually write a better documentary than the cursed child
This is canon for me
I don't even think Starkid's Lochhart would do this!
Yeah, Rita's better than that.
@@timklebel879 Are you saying Cursed Child is canon for you? Because it's nothing but shit and that's a fact, not an opinion.
It’s such a small thing, but it really bothers me that Ginny “my family will feed you” Weasley grows up to be the crazy sugar free mom while Hermione “my parents and I sent my starving best friend sugar free snacks” Granger gets to be the cool mom. No way, nope, that makes no sense.
The cursed child was me for reading that book.
I’m the cursed child, because I liked it when I first read it
@@vere4086 Right?? I wrote a facebook post about really loving getting to go on an adventure with these characters again or some bullshit and it comes up once a year on my timeline and reminds me how easy it was to dupe me. I always read things twice, once for enjoyment and then again for critical analysis.... this recurring timeline post serves as a reminder of why that is necessary.
Hermione gave Harry chocolate frogs in the first book
I agree 100%. The other thing I noticed and hated right off the bat was Rose’s attitude about picking compartments/friends on the train because everyone would want to be friends with them. Yes, I could see Hermione’s child worrying about making her lifelong friends like her parents did, but Hermione was so kind, and she knew what it was like to be rejected by her peers. I can’t believe that her kid would have been such an asshole. The first 10 pages of this screenplay turned me off so much I thought I was being punked.
@@forestgrump4723 yeah I also do that and I have my opinion: CURSED CHILD NOT CANON SOMEONE PROLLY JUST PUT THE IMPERIUS CURSE ON JKR OR IS IMPERSONATING HER WITH POLYJUICE
I had a dream once where Harry, Ron, and Hermione grew up to be professional magical bank robbers, and I have a feeling it would've been immensely better than "the cursed child" lol
Jonathan D'Haiti well it already happened in the final book in Gringotts scene
In my dream they were scumbags, and it was hilarious
I would much rather read that story than the cursed child
Please write that fanfiction. I want it.
I’d read that
There's also the real problem with Time Turners: They're not supposed to be nearly as powerful as this story makes them. You can only go back a few hours. That mistake alone should keep it from being canon
Right?! Also the time turner's not even supposed to open up the possibility of parallel universes! The main rule is: everything that happened already happens again, nothing can be changed! Omg! They can't even get the type of time travel right! (sorry, haha, rant over)
exactly! JK came out and said they can only go back 24 hours yeah here they're jumping back 20 years?
Exactly! I kept on thinking about how they had to turn it 3 times just to go back 3 hours, how many times would they have had to do that to go back years🙄😷
I mean they do mention in the play that these time turners are more advanced than the ones from POA. It's plausible that new spells could have been invented in the 20+ years since then to make even more powerful time turners. Technology changes over time. Why can't magic?
Well, I mean, one *could* go back longer... but according to Rowling’s *own goddam words on the subject* (which makes her greenlighting this utter shitstain even worse as she knowingly broke the rules of her own universe) every single person that ever attempted it *did not survive the ordeal,* and not only that, their actions had such a profound (albeit temporary) impact on the flow of time that Tuesday would last for, say, 65 hours, and Wednesday would only last for 3 hours. None of these consequences were present in the play. So yeah, one *could* do it, just like I suppose one *could* use a plugged in toaster as a bath toy if they really wanted to, but...
ALSO jesus christ this is why I had such a huuuuge problem with everybody, including those that are supposed to be the most intelligent people in the wizarding world, buying into the rumor that some innocent kid could possibly be the son of somebody who DIED EIGHT YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN YEAH THAT’S PLAUSIBLE SO LET’S SHUN HIM ryfhgriisksnnfnhdjhvudiossododkgm... of course, that happened early enough in the book that I was still naively under the impression that there’d be some continuity in terms of how magic, specifically time travel, works. But nope. EVEN THEN Hermione, at the *very least,* who, in the Deathly Hallows epilogue admonished Ron (gently, of course, I’m sure she knew he was joking) about turning Rose against Scorpius before they even started school, would not have believed such a slanderous rumor about him. But NOPE she’s all like (oh god it hurts) “Did you *_hear_* the rumors about his parentage, I mean sure they’re just *_rumors,_* but just in case it were true, would you really want your child to be *_friends_* with *_HIM?!_*” Just... god fucking damn, this play is awful.
Fact:Cursed child is a fanfiction written by people who've only watched movies.
A friend of mine has only watched the movies and he wrote a better fanfic 😂😂.
It’s a disgrace to fanfiction
More like people who only read the Wikipedia synopsis
Specifically: Back to the Future.
So people like me?
Honestly, calling The Cursed Child fan fiction at this point is an INSULT to fan fiction.
I've read Fan Fiction twenty to one hundred times better than this plot hole pile of rubbish.
The big thing alot of that fanfiction does better is get the lore and characters right.
Dude, praise your words
My thoughts exactly. I've read many fanfictions that are on par with the source material, but this travesty ain't one of them. I'm not saying the writers are bad, but they are sure as hell not well-versed in the world of Harry Potter. They twisted all the original characters into unrecognizable messes. I particularly hated what they did to Harry, they made the humble, lovable hero of the series into a child-abusing monster.
I agree
I completely agree with you!!!
Do you think you could you recommend me some good Harry Potter fan fiction?
*Cursed child exists*
Rest of the world: We have no memory of this
It's legit the same as the avatar movie 😂😂
@@ML0694 😂
There is no Cursed Child in Ba-Sing-Se
The Dark Lord would like to invite you to Lake Laogai
*insert clip of Keke Palmer saying that she does not know who this man is*
There is only one thing I like in this annoying play, the concept of Harry and Draco eventually becoming friends, because Draco never really had friends just a couple of Yes Boys. I did however hate the execution of that concept.
@@amritasengupta5251 She hates him so much she redeemed him.
pretend there's a name In the last minute and he still was a coward in some moments. She really hates Slytherins.
This is why I always loved seeing Draco, Blaise, and Pansy becoming close friends in fanfics.
@DragonBat362 yeah dont exactly take her word as canon though lol
@@according2jessss drarry fanfics with genuine slytherin friendships are peak literature
Love HP series. Never read this book. Never will read this book. However, I really enjoy people hating on it... it's kinda therapeutic for some reason. Great vid
@Mike's Library same
Definitely therapeutic.
me too
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Same here, I wanted to read it when it first came out, and then reviews started coming out and I decidied to not go anywhere near it ^^'
I read it, but honestly I don't remember most of it. It's like my brain blanked out that book like a tramatic experience.
My friend and I were writing a Harry Potter fan fiction on Wattpad. I figured Albus would be a Slytherin. She wanted to have Rose and Scorpius together. She also wanted Voldemort to have had a daughter with Bellatrix who would be the antagonist of our book-I said that was a stupid idea and would never happen. For four years now, I’ve low key wondered if SHE wrote this awful book. That just tells you this reads like a bad fan fiction.
WTF it's somehow awesome and terrifying but it could also give a reason for the existence of this book
Link pls
@@the_sky_is_blue_and_so_am_I i expect this to be bs
The thing is, in this book, Harry HATES his son for being a slytherin... I mean.. Didn’t he say he would love him If he was slytherin, anyway, in the end of the 7th book? Like, the writers completely ignored that..Sorry for my bad English I am not a native speaker :/
I mean he could have changed his mind after 20 years...
gluten free bleach nahh it’s already 10-20 years later when he says that (idk for sure how much but the “chapter” is called 20 years later, or 10 idk)
@@Nisha-tt6ro 19 Years Later
Nisha 19
@@queerlibtardhippie9357 The play icks up immediately after the epilogue of the book. So Harry is like "Al, I'm going to love you no matter where you end up." and then after his son gets sorted "DISAPPOINTMENT."
honestly i like the idea of a slytherin potter but albus has literally no slytherin qualities
Two words father issues
@@_aWiseMan i sort of understand how that makes albus seem more slytherin, but a house is really about the qualities you value and exhibit. also, being close to family is actually something slytherins value. i just don’t really see albus as ambitious or all that cunning? i’m not really sure what house i think he would fit best in though...
Albus is very determined to get out of others shadows, and Albus is also very ambitious, same reason, he is proud, and cunning.
Purely for shock value.
@@misguided_ghost I was making a draco joke
I think the worst part of the book was how out of character everyone in the original series was. I hated Ron, so so so much in this book. They made him look like a bumbling fool, and i hated it. Also harry's development and the fact that he had to
literally had to hide under the benches of the church because a 20 year old was supposedly more powerful than him, despite the fact that he was head of magical law enforcement.
Hell, I hate Ron in the original series too, and even I think he got done dirty.
@Sky Dome honestly the writers probably didn't do either(read the books/watch the movies)
This is a fanfiction. Jack Thorne and John Tiffany just wrote a fanfiction. And everything would be fine, I've read many worse fanfics, but the problem is Rowling put her name on this thing. It seems WB has more control over HP franchise than Rowling and it's sad.
She said it was canon in a tweet because someone asked
Bugs Bunny: Expecto Patroum doc
Rowling cares more about money than the franchise. Ever wondered why she started making movies instead of books?
@@wing7320 Yep. Its also why she comes up with some new thing every six months to try and get it back into tbe mainstream. To keep the cash flowing.
That as literally the thought that went through my head when I saw it on the shelf. "Based on...whatever by J.K. Rowling" I was like "Nope, I get enough of that for free off the internet and have a much better time with that (chapter reviews and author responses and just generally being able to see the author's personality, which you don't get with something like this), I'm gonna write this off and forget about it." And I did until I saw a thumbnail/title that implied that it was terrible and then I forgot about it again until another thumbnail, in an endless loop of blissful ignorance interspersed with brief periods of 'ew' like seeing a dead rat on the sidewalk.
“This was terrible.”
*gets popcorn*
“This is going to be a rant review.”
*pops second bag*
Lol
"The video is 30 minutes long."
*orders a quesadilla*
I still can stomach Harry being a 'bad' dad because some then-abused people actually become abusive themselves later on. No, I draw the line at Ginny letting Harry become a bad dad. She's canonically one of the only few characters who can stand up to Harry when he was angry and the writers just totally ignore that crucial fact.
If he showed any characteristics at all of being an ass, then maybe. But he didn’t. We KNOW Harry…
It's the age old add conflict to plot after a beloved character...aka boruto
@@nichescenes such a good example
@@drquack1217 For boruto, lol yeah Thanks, i think people follow writing advise 101 too much and forget to think...even if its good writing, is it good for my audience. No one wanted to go back to see a kid we saw grow up who was sweet become old looking in his 40s and a dad who doesn't have time for his kid cliche...especially when he can make clones and had near infinite energy to fight for days on end no sleep...yet we have to believe he sacrifices all that just for conflict. Its ok for a movie but it turns people off when stretched for a series. A safe harry potter adventure would have worked well and showcase yeah he's still great.
I don't think Harry was a horrible father. Remember, Albus was a very difficult child that treated him horrible whenever he tries to reach out. He snapped said things he didn't mean, but later apologized.
I hate Albus, and how he thinks Harry had everything easy and everyone loved him at Hogwarts. The exact opposite is true. Hasn't anyone told him? Did he not notice the "Potter Stinks," buttons when he went back in time?
And why? WHY are there so many plotholes? It seems like no one edited this at all. Is this the version of the script they're performing? Did they fix any of the obvious plot holes before they actually performed the play? Because in the book its pretty unbelievably bad. Like surprisingly bad. Like how did such a huge property not see any editing at all seemingly?
I remember reading HP and reading about how Harry got accused for being setting the monster on everyone and how no one listened to him when he said he didnt put his name in the Goblet of Fire. Theres no way u could say he was always loved
He was an outcast in the first book (among Gryffindor students, for loosing a 150 points during one night), in the second book for opportunity, that he is an heir to Slytherin, in the fourth book for alleged cheating to take part in the Tournament, in the fifth book for alleged lying and plotting an in the seventh book for being literally an undesired no. 1. I might missed something, it has been a long time since I read the books.
Albus is my least favorite character lol
In the HP epilogue he is shown to be very close to Harry. Even revealing his greatest fear.
Jack Thorne inserted himself. He did say it was personal for him.
Words can't describe how much I hate this. And worst of all is that tweet from JK Rowling claiming the screenplay is actually canon and we should accept it as so. Not today, ma'am, not today.
nope. its not canon. not now. not ever
If she didn't write it, it's not canon, no matter what she says. I just hope no one tries to write any sort of continuation in the HP world based on this book. It's easier to ignore only one disaster.
"It doesn't make any sense" is the best description. I believe some mistakes are because of the movies - like Ron, nonverbal spells, the third task looks like in the movie, Voldemort's name. Just the argument about the Durmstrang robes shows that fans put more thought into it than the authors.
I still cry because Harry is a terrible father. No. Just no...
Yes, they did such a disservice to Harry in this "story." The Cursed Child did to Harry what The Last Jedi did to Luke. Basically a character assassination. Taking a character who represented something and turning them into the opposite of everything they stood for. And not in a way that is deep. More like in a "that makes no sense, this character would never say or do that" kind of way.
Janhavi Luke Skywalker at least had his entire emotional journey in Return of the Jedi be about his struggle to resist the Dark Side and only overcoming it after failing. Luke was morally complex like that, a man trying to figure himself out. Harry, on the other hand, always struck me as the kind of person who would be overly trusting and too willing to let his children get involved in things, like Sirius did for him with the war, where he looks at his children how he saw himself at their age, as their own full people who can ALSO make their own decisions. He might not know well how to handle his kids realistically given his upbringing, but he strikes me as someone who’d constantly be trying to overcompensate and relate to them and give them more freedom than would be safe. As opposed to sniping at them and not understanding their internal lives, he strikes me as a traumatized parent who would understand them almost as an equal instead of an authority. Meanwhile Ginny would have to rein them in because she grew up in a household where that was commonplace and somewhat effective.
I can see Harry being a terrible father, but not for any of the reasons listed in the book. I can see him overcompensating for his own abusive childhood, by spoiling his children rotten, turning them into Dudleys if Ginny wasn't there to help raise them too.
Someone decided to make Harry Potter a Joestar.
I feel like Merphy would rather this book was called Harry Potter and Because Reasons.
...that sounded funnier in my head
I don't know how she kept it together through explaining the plot I lost it a couple times hearing about it again
@@d04lvallier that's a good question, I wonder that too
What I got was rather Harry Potter and I DON'T BELIEVE YOU 😂
Harry Potter and the Rise of Skywalker
XD
The only, and only theory I'll accept this curse book canon, if this stupid piece of work is written by Reeta Skeeter in the Harry Potter World............that is the most plausible reason I can think of and I dont mind humor this notion. Reeta is a horrible news reporter, who wouldnt say she tried to write books and plays in the side.
Bruh Reeta could write a book about literal crap, and it would be better than this book 1000 fold
I haven't read this... "play" for obvious reasons, but if Harry can bully McGonagall around, you know something's off. That woman went against a ministry official, went against Voldemort, took away 150 points from her own house cause to hell with favouritism, THAT woman just lets one of her former students to bully her into doing his thing? Nah, I'll stay in this corner of actually well-written, with actual passion for the story and not the money written fanfics :)
I've never felt more betrayed by an author than by JKR after reading this *thing*
Honorary mention: a certain sequel that is overdue almost a decade now
How about after reading her Twitter?
I agree with you. Scorpius is the best character. Harry is a horrible father. I’m still mad that teddy wasn’t in it and we barely saw JamesII and Lily II. I also don’t understand how the Malfoys never noticed that Bella was pregnant. Like she lived at the manor I think and Narcissa is her sister she should have noticed that. And why wasn’t Delhi raised by aunt but instead with another random person.
Jolien Van Damme also looking at the timeline, what baffled me was, that when Hermione used the poly juice potion to become Bellatrix in book 7 there must have been some sort of repercussion or something?! I know it’s not mentioned but if something simple as animal hair can mess up such a delicate potion - then polyjuicing into a pregnant person (which is ultimately involving 3 people) must throw some sort of massive curveball?!
Dorcas Winter wow I never thought of that. You have a point if Bella was pregnant or already gave birth Hermione should have noticed.
@@jolienvandamme2909 Why? I don't remember what part of Bellatrix Hermione used, but as long as it's just Bellatrix's genetic material and not her baby's, there shouldn't be any side effect. Now I know this is talking science into magic and I assume magic would still make it so the copied person would also look pregnant, but there shouldn't be any side effects like with the cat hair.
Also, during the Battle of Malfoy manor, a couple of months before the Battle of Hogwarts, how was she able to move around so well if she was pregnant?
It was a funny little fan fiction, where not everything has to add up. Just a thought experiment. At least I read it as such. Until she said it's canon. Now it's just a low-effort spin-off.
The worst part for me was always Cedric. He was a true Hufflepuff (not just an “I’ll take all the rest”, he possessed qualities which would have made him a suitable candidate for other houses but his defining characteristics made him Hufflepuff) so there is literally no way he would be a traitor.
This work is trash. I literally got mad at J.K. Rowling for allowing its existence.
I read 75 pages of this book and put it down, I couldn't.. I felt like if I read further it would tarnish my memory of the books I love.
@@sananayeemunnisa9899, same. Albus is so unlikeable and I’m tired of Voldemort and all that rubbish.
Voldie was asexual. He clearly didn’t think of sex (unless he wanted to manipulate people which is never stated but I bet he did these things to gain what he wanted). He viewed himself the most powerful wizard and thought he was invincible. He never wanted or needed a child to be his heir.
It just feels like someone read a Voldemort x Bellatrix fanfiction and decided this is canon now and their oc child is the new villain now.
and even if voldie wanted sex, he sure as heck wouldn't want or need a child.
As an asexual, I can say that it's very possible for asexuals to have sex. And I think voldermort could have had a child to protect his legacy.
Also on a darker note, Bellatrix could have very much done what Voldermorts mother did.
@@dylantd9189 Legacies are for people that die, Voldies whole stick is running away from death and is arrogant enough to think that he can succeed.
Also I don't think there is any scenario where Bella could drug Voldie and have her way with him, even if it did she wouldn't survive the aftermath.
Is Voldie even human enough to have all his bits?
Honestly it would make more sense if Delphine was lied to.
Who would want to sleep with that?
I'd always thought Voldemort had sacrificed his ability to have children, either by performing some kind of ritual to remove part or all of his genitals, or simply make himself either sterile or merely impotent.
The thing is... the Cursed Child didn't NEED to have Harry Potter as the main character. Why was he the main character? beats me :/
it didn't need Albus either. He could've been a side character, but I'd have adored it if Scorpius was the main character, working through being the next Malfoy and dealing with prejudice against him and his family and proving that he is more than his last name and that blond hair.
I thought it was about harry potter's son
Harry Potter had to be in it to be called "Harry Potter and the...". Without that the marketing would be adversely affected and JKR and her cronies might not make as much money out of this second-rate fanfic
so that it sells ofc. might have been a rhetorical question, but thats the answer. we need the book being called "Harry Potter and ..." and him being involved in the story that much, as well as the description "the eighth story" so it sells more. as if it would make a shit ton of money anyway for taking place in the wizarding world.
I honestly have no idea how JKR gave permission to this load of crap.
How can you read a story that completely butchers your characters and plot, makes absolutely no sense and contradicts the books YOU have written and think "yeah let's do this".
I'm just so puzzled. Literally every single character does something or says something that is completely nonsensical to their personality.
The biggest one IMO is Harry saying that he wished Albus wasn't his son. I reject this intensely.
My respect for JKR dropped after reading this and I just want to know why she did it.
Quite likely answer is a contract with the publisher.
She wanted to make money
A lot of people/market wanted a piece of the Harry Potter fan PIE. They want to make the most money in every which way. That’s how “franchises” works. So, more HP World Parks, Theatrical Plays, Movies. And since JK Rowling doesn’t actually want to write another HP book anymore, publishers are telling her that “hey, let’s published all the scripts of these plays and movie”, super fans will still buy this! It’s all about “milking the cow”. Just look at how popular new broadway plays and movies today gets a publishing deals.
Harry saying that to his son broke my heart. It was very insulting to the character.
I think it's maybe because Rowling apparently has said she hasn't re-read the books. So maybe she's forgotten her own characters and plot points. I honestly feel like the fandom which has re-read the books countless times, probably knows the books and characters better than she does.
@@charliebirnie8052 100% correct.
I don’t think I’ll be reading this book it would ruin the series for me. I’m shocked by how weird this story is. Also the worst part in my opinion is how Harry says I wish I didn’t have a son. Harry would never say that.
As soon as I heard Voldemort had a kid, I shook my head, laughed, and never bothered. That’s nonsensical bottom tier fan fiction stuff.
Merphy: It’s fine, everything’s fine
Narrator: Everything was not fine
Lmao I automatically read it in the Jane the virgin's narrator's voice
This book was so terrible. I completely agree about the character regression. The plot doesn’t make sense either. It’s probably one of the worst things I’ve ever read.
I can tolerate Delphini's existence by thinking of her as Voldemort's reward to Bellatrix, a way of keeping Bella absolutely loyal to him, the father of her child. Bellatrix even says in HBP that if she had a son she would gladly give him to Voldemort when talking to Narcissa. Maybe Voldemort gave her his child as some sort of twisted absolute loyalty card. He may have also needed more of his own blood relatives to use in a ritual like the "bone of the father" stuff.
As someone who refuses to believe that Voldemort was ever sexually attracted to anyone, I accept and appreciate this headcanon.
The timeline of it is the most troublesome thing, though. Because isn't she passing herself off as a student? She'd be in her early twenties by the time she meets Albus for his fourth year.
@@kateworkman921 Yeah, and even if she somehow exists, it still doesn't answer the major question of what she's been doing for her entire life. Obviously, someone would have to had to raised her, which begs the question of what kind of childhood she had. If no one knew about her existence, the most likely situation is that a death eater raised her. That begs the question of who. They're arguably one of the most important people in the story, but thy aren't mentioned at all.
Even her magical abilities aren't really explained. She never went to Hogwarts, so that begs the question of how she got to be so powerful. Even if she had 100% of Voldemort's natural abilities, he got to be so powerful from the wealth of knowledge at Hogwarts.
I disagree with you! Voldemort already knew that Bellatrix was 100% loyal to him, he did not have to give her a child to make her loyal. Also.... I can´t picture Voldemort and Bellatrix having sex. Oh my God! Besides, Delphi is really really powerful, and Voldemort knows that if he ever had son or a daughter, this child would be very powerful and maybe capeable of destroying him, so I´m pretty sure he would avoid any chance, even the slightest one, of having a child.
@@cayodomingues
I disagree with one point of yours. I don't think Voldemort actually trusted that ANY of his followers were 100% loyal to him.
Everything else, though, spot on.
Cursed Child is like the writers only watched half the movies and read My Immortal for the other half
They actually didn’t read the books, they watched a couple of the movies and saw descriptions of stuff boom and wrote this, they didn’t even watch all the movies like literally search it up
This is why authors need to re-read their own series when they’re trying to create (or endorse) new stuff after a long break. They forget and their rabid fans become more knowledgeable than they are.
I'm currently reading HP to my younger sister and I'm doing everything that I can to keep her from ever finding out that this book exists.
You can't keep anyone from finding this stuff out.
Just tell her to ignore it.
Merphy: "I won't make a review and a it doesn't make sense video"
Me: Ok, most of the book doesn't make sense so a review would be a it doesn't make sense video
Lol and it basically was!
idk why but i was stuck reading your comment for like half a minute
Your comment doesn't make any sense
*Hol up-*
Finally, someone mentioning that Bellatrix should be pregnant at the malfoy manor character
The main lesson "Cursed child" gives us: "Kids, don't try to change the world".
ALSO...kids don't read a book that you know is freaking RUBBISH
Am I the only one who loves it when she says “I don’t believe you”
I think the reason they had Hermione become essentially like Snape in this parallel timeline, was to imply if anyone went through what Snape had gone through with Lily ( meaning, finding someone else) everyone would have turned up like Snape, so it somehow justifies Snapes's bullying ??
I think that's what they were trying to show.. except it's dumb and doesn't make any sense, because Snape was never really a kind person to begin with, contrary to Hermione..
Like seriously, she would be the last person to bully students???
exactly, she was bullied as a student so why would she bully only because she didn’t end up with ron????
she’s strong, independent and most importantly, a good person.
her becoming snape makes absolutely no sense whatsoever
And all the other boys interested in Hermione just vanished? I don't buy it.
yeah and Hermione was destined for success without Ron from the jump. Ron in no way shaped her into the person she was... she was always such an incredible and kind person. This version of her makes no sense
The Cursed Child is literally the worst thing I've ever read in my life. Ever single decision they make is either a plot hole or convenience or contradicts the original series
except the word 'the' :)
When I read it, I put the book down after Harry told his son that he wished he wasn’t his son. Like you said in the video, Harry was in an ABUSIVE HOUSEHOLD. I refuse to believe he was a horrible father. If anything, he’d be one of the most caring fathers because of everything he’s been through. And that Ron thing is a good point too. I loved Ron in the series and they really just dumbed him down.
Cursed Child isn’t canon to me. 👍🏼 You said everything about the book that bugged me perfectly
I didn't even get to reading it! I heard that plot point and decided that I wouldn't ever pick it up
I quit reading the book at the same place. There is no way that Harry Potter would have said that to his child after his childhood.
I read a big chunk of the cursed child about two years ago, didn't finish it though and I seem to completely have forgotten the entire plot. That's how my mind works, tbh, it just tends to forget details of really bad experiences. Like Harry telling his son he wishes he was never born? Are you kidding me, JKR?
harry was such a good dad in the epilogue
i hated harry in the cursed child
@@ellag3265 i agree. i liked the message of the epilogue and the cursed child did it’s best to tear that down. the reason i disliked cursed child harry so much was because of how different he was to book harry.
Harry was a bad father in the book but I love it lol.That's probably because of that I m not a huge fan of him.
@@unchartedsky1142 harry’s not my favourite character either. i just didn’t like the way they changed the characterisation so starkly
@@misguided_ghost yeah actually u r right
the time travel logic in prisoner of azkaban makes perfect sense. and there are really no situations throughout the rest of the series where it can be used (remember the time turner CANNOT be used to change the past you cannot create a new timeline it is a fixed timeline time travel system.) this completely betrays that
This series was so close to being perfect.
And then we got the cursed child.
That's why its curse
Cursed what? I never even heard of it. I think you are just delirious and hallucinating. 8th book? Oh no, dear, you have mistaken the number of books with the number of movies, you see.
Also... _OBLIVIATE_ !
Abskorditis 123 the series is still perfect for me, cursed child doesn’t exist in my eyes
After hearing very few details, like Cedric becoming a death eater (NO HUFFLEPUFF HAS EVER GONE DARK) and the horrible plotline of the Voldy/Bella lovechild convinced me to stay far away from this, and I refuse to consider this Canon, no matter what Rowling says
I watched the first half of a review, and when he said "If you don't like it, click off now, because it'll only get worse" I took his word for it. Cursed Child and "The Last Airbender" (the live action movie) are analogous to one another in my head.
Not true about the Hufflepuffs. All houses have produced dark wizards and witches. It's just that Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw do a good job of hiding it.
@@traptinseid8577 maybe but I definitely don’t think Cedric would go dark, it’s very out of character for him
I’m glad this “book” exists. I remember camping out at a bookstore the night of its release. The entire series had already come out by the time I started reading it, so I never had the chance to actively engage in the community before then. It even inspired a yearly festival in a nearby town, so I’m grateful for that. But my little 13 year old self tried so hard to justify that the book wasn’t trash. I still ended up resenting it, and that was the first time I felt heartbreak.
Same here
Yes!! I went to a midnight book launch, it was so fun and I read it the entire journey home. I couldn't help but feel dissatisfied and so heartbroken. This wasnt the characters I grew up with and the story didnt even fit. Not to mention the absolute queerbaiting with Albus and Scorpius, as a gay kid that really hurt.
I think JK Rowling was under the Imperius curse when she approved this......
Me tii
In the muggle world its called "a big fat paycheck"
Not even one minute in:
Merphy: Scorpius is an awesome character, but that's it. I'm gonna rant about what I don't like now.
Me: at least she agrees that Scorpius is an angel ❤
Meh, Scorpius is fine, but the big thing is they made the characters the opposites, Albus and Scorpius shouldn’t be made friends with each other from the get-go. I mean, Albus should be teased for being in Slytherin, it seems like his parents gave him James’s old wand.
I saw the play recently, and the spectical makes up 95% of the appeal.
But the performance of Scorpius was very annoying and made it hard to appreciate him.
Everyone involved with the creation of this abomination should have to look at the thumbnail of this video and THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.
Because that look on Merphy's face will shame them better than anything else I've seen on the internet.
What the curse child feels like when listening to this:
The writers of the play never *actually* read the books. If they did, it was once, and they skipped HUGE swaths of information which isn't "convenient" for their explanations, half watched the movies, and decided "Oh! I don't like A, B, and C... LET'S FIX ALL THESE WITH TIME TRAVEL AND TIME TURNERS ARE MY SOLUTION! And I need to give it plot, so let's make this much more complicated than it really should be! And I have this OC that I want to just shove in there, but she has to be stupid powerful but evil!"
Rowling's output after Deathly Hallows took a sharp nosedive. My head canon is that she rode off into the sunset on a hippogriff, never wrote (or tweeted) again, and remained everyone's unproblematic favorite.
God, I wish
If only...
I like the first fantastic beasts movie (it's not a masterpiece or anything, but I enjoyed it) but yeah everything else she made is just...nope.
How the hell would Harry even turn into Voldemort? Voldy had no hair for anyone to put in polyjuice potion! It's just impossible!
I guess the same way palpatine returned…somehow
Voldemort doesn’t have hair…or DOES he? 😳
They should write a sequel to The Cursed Child. It should begin with Albus Potter waking up from a nap aboard the Hogwarts Express at the start of his first year and telling his brother James that he just had the strangest dream.
That would be the only way to revive this.
That would be the only way to revive this.
No, in the the Slytherin dorms, then he would be literally sweating on the way to the Hospital, and the continuations keep coming, and everyone avoids him, because the think he’s cursed.
I really wish they would relegate the events of the sequel trilogy to an alternate universe
Said trilogy only makes sense if it takes place in an alternate universe in which Anakin was never redeemed, Luke killed him in anger on Death Star 2 and Palpatine never died
From my perspective the closed loop is one of few time travel variants that I tolerate as it solves time paradox completly. Not realy related to review but I still had to write it.
@@MuhammedChand Yeah, people who already used it wouldn't do so again as they are avare now that they are not changing anything. People who didn't use it before would have similar experience to Harry and Hermione.
Harry Potter and the Trash Fan-Fic.
I would honestly buy 'my immortal,' being cannon instead of this nonsense.
At least my immortal's author may have been trolling, plus their author notes predicted Harry being a horcrux which I find hilarious that in that insanity a major plot point of book 7 was actually guessed correctly
ebony would crush delphi
I would buy 'my immortal' by evanescence being cannon in the wizarding world rather than cursed child
The Harry Potter books are literally about "the Power of Friendship and Love" yet he decides to separate his son from his only friend... yeah sounds about right.
Like Luke Skywalker leaving his friends and family to suffer at the hands of an apprentice that he corrupted while also never taking responsibility for his actions
The cursed child exists
The HP Fans: self obliviate
I LOVE THIS
I love the book, lol
@@unchartedsky1142 I- You're joking, right?
@@BeetlejuiceBeetlejuiceJr No dude, idk but I really loved the book.I know it is a bit weird.
Murphy, I agree with almost everything you said. A couple more stray thoughts:
- I HATE that the Potters are anti-sugar. Everyone in the wizarding world is immensely pro-sugar. Chocolate is a friction' medicine!
- I don't like the Hermione becomes Minister of Magic- or at least that she's just a very basic minister of magic. I feel like she would only be minister if there was a significant change in politics, like the wizarding world gave equal rights to everyone of muggle descent or there was a bill passed on the rights of house elves.
-They just casually lump all werewolves, giants and beasts as "bad". Harry even says "the werewolves have gone completely underground". That is TERRIBLE. You would think that a group of kids who all called Remus Lupin their favorite teacher and loved Hagrid would be leaders an a world where the treatment of magical creatures were different
Only thing I disagree on: I LOVE closed-loop time travel. It is the only time-travel that makes sense to me. I could also talk about time travel for, maybe two hours. It's fascinating.
I could also talk about time travel for a while
I just have problems with Harry threatening Mcgonagall that he would come downhard on the school with his ministry power if she did'nt keep albus and scorpius apart.
Excuseme he frickin' cruciated Amycus Carrow for disrespecting Mcgonagall..for the first time he "meant" to cause pain and "enjoy it".
Of course, Mcgonagall would take the threat lying down..she would frickin' roast him.😡
Edit- He would come down hard on hogwarts..like seriously..he is being a worse version of Fudge.
I just had to say this.
Or Lucius
This sounds like a fanfiction written by a child who never looked at the books or watched a movie but just listened to another child haphazardly tell the story.
I will most definitely NEVER read this book.
I've noticed a weird and upsetting trend. Whenever someone writes the sequel to a franchise that was perfectly ended, they always take the main character and make them into bad parents, just so that the new character has soemthing to complain about even tho their life is actually pretty okay compared to their parent.
Boruto anyone?
@@mikefrost5575 yeah, Naruto,Harry Potter,aang, the list goes on, like why even establish that your character is good and would be great dad's or mom to their kid and just wreck that to creat family drama, seriously we already don't have enough good parent child representation especially father and son , so why make more , it like their kids story won't be interesting if they don't have the my parents neglected me backstory
@@salamatusuleiman2393 yeah I totally agree, even if you want family conflict, there is so many better ways.
naruto, harry potter, aang, luke skywalker to his nephew.. like it’s not even characteristically accurate to their character cmon now
It's possible to write conflict without having a bad parent-child relationship and I wish writers would realise that more TT
I forgot most of the events of Cursed Child, probably because I blocked it subconsciously. I only remember Harry being trash and Bellatrix and Voldemort’s love child. And I wish I’d known about the love child before I bought it, because I’d never have wasted my time.
Bellatrix might have used the spell Infante Concelious to carry her child within her womb but without looking pregnant. There's also the spell Fetius Surrogatus that allows another woman to carry her child instead. Alternatively, after leaving Malfoy manor she conceived the child and used the spell Labourious Instantanium to instantly foster the child within minutes as if it had been nine months. Voldemort could have split the baby across seven different women (he's kind of obsessed with doing that) so she would only look like she was 1/7 of 9 months pregnant.Or she obviously used a time turner and there was a second pregnant Bellatrix that was in hiding the whole time.
If you are serious, these are completely made up spells. The whole concept of Delphi is garbage
@@s.p.8508 its obviously a troll, a hilarious one at that
redfalconfox dude, you thought about it far more than I did....you are a wonderful troll, well done
Scorpius did not deserve to be put in such a book 😤
No one talks about the fact that Ron and Padma were married in the second timeline. They only knew each other because of the Yule Ball, so why would they end up getting married if Ron went with Hermione instead in that timeline???
Yeah. Itd make more sense if it were Lavender Brown. I think the writers only researched the 4th movie because this shit sucks
They knew each other outside of the Yule Ball, they just weren’t friends.
@@RoaringMind I mean, they knew OF each other.... but Padma was a ravenclaw. When would they have had the opportunity to get to know each other on a deeper level?
Forest Grump yes, it’s one of those occurrences that could be explained in myriad ways. Don’t get me wrong, the Cursed Child’s timelines are trash. But this is one determination that I can overlook.
@@RoaringMind but they only went together because Parvati got Padma to go with Ron?? Like he didn't even ask her his mate was going with her sister so he went with her
wait... i just realized this... so voldy kills snape because he wants the elder wand but snape is killed by nagini so...
NAGINI WOULD BE THE TRUE MASTER OF THE ELDER WAND
Wait, You just made me realise one Thing, Voldy Killed Snape Because he wanted the Elder Wand, and he Killed Snape before Nagini was Destroyed, and in the Timeline where Voldy wins he only wins because Nagini wasnt Destroyed, So, why the Heck Voldy didnt Killed Snape on the Voldy Win Timeline???
@@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214 Dude that was a good point.If u find the answer, could u inform me lol
The real cursed child is the one sitting in the audience.
"Because reasons"
"I DON'T BELIEVE YOU???!"
"Okay, let's talking about this-"
"YOU mean TO TELL ME THAT-"
I feel you.
I'm kind sad this was terrible. Not just as an HP fan, but the guy who wrote it absolutely nailed adapting His Dark Materials for the BBC, so it makes me wonder why he pulled that off and not this
THAT'S THE SAME GUY!???? omg I love HDM series, how can that be the same people I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!
He's really well regarded for a lot of his other work, and he had done adaptations before. I really don't know what happened. I guess sometimes you just miss, but this seems like way too big a project to not have people in place to be like "no, don't do that, you're ruining it."
I have to wonder how much of it was Rowling's fault. Did she just sign off on it, or did she contribute some of the terrible ideas? The Fantastic Beasts films (that she wrote) aren't exactly testaments to her ability to maintain the quality of her initial series.
@@emiloberg2110 look it up online, as Seb said other than CC he actually has a really great record as a writer
Perhaps he is better at adapting than oc work
I hate this book with everything in my soul. I would have been content to simply say this was a play based on Harry Potter fan fiction that was written for funsies...BUT THEN JK MADE IT CANON.
I will never accept it. The HP series consists of book 1-7. Periodt.
So clearly this book should’ve been called “Harry Potter and Because Reasons” 😂😂 LOVED this!!!
You know its bad when I've erased the entire thing from existence in my mind and completely forgot it existed until I saw this review.
The only thing I actually loved in this book is near the end, when Hagrid takes baby Harry and says something like "you're gonna need a friend so I'm gonna be yours." THIS, in a story in which every single character were so screwed up, actually sounded like Hagrid. It melted my heart ❤
Also Scorpius was awesome. The rest is trash.
I also Loved the Moment when Albus Said to Cedric that his Father Loves Him and When Snape said he is Proud of one of Harry Children having his Name
I can already tell by your face in the thumbnail you're ready to tear this book apart... And I couldn't be more excited **grabs popcorn** 🍿🤓
Merphy Napier coming out with the straight consective fire content through these trying times
"I don't believe you" was basically only thing I thought while reading it. I never had a suspension of disbelief, nothing felt organic and so many glaring inconsistencies.
It will never be canon to me - it's a hazy, horrible fever dream that I woke up from in a cold sweat and am now trying my hardest to forget.
the cursed child is a bad fanfiction
none of the old characters are the same
the only likeable character is scorpius and none of the plots make any sense
BAD FANFICTION IS BETTER THAN THIS RUBBISH
@@afsanaashika4878 honestly you’re right. i’ve read better fanfiction than the cursed child, because a lot of fanfiction is actually good. but i’ve also read better _bad_ fanfiction that the cursed child. and fanfiction can get pretty bad sometimes so that’s saying something
Sitting through all the ads for you suffering through this book. You’re the best!
No YOU'RE the best!
Grr, and in defense of my Pottermore House, there is not a SINGLE Hufflepuff who ever turned Death Eater, thank you very much.
@@ML0694 Snape was an asshole.
And Slytherins are awsome.
In the world of Potter as we know it, there are no recorded instances of a person who was sorted into Hufflepuff ever becoming a Death Eater, or any other kind of Dark Wizard for that matter.(it is copied and authorized)
@@GayPinaplle28 Snape was bullied and abused almost all his life and also lost the only person who cared about him, Lily. That's what made him choose a darker path. But he's still a good person. All Slytherins are awesome including Snape. I respect your opinion though.
I feel like JK should have made Bellatrix a hufflepuff. She’s very loyal like a hufflepuff and it would show that just because your in a different house doesn’t mean you have only one set path
@@dracomalfoy3776 So what? Did you read books? He wasn't bullied becouse no reason. Even if he was bullied in school , he bullied Harry, Neville and Hermione when he was a teacher. A grown person. Read books again. Just becouse he was obbsesed with Lilly (that was the only reason he was at good side) , it doesn't make him good person. He was brave, but he was terriblle, Terriblle person.
Honestly, as someone who wrote plays and worked with playwright's while at University studying creative writing, they were all appalled at the writing in this script, even the play's execution of dialogue and action is awful
That was my feeling as well, reading it. I also found the stage directions puzzling -- but I figured that the writers must know up to pull off the effects they were putting in. (And reading comments from people who saw the production, the effects were apparently great.).
But the story? Too much stuff. Too much stuff that didn't need to be there. My brain is starting to hurt thinking about all the stuff that didn't need to be there. Isn't there some scene that's all about Hermione trying to get Harry to eat a toffee?
Points to Cedric: "Look how they massacred my boy"
Also question to those who have read both what was worse, Cursed Child or My Immortal?
I have not read it but from what I heard cursed child is way worse than my immortal and unlike my immortal it isn't so funny it's bad. It's just bad
Voldy and Palps, chilling at HISHE’s villain pub:
So you had a kid too?
Yes, and a granddaughter
Vader: *gaaaasp* you have a kid tooooo?!?!?!
YYYESSSSS
this book is basically a wattpad fanfic, even wattpad fics are written better
ran_LOONA *cough* my immortal 😂😂😂😂
Maybe it’s okay if one just sees it as a parody of HP, like
„Snape, Snape, Severus Snape...Dumbledoor!“
Merphy you’re AMAZING for coming out with this and the Snape analysis back to back!!! When you did the poll I thought for sure I’d have to wait between them, but no because you’re awesome! I loved this rant/review so much because I also hated this book and have a hard time articulating why. This was great 👍🏻
"I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!" - the message of this video 😂
Cursed Child: *exists*
Everyone who reads it: AVADA KEDAVRAA
It's just like jk Rowling thought that how the heck did Harry potter series had a satisfying ending
JK Rowling *(witch laugh)*
*Let's publish the cursed child*
it had a satisfying ending? i am not going to be popular with these opinions.. but i think after book4 the series deteriorated with the culmination in the last book.. the ending just sucked and pls spare me the crappylogue. half the pairings dont make sense in any way shape or form. i could name way more things that bug me over the series as a whole but thats just my 2cents
@@Brainreaver79 I dont even mind the epilogue but the actual ending of deathly hallows was straight trash. We didn't even get a proper fucking duel.
Brainreaver79 your so right
Spence ..and that's cool. We got it all explained.
@@fenixchief7 A duel between Harry and Voldemort would be straight up trash, just like in the movie.
Scorpius was the one thing that made me finish reading this, the rest of it was just terrible
I will never forgive Rowling for what she did to Ron in this book
Hannah McDermott Ironically, Ron’s worst fear is what happen to him (and Rupert Grint) in real life, being overshadowed by his surrounding characters (and actors)
Ron would NEVER, EVER give a CHILD a love potion!! To say that he had a rough experience with one is a euphemism so not in a million years he would do such a stupid irresponsible thing.
Honestly every character seems to be have written by someone who has never read a HP book or even seen a movie. Embarrassing.
That's what I hated most.
Well she never quite liked Ron for that matter, it is quite clear from the fact he has basically not part in the plot from book 3 to book 6 (I mean, he interact with the other characters but is completely passive in moving the plot forward, and serves mostly as a contrastnig figure to the greatness of Hermione and Harry).
Clément Denis Then why wrote Ron as “Harry’s best friend” if she has no idea how to handle him. It is possible to write a best friend side character that is not as skillful as the hero interesting. Look at Samwell Tarly. He’s not as handsome or cool or good at fighting or being a “chosen one” like his best friend Jon Snow. He even called himself as a coward but he’s the one who discover the mean to kill white walker so GRRM utilized him as a character who gather essential information to help Jon wins in the long night, also become an unintentionally crucial player to Daenerys storyline.
I love that every rant about the cursed child begins with :
„I get that it's a screenplay, *but* ...“
J.K Rowling ? More like:
Just Kidding Rowling.
Rowling On Floor Laughing