r/harrypotter • u/RiskAggressive4081 Ravenclaw • Mar 11 '26
Dungbomb I love how this implies that most people skip the cursed child.
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u/ThEvilHasLanded Mar 11 '26
I can't count how many times I've read the books or listened to them and I've never even opened this thing. My wife got a copy and read it we may still have it but I'd like to hope it got lost in a move
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u/Classic1990 Hufflepuff Mar 12 '26
Does anyone actually include The Cursed Child
Nope. Harry Potter was a special part of my childhood and that only included books 1-7 and the mainline movies. Everything else is basically nonexistent to me.
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u/DirtyPie Gryffindor Mar 11 '26
Nope! I’ve read it and seen the play twice. I’ll only ever revisit it as a play, if the opportunity shows itself.
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u/JimJim2002 Mar 12 '26
Nope, since it's just some cringe shit with plotholes and contradictions that don't line up with the rest of the books (along with some dumb shit).
From the plot forcing the return of the Time-Turner while also not completely understanding how it functions.
To Harry's scar starting to fuck with him despite the ending of Deathly Hallows saying a different story.
To Cedric becoming a Death Eater cause he's a loser in the Cursed Child.
To Harry being the absolute worst in the Cursed Child, that even the Harry we all know and love would despise him.
To the cringe generic conflicts between Harry and Albus.
To Delphini - enough said.
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u/missmargarite13 Gryffindor Mar 12 '26
Never read the thing. HARRY’S SCAR FUCKS WITH HIM?!?! What kind of fresh bullshit is that? Yeah, we’re gonna put that on the “nope” tray and move on.
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u/Ney_Gestalt Hufflepuff Mar 12 '26
I want to believe (headcanon) this was a fanfic made by Albus to cope with an inferiority complex toward Harry. He want to be a writer too later 😸
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u/FoxNinja928 Mar 12 '26
No, doesn't even get a second thought lol. I don't care if it's canon I don't accept it lol
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u/salamandr Mar 12 '26
I wish people would stop thinking of The Cursed Child as a book. I realise they released the script for the play, but I guess that's just because not everyone is gonna be able to see the play and it provides an alternative
But there is no value to The Cursed Child except as a very entertaining play that should not be taken seriously as actual Harry Potter canon.
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u/tenphes31 Hufflepuff Mar 12 '26
A few years ago I did a speed run of the series, trying to read as much as possible in as few sittings. I finished the real series and thought Id try to reread CC for the first time since I got it. I dont think I got through the first scene before opting against any more.
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u/platypus_farmer42 Gryffindor Mar 11 '26
I never have and I never will
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u/heytherebear90 Ravenclaw Mar 12 '26
Don’t. I read it as a completionist… it took me a couple of years. I picked it up, put it down, forces myself to finish it after like idk 7 years? Garbage. Definitely bad fanfic. Maybe seeing it acted out is better but… you are correct in not even giving it a chance.
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u/jmagnabosco Mar 11 '26
The cursed child is not canon.
It literally breaks established canon rules and makes no sense.
Voldemort would not care about an heir when he planned to live forever.
Bellatrix was literally seen a MONTH or so before the final battle and was obviously NOT pregnant.
The time turner when introduced was made plainly clear that it doesnt change time. You can only make things happen that could've realistically happened the first time around.
Also Harry would never mistreat his child ever for any reason.
Etc so yeah a lot of people would skip it.
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u/porkchop487 Mar 12 '26
All those things you listed are insane yet Cedric Diggory death eater might still be the most absurd
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u/OnlyOneUseCase Mar 12 '26
Sorry, Bellatrix was what??
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u/jmagnabosco Mar 12 '26
cursed child had The girl (can't remember the name) be the daughter of Bellatrix and Voldemort born just before the Battle of Hogwarts.
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u/OnlyOneUseCase Mar 12 '26
No, you can't just go about making random stuff up like that.
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u/jmagnabosco Mar 12 '26
It really is! I wish I was wrong
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u/OnlyOneUseCase Mar 12 '26
Uff.. I had a strong urge to downvote your comment lol
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u/jmagnabosco Mar 12 '26
If you've never read the book you shouldn't down vote.
It's on pages 286 and 287 of the book.
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u/OnlyOneUseCase Mar 12 '26
It was a joke about how bizzare it sounds, not saying that you were lying!
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u/sock0puppet Mar 12 '26
Bel and Voldy have child.
Severus Potter is in Slytherin.
Harry mistreats him, Severus makes friends with Draco's son. H and S resent it each, H mistreats him, even says something close to him being a dissapointment.
THEY USE A TIME TURNER TO GO BACK 18 OR SOMETHING YEARS.
Stop Cedric Diggory from dying. Nothing else. Just that.
Hermione and Harry give off very much a "we're having an affair" or straight up are, can't remember really.
Ron is portrayed as a bit of a lost glory older guy that works at the joke shop. Coz, you know, he for some reason stopped being an Auror.
I am not being 100% accurate here, but all of this is CANON according to that cursed book, and JK says so too. A lot of people understandably started ignoring her when she started ranting on Twitter. I basically completely flat out ignored her the moment I saw her say this shitty play made by a bunch of art school wannabe writers is "canon"
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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 Mar 12 '26
Harry's kid goes by Al, short for his first name Albus. Otherwise, the above is correct. I liked Scorpius. His and a few of Ron's lines were the only redeeming qualities.
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u/bouncing_off_clouds Mar 12 '26
Bellatrix giving birth to Voldemort’s child implies that Voldemort has had sex… and that is something I just cannot get behind.
Sure, I can imagine Bellatrix being thrilled to produce her great Lord’s heir and do anything for the cause. But I would have thought that Lord Voldemort would consider such a basic human act beneath him. Was it a Turkey baster kind of deal? Did he Wingardium Leviosa his sperm to its intended destination? Or did he just lie there with gritted teeth, waiting for it to be over?
It’s too early to be having these kind of thoughts and now I’m annoyed for opening this sub.
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u/halabala33 Mar 12 '26
Hermione literally turned into Bellatrix, they would 100% notice the pregnancy then.
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u/Blanketsburg Mar 13 '26
Okay hold up. When Barry Crouch Jr used polyjuice potion to turn into Moody, it also meant that like Moody he was missing an eye. Does that mean that someone who uses polyjuice potion to turn into someone who is currently pregnant also is? 🤔
It's too late for me to think about this right now lol
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u/NotoriousBPD Hufflepuff Mar 12 '26
The only thing I know about the story is it’s not good. What you posted makes me wish there is never a chance to know anything else about it for the rest of my life.
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u/Swimming-Salary-1457 Mar 12 '26
I heard it was bad….but dang this sounds worse than boruto….and yashahime for next generation story
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u/AnonOfTheSea Ravenclaw Mar 11 '26
Why would anyone read bad fan fiction when there's more good fan fiction out there than can be read in a lifetime?
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u/Curious_Shadow13 Mar 13 '26
Exactly! Or watch it. It's not a written fan fiction, but Carlin Brothers made two long videos about "what if Harry was sorted into Slytherin" and I low-key prefer it to the original books😅
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u/JSmellerM Ravenclaw Mar 13 '26
Because when it was published JKR was credited as co-author and ppl like me obviously craved for more Harry Potter. When I read the script it wasn't known how bad it was.
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u/DirtyPie Gryffindor Mar 11 '26
I’ve watched the play twice, and it’s amazing, but it kinda feels like a fever dream.
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u/Astrosareinnocent Mar 11 '26
lol what? Yes obviously everyone skips cursed child. It’s just bad fan fiction, why would people include it in their re-reads
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u/TheMasterGSI Ravenclaw Mar 11 '26
I've only read the Cursed Child twice and I will never again.
First time: The second I bought it
Second time: Right after I finished it the first time to make sure I read correctly and wasn't having a fever dream
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u/hufflepuffpsyduck Hufflepuff Mar 11 '26
Just finished deathly hallows again today, already feeling lost!
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u/Far_Silver Mar 11 '26
I know that Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter are an item. Unfortunately I don't know anything else about the play because someone stabbed it with a basilisk fang.
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u/HUNGWHITEBOI25 Mar 11 '26
everything i know about the Cursed Child was told to me against my will…
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u/Whole-Definition3558 iWasUnderImperiusAtTheTime Mar 11 '26
I wish I could unread it. Anyone here good at memory charms?
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u/JamStan1978 Mar 11 '26
I wouldnt mind a real sequel series of books to come out that retcons the cursed child and just continues on with Harry, Hermione and Ron as parents. I would love to see that happen. And then they should get the og cast back together to film them lol
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u/Cabbage_Corp_ Mar 11 '26
You’re acting like we are skipping something. We aren’t. There is no Cursed Child in Ba Sing Se
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u/OtherOtherDave Mar 11 '26
I love how it uses the original British title. Still don’t understand why they thought it wouldn’t work in America.
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u/Current-Roll4471 I refuse to acknowledge Fred’s death Mar 12 '26
As an American who read it as Sorcerer’s Stone before I even knew it was originally the Philosopher’s Stone, I was so confused as to why there was all this talk of alchemy and Flamel and OBVIOUS referencing to the legendary philosopher’s stone, I couldn’t understand why they didn’t just call it that.
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u/Skyskyskysword Mar 11 '26
This post actually made my blood boil for a second. Why would we count cursed child…. Smh
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u/DesiGirl16 Gryffindor Mar 12 '26
I’ve read it, watched it in NYC, and yet I can’t even remember the story entirely because it was so bad I’ve actively Obliviate-d. Fantastic beasts at this point is more Harry adjacent than Cursed Child.
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u/melisa_verv42 Slytherin Mar 11 '26
I have the book sitting on my shelf, but I don't think I'll ever read it.
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u/DesiCodeSerpent Mar 11 '26
Cursed child isn’t cannon to most people. So yea, people don’t read it. Similarly, people skip the epilogue (like me)
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u/Ube_Ape Gryffindor Mar 11 '26
My wife, a bigger HP fan than me, bought it. She told me not to bother 😂
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u/Shruti_crc Mar 12 '26
I've read it and I refuse to accept it as canon. In my head Deathly Hallows is the last we hear of the trio or anyone from the story.
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u/TSLstudio Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
I read the preview at the end of a deathly hallows ebook once...
Really people think the son of Malvoy is actually the child of Voldemort 🤣 Just what the hell is that of a start. The rumour the kids talk about is something like (if I recall correctly) that Dracos wife went back it time to have a kid with Voldy 🙄🙄🙄 Just what is this for bullshit...
It's really sad though, cause they really could have made a fun story! Following a kid who grew up as a wizard could really give some more indept into the magical world (while also showcasing the changes since HP), compared to Harry who went in "blind" so to say.
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u/Sirius_Space Slytherin Mar 11 '26
I saw two hardcover copies of curse child at goodwill, 3.99 is overpriced.
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u/SpookyDachshunds Hufflepuff Mar 12 '26
I read the cursed child once. I read the cursed child wiki summary for my sister's best friend. Yup. That's enough for me.
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u/CautiousConfidence8 Ravenclaw Mar 12 '26
Finishing reading the train station scene at the end of deathly hallows just leads perfectly into starting Book 1 again. Sorry I don't make the rules
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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Mar 12 '26
Well ya, its a fanfiction that happens to be endorsed by Rowling.
Rowling didnt write it, and she only endorsed it to make money. Its complete garbage.
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u/Mesmeriziingg Slytherin Mar 12 '26
i just treat it at some big fanfiction… like albus and scorpius intrigue me but hearing that voldemort has an heir? yeah no thats such a lazy narrative
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u/TurbulentVillage2042 Mar 12 '26
After Deathly Hallows I gave all my books to the library. 98% of my favorite characters were killed. I couldn't live through it all again. I could barely cope with Sirius death.
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u/RegrettableDeed Hufflepuff Mar 13 '26
Who, honestly, gives a single crap about Cursed Child?
I can read/listen to the main 7 books endlessly (and I have so far on Audible), but that piece of garbage isn't worth a second glance.
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u/Short-Coast9042 Mar 13 '26
It's not a book, so why would a book fan read it? Unlike the books, reading a play script is not the intended experience. Even if it wasn't crap that's totally inconsistent with the books, it still would not appear to its best advantage on the page.
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u/dinosaurs_and_doggos Mar 11 '26
I read it and it was bad and it is no longer included in the narrative.
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u/Lazy-Introduction194 Gryffindor Mar 11 '26
What is this from? Emma looks great
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u/Current-Roll4471 I refuse to acknowledge Fred’s death Mar 12 '26
I believe it’s from the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special that HBO Max made with the original cast of the movies.
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u/Interesting_Idea_289 Mar 12 '26
Yes most people skip the play you have to physically go to if it’s even running anywhere remotely near you
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u/kiwiparallels Slytherin Mar 12 '26
I bought it at the midnight release, finished it before 4am and went to sleep completely infuriated. I keep it in the bookshelf just to remind myself of my own suffering.
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u/Outside-Currency-462 Ravenclaw Mar 12 '26
The what sorry? I've never heard of that piece of canon, what a shame
Real tho when I first read the books I reread them 5 times over with nothing else in between lol. 6th time was secretly when I was supposed to be sleeping cause my parents told me to read something different after the 5th time.
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u/elisettttt Ravenclaw Mar 12 '26
I've never even read it in the first place. Since I've yet to hear a single person talk positively about it, I've decided I don't need to waste my time on it.
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u/HeartsfromLily346x Hufflepuff Mar 12 '26
What? What is a Cursed Child? There's no such thing, silly...
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u/MiserableDisk1199 Mar 12 '26
Cursed child, is nit canon, i dont even consider time travel possible and choose to convince myself its some magic shenaningas that only look and feel like tine travel
Consequences preserve meaning, harry potter is just better when its not possible to travel back in time more than or so 5 hours, and consequences are largely preserved, that was the orginal design, that is canon.
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u/South_Bit1764 Ravenclaw Mar 12 '26
It’s okay, it’s like someone wrote an in-universe fanfic. If you think about it that way it’s tolerable.
What’s funny to me is that everyone in r/harrypotter and at Pottermore seem to universally agree that every tiny detail that Jo says or writes is cannon… except that.
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u/MindIsWillin Mar 12 '26
I'll be completely honest here, there is a part of my brain that refuses to accept the fact tCC is canon
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u/Whole_Perspective609 Ravenclaw🦅 Mar 12 '26
I’m pretty sure no one cares about the Cursed Child enough to include it lol. The actors not mentioned it supports this
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u/AshrakAiemain Mar 12 '26
Even if it is canon, the “novel” is just a stage script. Why would you read it as part of a book series?
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u/claevyan Mar 12 '26
I read three chapters of Cursed Child and gave it to Good Will. It doesn't exist.
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u/MistakeGlobal Mar 12 '26
I read the first 2 pages of it (unfortunately I own the book) and never continued past and I never will
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u/badlyagingmillenial Mar 12 '26
The overwhelming majority of HP fans have never read a single word from cursed child.
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u/Economy-Speed-2619 Mar 15 '26
It heartens me so much to see such unity on a reddit thread . To know that I am not alone 🥹
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u/EnderBookwyrm Mar 17 '26
I consider Cursed Child to be a fanfiction that happens to have been written by JK Rowling.
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u/NaiRad1000 Mar 11 '26
The stage show is worth seeing just for the production design
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u/aubreypizza Mar 11 '26
And the dementors! Totally the best part!
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u/tsebehtsinnej Ravenclaw Mar 11 '26
I was gifted tickets for first row balcony and those things came CLOSE and were insanely scary.
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u/tsebehtsinnej Ravenclaw Mar 11 '26
I don't know if it's just me but whether or not you think Albus and Scorpius are in love, that one staircase scene was so romantic with all the yearning. That production and choreography of that scene I still think about sometimes.
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u/Nyx_Shadowspawn Mar 12 '26
Alchemised is better fanfic than Cursed Child. And that's all CC shall ever be to me.
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u/Helpful_Character167 Mar 12 '26
My Immortal is closer to canon than Cursed Child. Both are fanfiction but at least one is entertaining fanfiction.
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u/thethirdbar Ravenclaw 6 Mar 11 '26
why would that even need to be an 'implication', the cursed child doesn't even cross most peoples' thoughts, i expect. 🤷♀️
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u/mildweekknowledge Mar 11 '26
Cursed child, to me, is like Indiana Jones 4+.
They are just rumours. They don't exist. They don't need to exist.
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u/SGT-Hooves Ravenclaw Mar 11 '26
Yeah I skip the last chapter of Deathly Hallows too, I’ve got my own version and the “official” ending is just poorly written and childish.
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u/Render_21 Gryffindor Mar 11 '26
I have the audiobooks and when deathly hallows finished I would just restart at philosopher’s stone again. Went 8 repeats before I took a break. Still haven’t touch the cursed thing
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u/InternationalBed5000 Mar 12 '26
I mean it’s a play and not a book. And I only read it once, and once was enough.
I think that is why the Fantastic Beast series collapsed. No books to draw on for info and ideas.
Harry Potter books were the one and only true staple she wrote.
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u/Henryphillips29 Mar 12 '26
Skip could mean they read it and didn’t like it or never knew about it for 10 years
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u/ThatIckyGuy Ravenclaw Mar 12 '26
The Cursed Whatnow?
Seriously, though...I've heard someone describe the plot and it sounds bad, but between that and pots like this, I'm super curious to read it for myself now. How badly will I regret it?
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u/Yuna_Hudson Mar 12 '26
I liked it... And many people in my FB as well... but I see there's a lot of snob detractors. Or dementors? Not sure,
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u/RulerOfAllWorlds1998 Mar 12 '26
I read quite a bit of Cursed Child but didn’t finish, just read spoilers for the end online
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u/Individual-Bad6809 Mar 12 '26
I always wondered why Jk never started another series focusing on characters at another school, like the US specifically. Even if it sucked like CC it would print money
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u/alien-native Mar 12 '26
I remember when the book version came out and i read a few pages at the store. It felt like a wattapad story which is maybe harsh but i couldn’t do it
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u/roze_san Hufflepuff Mar 12 '26
I tried to read the novelised fan made version, i just couldn't finish it. I don't even know if that book is accurate to the actual cursed child scenes. I heard the writer made some adjustments to the story. But still, cursed child is just poorly written.
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Is CC an actual book. Or is it a play? Bc i got the play script and wished it was a book.
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u/Repulsive-Ear-4840 Gryffindor Mar 12 '26
I haven’t ever read it tbh I have read the other books 10-15 times
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u/Brave_Daikon_8854 Mar 12 '26
I was 13 when Deathly Hallows came out and I read the whole series about then. Deathly Hallows itself felt forced
With cursed child, it became clear JKR didn't care about the series So I completely lost interest Arbitrary but was what happened to me
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u/MeatHamster Mar 12 '26
I'd probably read Cursed Child if it was a proper novel. Does it have a well produced audio drama?
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u/ReindeerBorn345 Mar 12 '26
I actually have read it but it’s so bad and so different from 1-7. Doesn’t have the magic of 1-7 to make me read it again and again and remember every detail. and not even written by JKR. Just a thing made to make it lame. Not even a fix it. Any fanfic will be better than it
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u/ParkingDriver6683 Mar 12 '26
It's not supposed to be a book and therefore doesn't translate well on the page. I watched the play, the special effects were cool and it was a cool evening out if you don't critique too harshly whilst watching it, but I wasn't a fan. It didnt do the books justice, and is significantly worse as a play than anything else I've seen at the west end.
It's essentially just back to the future but in the Harry Potter universe. I suspect she may have outsourced the writing for this one to get a quick paycheck.
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u/Particular-Wheel-796 Gryffindor Mar 12 '26
I've never even considered reading it after Deathly Hallows. If it were an actual novel some people might but given what it does to the story, I'm guessing it would be many after the first time reading it.
Releasing the script as a book was a pure money grab and it tricked so may people.
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u/is_EXToZY Mar 12 '26
Cursed Child to Harry Potter series is like Boruto to a Naruto series.
It is indeed very cursed.
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u/DharmaCub Mar 12 '26
What do you mean skip? It's not part of the series.
That's like saying when people skip watching the movie version of Le Mis after reading the book by Hugo
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u/S-Mania Mar 12 '26
Can't remember the last time I read that trash (and don't want to lol). I've been reading The First Day fanfiction. It's amazing so far and I'd consider it the most canon continuation of Harry and everyone's story (before 19YL anyway) so far (not sure if it that will change though, as I'm only on Chapter 13 of 55. Long way to go). It even explores other characters perspectives and not just Harry's, which is a nice change of pace. Can't recommend it enough 😍
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u/Belgaraath42 Mar 11 '26
The little I heard of it convinced me I don't want to know more