{"id":2193,"date":"2016-08-03T23:44:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:30:26","slug":"rowling-j-k-john-tiffany-jack-thorne-08-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2016\/08\/rowling-j-k-john-tiffany-jack-thorne-08-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowling, J.K., John Tiffany, & Jack Thorne: (08) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child <\/cite>(spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the spoiler post for\u00a0Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/em><\/strong>. The non-spoiler post is here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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An actual thing that characters in this play actually said, in discussing changes in the timeline:<\/p>\n

SCORPIUS: Ron took Hermione to the ball…. As friends. And they danced in a friendly way, and it was nice, and then he danced with Padma Patil and that was nicer, and they started dating and he changed a bit and then they got married and meanwhile Hermione became a \u2014<\/p>\n

ALBUS: \u2014 psychopath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes.\u00a0I an not making this up.<\/p>\n

Oh and Albus polyjuices into Ron and has to distract Hermione, with\u00a0the following\u00a0stage\u00a0directions:\u00a0“She tries to get into the room one final time, he blocks her with a kiss. It develops into quite a struggle.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Let me just ride the nopetopus <\/a>right on out of\u00a0here, huh?<\/p>\n

More generally:\u00a0the play really doubles down on the lack of queer representation. Snape explicitly compares his feelings for Lily to\u00a0Scorpius’ feelings for Albus; but Scorpius has an inexplicable crush on Rose, who he\u00a0keeps asking out even though she hates him, and who also disappears for a very long section of the play, and so really feels like the\u00a0Obligatory Heterosexual Love Interest. And\u00a0not a single character in the play is queer, unless I really missed something; no-one’s\u00a0even mentioned in passing as living with a same-sex partner or dating someone in an alternate timeline.<\/p>\n

Instead, Dumbledore apologizes to Harry for\u00a0hiding things from him, which is good, but reinforces his (closet) tragic queer status in the process: “I am no fit person to love . . . I have never loved without\u00a0causing harm.” Rowling is perfectly well aware of how controversial it’s been that she only revealed Dumbledore’s sexual orientation outside the books, and this feels like a really rotten response to that: the only even arguably queer person in the series is unfit to love and only does harm by loving. Thanks.<\/p>\n

There was a nice little bit with Snape when he said he didn’t act solely for Lily, and it’s awesome than Hermione is Minister for Magic (as long as she has her man to keep her from being evil!), but on the whole it’s too much rehashing\u00a0the past and daddy issues and not enough moving forward.<\/p>\n

Finally:\u00a0Cedric would not have become a Death Eater.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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