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By turning his back on relatives and family friends, Albus essentially punctures the mythos that surrounds his family. This corrects a long-standing problem that I’ve had with the Harry Potter series, where those in House Slytherin were made villains by mere association. The moment is so different from what might have happened in the earlier books, where Rowling hammered home themes of loyalty to friends and one's sorted house. You go on.Īlbus: I wouldn’t expect you to. Rose : Yes, well, we should probably sit somewhere else. There’s an amazing moment in the beginning when Albus and Scorpius meet for the first time: With those issues, the story demonstrates that it has a deeper level of maturity than the earlier series: Rowling tackles some nuanced angles that never quite came through in Harry’s story, but what took me by complete surprise was how Harry and Draco Malfoy not only come to the point where they tolerate one another, but their children become best friends, against all odds. It works for the most part, although it’s a little inexplicable that Harry hadn’t confronted some of these issues with his first two children. Rowling uses the book as a sort of snapshot of a deeply emotional tale between father and son. Harry, for his part, has trouble bonding with his son, who’s trying to cope with his father’s enormous legacy. There’s other, more subtle worlds where Albus wasn’t sorted into his original school Slytherin: he ended up in Gryffindor, but his problems with his father continue. There’s a world where Voldemort won the Battle of Hogwarts, showing off a dystopian world where evil triumphs. As they make one adjustment, everything leans precipitously in one direction, while a readjustment makes everything go the other way. The results, as one might expect with a time travel story, are drastic. His office has recently confiscated a time turner, and in a fit of teenage angst, Albus and Scorpius decide to try and make one dark episode in Harry Potter’s past right: saving Cedric Diggory’s life during the Triwizard Tournament during the Goblet of Fire. The young Potter and his father have a strained relationship, a result of the mythos that has followed Harry since his showdown with Voldemort at Hogwarts. The story largely follows Harry’s son Albus, who is accepted to Hogwarts and gets sorted into Slytherin along with Draco Malfoy's Scorpius. With the world at peace, Rowling uses the book to show how tenuous their world is, and how it could have been extremely different. While the series is a nice glimpse into how everyone moved on, it’s deeply rooted in the past. Harry and Ginny Potter have three children in Hogwarts, while Hermione and Ron Granger-Weasley and Draco Malfoy have their own children. Harry is in charge of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Ron joins his brother at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes joke shop, and Hermione becomes the Minister of Magic. It’s 20 years after the events of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and the magical world has moved on with their lives, rebuilding after the devastation that Voldemort brought during his return. Rowling has said that The Cursed Child is the last Harry Potter story, but did so in a way that appears to leave the door open for further stories with the new characters it introduced. What it does do, however, is provide an interesting insight into what the impact of the adventures of Harry and his friends had on the world down the road. The Cursed Child is billed as the "eighth Harry Potter story," but it’s one that doesn’t feel as though it’s really connected with the epic story that Rowling played out over those seven novels. Some spoilers ahead for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. While there’s stage direction in line with the dialogue, it’s clear that you’re missing out on what’s apparently a spectacularly staged production. The fact that it’s being published in hardcover form (it sits nicely on the shelf along with the rest of the books) is a bit misleading, because it’s just a small part of the larger experience that Rowling and her co-writers were aiming for. The book is just a small part of the experience Rowling and her co-writers are aiming for A regular script will be released later this year, now that the play has opened. The first thing to get out of the way with this book is that it’s not a novel, which is one of the things that has been confusing to a lot of people: it’s the rehearsal script for the play that just opened in the Palace Theatre in London’s West End. What’s most rewarding about this story however, is that it’s grown up with its characters and readers. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child came out in bookstores earlier this week, and it’s a welcome return to familiar magical stomping grounds. After a long absence, Harry Potter is back.
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