Harry potter and the cursed child book review

Harry potter and the cursed child book review series#

вЂThe Cursed ChildвЂ™ will resonate with us because our deepest hopes and fears are mirrored in Harry and Albus Severus, our need for friendship and acknowledgement is reflected in Scorpious, and because, sometimes, our capacity to love can trump death.HereвЂ™s a review of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for readers waiting to buy tickets to the first United States production when they go on sale.

Harry potter and the cursed child book review series#

Sure, itвЂ™s not the greatest fantasy series ever written, but it is the closest to our world. Only twice has she has delivered a perfect book in terms of plot and pace in this series - in вЂThe Prisoner of AzkabanвЂ™ and вЂThe Goblet of FireвЂ™.Д«ut nothing can take away the thrill of a Harry Potter story. Part One is better written than Part Two - RowlingвЂ™s strength lies in setting up a plot, and she exerts an exceptional command over the pace, till she rushes to tie up loose ends for the denouement. As a book, it would have fallen short in several departments, but as a script, it paints such a vivid picture of RowlingвЂ™s magical world that one wants nothing more than to watch the actual performance on stage. вЂHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildвЂ™ works because it is a play, a quasi-sequel to an enormously successful series. Albus Severus understands none of this - the shadow of his fatherвЂ™s celebrity eclipses his individual identity, leaving room for little else but bitterness.Д®very little thing Rowling does is magic? Not quite. He wasnвЂ™t really вЂњthe boy who livedвЂќ he was вЂњthe boy who survivedвЂќ, and with very little to call family. An orphan, Harry has hankered for a father-figure and found them (first, in Dumbledore, then Sirius), only to lose them. Heck, even Dumbledore got messed up in bad company! However, in the вЂCursed ChildвЂ™, we see a 37-year-old Harry who must navigate fatherhood tentatively, having no father-son relationship of his own to draw upon. In comparison to Hermione and Ron, Harry has always come off as a slightly one-note character whose goodness and sense of fairness are bordering on saintly. And only true friends learn to tell the difference, together. For it is harder to love than to hate one is a spark that keeps burning against the odds, and the other, an errant flame that seeks to destroy everything in its wake. It is not simply our destiny that shapes us - we are moulded by the friendships we form, the relationships we embark upon. вЂњIt matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be,вЂќ Albus Dumbledore said in вЂHarry Potter and the Goblet of FireвЂ™ and if that werenвЂ™t true, characters such as Severus Snape, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin would never have been recognised as the heroes they truly are. Since the start of the series, Rowling has consistently stressed on the importance of choice and agency. Rowling and her co-writers pack in a wealth of detail in Part One, but never shift the focus from the true joy of this story - young Potter and young MalfoyвЂ™s friendship. The plot moves very quickly, almost reminiscent of вЂDeathly HallowsвЂ™, where the action never gave up and every new chapter threw a new challenge at HogwartsвЂ™ brightest wizards and witches. But when a Time-Turner is confiscated from a former Death Eater, it unleashes a series of events that could set the clock back to the darkest days of the magical world. The two echo Harry and RonвЂ™s epic friendship, especially since the young Malfoy is hopelessly in love with AlbusвЂ™ cousin, Rose Granger-Weasley. In a cruel twist of fate, the Sorting Hat places him in Slytherin, where he forms an unlikely friendship with Draco MalfoyвЂ™s son, Scorpious.

вЂHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildвЂ™, RowlingвЂ™s eighth story, is not a novel but a вЂњspecial rehearsal edition scriptвЂќ, written by Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne for a production that premiered on Saturday in LondonвЂ™s West End.ДЄlbus Severus, named after Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape, is terribly burdened by the greatness of his name and his lineage. James is returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year and it is AlbusвЂ™ first year the 11-year-old is worried that he might get sorted into Slytherin, and not follow in the path of his parents and join Gryffindor, вЂњwhere dwell the brave at heartвЂќ.

Harry Potter finds himself at Platform 9Вѕ at KingвЂ™s Cross Station in London, with his wife, Ginny Weasley and their three children - James, Albus Severus and Lily. She begins where she left off in вЂHarry Potter and the Deathly HallowsвЂ™ (2007), in the chapter titled вЂњNineteen Years LaterвЂќ. In вЂHarry Potter and the Cursed ChildвЂ™, JK Rowling takes us back to the start - she opens at the close. Nothing can take away the thrill of a Harry Potter story, and the eighth book is testimony to that.