So, will there ever be a novelization of this? Fan novelization?

>>8342726
who cares, honestly

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>>8342726
>too lazy to write an actual book.
But Anon, it is a book.

>>8342736
It's a screenplay.

>>8342735
I do.
It's a shameless cash in unless some actual effort was put into it.
Otherwise it may as well be fanfiction.

>steal a secret time turner even though they were all supposedly destroyed
>they go back and prevent Cedric from dying and uh oh the future got changed which directly goes against the rules of the HP universe where time travel is a closed causality loop and you can't create alternate universes by changing things in the past BUT WHATEVER LOL
>the world is now evil, Voldemort has taken over, and there's a grimdark Hogwarts
>everyone calls Scorpius (Draco's son) "The Scorpion King"
>lots of dumb shit happens
>eventually the kids and Harry himself go back all the way to the night Voldemort killed Harry's parents
>Harry goes totally out of character and tells his son that he's a failure which got a bunch of people on tumblr fuckin pissed
>turns out that the girl who said she was Cedric's niece was actually A SECRET LOVECHILD OF VOLDEMORT AND BELLATRIX LESTRANGE NO SERIOUSLY I'M NOT EVEN MAKING THIS UP
>they all fight, the good guys win and the day is saved
>the end

Here, saved you some time.

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Is there going to be a novel version that has all the script parts removed?

Friendly reminder that Warner Brothers filed trademarks for a movie version of this shit.

>>8343264
And why is that a bad thing?

>>8343254
what's with the image

>>8343285
What about it?

>>8342738
No, it's a script for a okay.

>>8343292
It's a shitty reddit meme.

>>8343341
Who cares? You seem to know a lot about reddit anon, you sure you aren't a redditor?

is there a pdf going around

>>8343234
>>eventually the kids and Harry himself go back

whos 'the kids'?

>>8342738
Still in codex format tho

Seems a bit weird to read the script since it's highly unlikely that a film won't be made, or at the very least a filmed performance of the play. But then, I find reading plays a bit weird even when it's Shakespeare.

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So don't bother with it. I liked the old series, but I don't give a shit about middle-aged-over-worked Harry and suddenly-black-Hermione. Skip it. If they make it into a film with Emma Watson back as Hermione showing at least partial nudity, I'll consider it.

>>8342726
what's wrong with reading scripts?

So why the fuck did they make hermione black.

>>8345686
books never specified her skin color.

>>8345686
its more of a "up to the reader" deal. as is every book

>>8345702
Prisoner of Azkeban says she had a pale face.
Add in mousey hair and it's obvious what she was.

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>>8343234
I've read fanfiction that is better than that piss stream of alphabet soup that's called a screenplay.

>>8345686
She isn't. They just cast a black actor for the play in London. She was white in my reading and I'm willing to bet she was white in a majority of people's readings.

>>8343267
See >>8343234

>>8343388
Scorpious Malfoy and Albus Severus Potter

>>8345776
I'd watch it. The problem in the story was the dialogue more than anything, for me at least. The entire story of Harry Potter as "The Boy Who Lived" simply by being protected by his mothers love is already goofy as shit so I don't understand why anyone is taking this so radically.

>>8345789
Because the fans are starved for more stories that could flesh out this universe of illogical bullshit J.K Rowling made and all we get is some shitty fanfiction that looks like it was stolen from wattpad.

>>8343234
>>everyone calls Scorpius (Draco's son) "The Scorpion King"
it's been a long time since something on the internet made me laugh out loud

>>8345789
the books are goofy and dumb yes, but at least the ones prior to this followed the rules of their own universe. not being able to create alternate timelines is RULE NUMBER ONE of time travel in the HP universe, and going against that makes the entire final act of the third book impossible

>>8345968
Don't forget that all the girls at the edgy grimdark alternate Hogwarts want to take him to the "Blood Ball".

It's like fucking My Immortal.

It's weird how the characters in this read like they were written by Joss Whedon. Everyone's so snarky.

>>8343234
>>everyone calls Scorpius (Draco's son) "The Scorpion King"

Surely you jest.

>>8343234
Didn't Albus kiss Hermione five times?

Well it has awakened by inner homo to ship Albus and Scorpius. Thanks Rowling.

>>8346444
Probably just reflecting the author. She's a big name and she knows she can sell shit based on name alone.

>>8342726
STRETCHED

>>8343234
>>everyone calls Scorpius (Draco's son) "The Scorpion King"
no way

>>8346709
What's wrong with it?

>>8343234
Dont forget that huge rule where it's impossible for voldemort to feel love or something.

>>8342736
>It's a "next book in the series has a completely different cover than the others" episode
Unforgivable

>>8345686
It's theatre. If men can play women and women can play men and people can play talking hats and adults can play children, then why can't a black woman play a white character?

>>8345702
They did, just subtly.

There's a reason everything knows she's white.

I remember I jokingly came up with a conspiracy theory that Hermione was actually Japanese and super religious years ago due to the exact same reasoning. Nobody liked the idea then either.

>>8346665
Rowling didn't actually write the dialogue

>>8343234
wow, this is literally some fan fic ive read somewhere.
how do you know this?

So, is this any good? Or is it just what it seems it is? That is, a lazy way of making shitloads of money.

>>8349950
>a lazy way of making shitloads of money.
it's this. or rather a lazy way for rowling to stay relevant

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>>8343234
>everyone calls Scorpius (Draco's son) "The Scorpion King"
Too fucking funny

Voldemort's secret daughter was where I gave up.

>>8346444
I mean the plot is already badly written fan fiction so it wouldn't surprise me if the dialogue was also handled by a 13 year old girl

Stop it, all of you. You're ruining Voldemort Day.

>>8345702
But they specified Dean Thomas, Angelina Johnson, Lee Jordan, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Blair Zebini's skin colours, along with the Patel twins.
I think it's safe to say she was intended to be white.
A black woman playing a white girl/woman is no big deal.
The only issue in my opinion is that Rowling is playing it off as if she always intended Hermione to be black, which is obviously a retcon to gain brownie points with her huge tumblr fan base.

>>8347579
>subtly
>Describes her as pale
>Makes her white on all the artwork
>Her actor in the movie is white

She also can't be black because it would make make Draco's comments on her being a mudblood go from being about blood purity bullshit to generic racism.

>>8343234
You cannot be fucking serious? Can someone confirm this?

Scorpius was adorable and the best part of the book for the first act and then Thorne of course went overboard into quipmeister quirkatron territory. The rest of the book was even worse, though, so Scorpius remains the best part.

>>8346652
>tfw

>>8350235
It's all real, f.am.

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Tumblr is split between "haven't read it" and "it's fucking stupid"

I would read an actual novel of this, just because it's a continuation of something I was really into as a kid. But, I'm really fucking legitimately autistic and I find there isn't enough context in screenplays to give what I'm reading any meaning, emotion, or logic.

I'm not wasting my money on that.

Play will never come to my country. So I'm skipping this one entirely.

>>8350300
Man, I know what you mean about the autism. I had a hell of a time attempting not to read it like some kind of bad rapid-fire slam poetry. All the emotion fell flat and I have to say that with the dialogue in some of the scenes, a novelization wouldn't even improve things much.

Logic is absent entirely.

>>8350300
>just because it's a continuation of something I was really into as a kid.
>I'm really fucking legitimately autistic
Then pray it never gets a novel form release. If you have any sentimental attachment to the previous books, stories, world or characters it will trigger you hard. It shits on literally every aspect.

>>8350323
Good to know. I'll be sure to avoid it if it comes out as an actual novel.

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'ALBUS: The Bathilda Bagshot? A History of Magic Bathilda Bagshot?
SCORPIUS: The very same. Oh my, that’s her. Wow. Squeak. My geekness is a-quivering.'

>>8350300

I have no problem picturing the scene in my head, but the formatting still makes it feel like it was written for some special kind of retards

>Anon: I will click post now!
>Anon clicks the post button.
>Message on the screen reads: post submitted!

It's a fucking raw workfile. Nobody outside theater or film crews should be reading these. Publishing it as a book to cash in is fucking lazy.

i literally kek'd when albus was kissing hermione multiple times

>let's have another kid

i rate it 6/10 as a huge hp fan, enjoyable read but the time traveling stuff was just... convenient

how the fuck voldemort and bellatrix had a kid, he probably doesn't even wanted to ever have sex with anyone

i liked the evil hogwarts idea and it should've been the central point of this story

i just have trouble believing that snape, ron and hermione trusted scorpius almost instantly with their lives and they were just killed because a kid said something about them he couldn't possibly know

what else... harry seriously isn't himself, dumbledore and ginny are no-characters basically, ron was ron and i liked draco's evolution as a character. that's it, really

>>8350294
You left out the main group who are just celebrating how gay the kids are.

>>8343234
lmao this sounds fucking awful, I'm just gonna pretend this is fanfiction and non of it is actually canon

>>8342726
> writing a script
> too lazy to write a book

It's like you don't view scripts as a form of writing, OP. I know it's fucking Harry Potter, but how dense can you be?

It's shit but then again so is everything else HP, if you read them today and without the nostalgia goggles you would realize this.

Its not that bad, the idea of Ron and Hermione geting together only once was nice. :P But, ok, you modyfie few parts, add 2-3 dialogs and you get typicall, even yaoi, fanfiction. I mean, come one! Voldemorts douther? Really? My first reaction after reading thos was 'Jezz, thats chep'. I was really thinking, how was that even possible? I mean, i just cant imagine Voldemort having sex with someone. The only idea i had was that he jerk himsef off, came into a glass ore something like that ang gave it to Bellatrix with 'Don;t dissapointe me, if you do, you will die".
But becouse nostalgia is verry powerfull kind of magic, i love it anyway :) And even thou Rowling clame, that its finale, i dont belive her becouse she said that after part 7, and ofcourse i will read anything she will gave us.

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>>8351438

why is everybody here calling this a screenplay?

that would be a p shitty ruse if that's what you were going for

becouse it is screenplay, its srcipr with dialogs and didascalias (Blocking).

>>8350227
>Draco's comments on her being a mudblood
Good point.

I think the biggest failure is Rowling not moving away from the high school as centre of the universe format.

>>8350239
>then Thorne of course went overboard into quipmeister quirkatron territory
Yes that sounds so unlike the style of JK "stretching their legs" Rowling.

Great thread. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go stretch my legs.

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What did he mean by this?

>>8351513

Should've kept it all at the school the non-school bits were the worst of 7 and what happened there sounded more interesting than what Potter was up to

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>>8351606
The same thing he meant by this.

>>8351614
This reads like a 15 year old's first attempt at a play. The dialogue, directions, plot and characters are all so incredibly miserable. Why didn't Rowling get somebody better to continue her universe?

Scorpius spent the whole book trying to get Albus to fuck him, then randomly hits on his cousin in the end, why

if you're gonna go full yaoi fanfic, at least commit to it

>>8351606
Albus wants someone with a big dick who knows how to use it, it seems

>>8351626
He was hitting on Rose the entire god damn time mate. I only read up to the twelfth act and the dude is thirsty as fuck for her.

>>8351614
There really were some moments i thought they would kiss...

>>8351606
>>8351632
So he prefers big guys.

>>8351637
He's pretty thirsty for both

He wants an incestuous threesome

>>8351637
They made it clear he had a crush on her in the 3 or so scenes she's in, but the majority of the play is just him and Albus being gay as fuck for each other.

>>8351637
latter in scens, when they are alone you will see what we are talking about :P

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>>8351647
Like this?

>>8351660
>To the depths of your belly, to the tips of your fingers
How does Albus know so much about Scorpius' fingers and belly, I wonder?

>>8351655
>this is what passes for screenwriting these days

>moreno and mignolet are still in liverpool's starting 11

they're accidents waiting to happen

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>>8351679
>come to /lit/ to talk about harry potter
>instead get reminded of this
I didn't need this m8

>>8351660
Sweet Romeo and Julius

>>8342726
>So, will there ever be a novelization of this?

Fucking hope so. I would love to read about the budding friendship between Albus and Scorpius in a more poetic way, and with much more content. Scorpius a best.

>>8352011
Agreed. How did the Malfoys end up with a child so pure and kawaii?

so then Scorpius was the cursed child right?

>>8352019
It's like "half blood prince" being Snape, but also kinda being Tom Riddle and Harry

Cursed Child is probably Delphi in the most literal way, but also Harry, Albus, and Scorpius thematically.

>>8350294
>4chan is reporting on what Tumlbr is doing as if it matters

I remember when It used to be other way around.

>>8352066
C'mon anon don't ruin Voldemort day for us

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>>8352066
>>8352114
If we're going full Tumblr.

>>8345702
in the third book it says "Hermoine's white face" so

>walk into B&N
>HARRY POTTER HARRY POTTER HARRY POTTER towering in the front display
>do a 360 and walk out of there

>>8352148
>leave a bookstore because they're advertising the best-selling book of the year
sensible

>>8352167
>advertising the best-selling
makes sense.

>>8352167
I'd imagine it's the biggest release of the decade, whoever came up with the "8th Harry Potter book (definitely not a script guys)" marketing campaign was a genius.

>>8352011
>friendship

>>8352319
You blow your friends in the dormitory, right?

>>8352333
Doesn't everyone?

>>8350235
>>8345968
>>8346629
>>8346709
>>8350152
That was a pretty accurate description by >>8343234
My parents got it for me, easy read and semi-enjoyable although it was literally fan fiction. Harry was a twat, his children are all twats, ron was a twat. Scorpius was the only redeeming character as well as his father Draco.

Seriously though, it will probably make a pretty cool play. Lots of special effects and the dialogue might be funnier with actors putting in over the top performances

>>8352169
of course it does

or would you be surprised to learn that mcdonald's spends more on advertising than its less successful competitors?

>>8352333
Scorpius is too pure for that, he and Albus probably just get in bed pull the curtains around and eat sweets together or something.

>>8347579
I mean, her frizzy hair is pretty much her defining physical attribute in the books.
Do asian girls get frizzy hair?

>>8343234
What the fuck? Why ruin a perfectly good ending with this bullshit? Harry Potter was over in 2007.

>>8352638
>perfectly good ending
lol
Even when /lit/ begins to revel in the shit they can't identify the good shit from the bad.

Has anyone seen the play?

Holy shit I knew goodreads was awful, but those reviews. Those reviews, man.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29056083-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child

>>8352696
>Holy shit I knew goodreads was awful
You're the type of guy who holds a plunger the wrong way and complains that it doesn't work.

>>8350215

I've always found it weird how Rowling seems so concerned with social justice issues when her books were chock full of provincial minded ethnic stereotypes.

You can tell she's not that smart and she's just bumbling her way through being an sjw because her public relations team told her to. IDK, if your brand is worth 15 billion does that mean you can say whatever you want or that every tweet goes through a vetting process?

>>8352717
Sorry, I should have specified I meant the goodreads community. As a rating and recommendation tool it's splendid.

>>8352723
>provincial minded ethnic stereotypes
The Chinese girl being called Cho Chang always used to make me laugh, like she was trying to think of a Chinese name in the pre-internet age and that's what she came up with.

>>8352319
Friendship with benefits.

>>8352604
FUCK. I need to read more canon material of those two.

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>>8343234
This shit is worse than My Immortal

>>8345702
>>8350215
this whole "black hermione" bullshit makes me think about a character from this random YA series, where his name is literally Mr. CeltWhite McWhiteCelt and he's described with the most caucasian features ever, YET, obviously mentally challenged tumblrina cunts think he could "very well be POC uwu"
...i fucking swear

>>8345686
Because she dies first.

>>8352723
Mind you, this is a woman who literally took out an injunction against people who accidentally received their books early.
Rowling is a loser who accidentally started a book phenomenon with Harry Potter. The books are pure garbage and only appeal to children or people who act like children. Everything she did that wasn't HP was boring and bland. She even said herself HP was over, but returned to the series after her attempts to write outside the series flopped. She's an egomaniac who manipulates her fans and her fame.

>>8354090
why do you care? you sound edgy

>>8343234
>they go back and prevent Cedric from dying and uh oh the future got changed which directly goes against the rules of the HP universe where time travel is a closed causality loop and you can't create alternate universes by changing things in the past BUT WHATEVER LOL

I'm mostly pissed at this. It was the point of the climax of the third book that you can't change the past.

>>8354090
>The books are pure garbage and only appeal to children or people who act like children

Nice opinion

>>8354835
Didn't they cover that with the 5 hour rule? Go back in time further than that, and shit starts to destabilise. I always preferred the BttF rules of time travel anyway.

Should i read it?

>>8355064
I read it in about 4 hours so it isn't a great time waste. The plot is fairly ridiculous, but some of the new characters are interesting enough to keep you going. If you like Harry Potter, or just have a nostalgia boner you may as well give it a go.

>>8355078
I kind of want it to be bad so i can mock it, thats why i want to read it

>>8355080
Eh go for it then, again taken as a whole I found it mostly average, rather than eye gougingly bad. This >>8343234
lists most of the ridiculous plot points.

>>8352638
>a perfectly good ending

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What did she mean by this?

>>8351606
>>8351640

That explains the "Bane" character
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Cursed_Child

Check "Nuno Silva" under Original cast and principal roles

Some of the more hated parts of the book I actually like. The trolley lady was cool. A trope of the series/universe is a seemingly innocuous thing that can harm you. Howler, boggart, diary, blood quill, etc. It isn't even the first time in the series that a sweet, innocent-looking old lady was revealed to be something else. Trolley lady's name drops were nothing but fan service though.

I also liked Cedric becoming a Death Eater. It demonstrated the corruptibility of strong people and how if Cedric can "go bad", we're one or two calamities away from a similar fate ourselves.

I didn't like the plot or any of the new characterization. I'm still greatly looking forward to Beasts.

Ugh, my local Chapters has this whole fucking balloon arch up for this book.

Why the fuck does anyone still fucking care about Harry Potter? It was an early 2000s phenomenon that literally nobody from the latest generation of moppets has read, and it isn't even that good anyways. Why can't they just stick to reading their Hunger Games clones like good little sheep?

Man, I can't wait for Ferretbrain to weigh in on this...

Will Hermione be black in the eventual movie production?

>>8350379
Kek. Almost bad enough to believe.

>>8352638
>a perfectly good ending

http://ferretbrain.com/articles/article-149

>>8355697
His diatribe about Harry going to his death because "dumbledore told him to" is misguided. I'm not sure if he's just trying to be provocative or he's really that dim.

>>8355970
He's telling it like it is. How is that dim?

>>8356339
It's wrong. He's not "telling it like it is".

>>8356362
Yes he is.

>>8356436
You can not to do that if what you are saying is wrong.

>>8356447
I have no reason to believe what I'm saying is wrong, so it's not wrong.

>>8354090
> her attempts to write outside the series flopped

The fuck? In its first three weeks of release, The Casual Vacancy sold over 1 million copies worldwide.
The Cuckoo's Calling started by selling reasonably for a debit crime novel, and received acclaim from other crime writers and critics—a Publishers Weekly review called the book a "stellar debut",while the Library Journal's mystery section pronounced the novel "the debut of the month". Once Rowling was discovered to be the author, of course, sales rose to #1, and it sold over a million copies in the UK alone. The sequels have all done very well, and everything she has ever written that isn't already a movie is being made into TV miniseries. There is no reasonable measure by which you could claim that Rowling's non-Potter publications have "flopped." She's still a best-selling author, and few people who made their fame writing for children or YA have managed to jump genres and target audiences so successfully. Rowling does not need money, and never will again.

>>8355167
Fag means cigarette in Britain

>>8350207
Underrated post. Also that was the exact moment I lost it and wanted to toss the book across the room. A fucking psychopath who doesn't let anyone utter his 'bad ass' alternate villain name and is serious as shit supports a god damn school holiday named after him?

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>>8352756

Where can I get a pirate version of this?
I want to suffer.

>>8357405
>Once Rowling was discovered to be the author, of course, sales rose to #1, and it sold over a million copies in the UK alone.
By the time she'd written the 3rd book sales across all formats for the first 2 were 1.5M copies. Actual book sales were under 400k for the first one over two years. This is with a highly sophisticated marketing strategy and high value brand name too.

The OP on the other hand sold 2M in 2 days. Nobody gives a shit about Rowling (who seems to be distancing herself somewhat as the fan reactions trickle in), just about their next canonical HP fix, it could be written by Jack Thorne for all anyone cares.

And the reviews for the cuckoo one were mostly middling. There were some outright negative ones before and after the big reveal too.

>>8357405
>Rowling does not need money, and never will again.
That's what they all say.

>>8351613
>Should've kept it all at the school the non-school bits were the worst of 7 and what happened there sounded more interesting than what Potter was up to
This is the problem when they all grow up tho. The entire magical universe seems to be centred around a boarding school, and nothing any of the original cast does now they aren't students is going to mean anything. You can't write "wouldn't it be cool if you were chosen for a magical but also posh school" over and over either.

Do you think Rowling's one of those people that had no life outside of school and forever tries to relive what she thinks of as her "glory days"? And that's why there exists almost nothing outside that bloody school?

>>8357752
>And that's why there exists almost nothing outside that bloody school?
I think it's more she used to read a lot of classic British kids literature growing up, and a boarding school is a feature in almost all of them, every kid of her era probably read Enid Blyton so she would at least be familiar with books like Malory Towers, Famous Five etc, Harry Potter is pretty much an update of that kind of fiction.

>>8352638
>it's been 9 years
holy fug

>>8342741
until you stop paying for art it will always be a shameless chash in, brah.

>>8357802
This. Boarding schools are a major trope of British kids fiction, especially group detective novels. And the HP books have always group detective novels at heart, especially early on.

>>8343234
The book landed on my desk this morning from a coworker who bought it and had already finished it.

Now I know better than to even bother cracking it open.

I don't get how Voldy was even fertile after being resurrected as a half snake monstrosity with several portions of his mortal soul divided from his body. Like, I can not imagine him even having a functional penis. Now that I know he had sex I can't stop thinking about how he must have done other things, like, he had to poop. Voldemort had to poop you guys.

>>8358135
maybe it was just magic brain sex or something

>>8358143
No, you have to think like a true writer. Obviously Voldemort and Bellatrix used a time turner to go back to when he was still Tom Riddle and then Bellatrix boned him. And then time stops. And then it turns over, thinks a bit, and begins spooling backwards, slow at first...

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>>8343234
How the fuck did Rowling look through this and go, "Yeah this is good"?

>tfw Backwards With Purpose is better than this

>books specifically mention Hermione getting a tan
>Rowling early concept art she's clearly white
>every cover with her she's clearly white

>but it was never specified with absolute certainty lmao

>>8355667
DONT U GUISE KNOW THAT THIS THING I DISLIKE IS ACTUALLY REALLY BAD??? WAKE UP SHEEPLE

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>>8343254
Fuck off back to cuckitt .

>>8354711
She was living on welfare when she wrote HP. She has cashed in on the series to an extent that is incredible.
Games, Toys, Books, Candy, anything you could name HP was on.
She jewed out her franchise and stumbled into what I call the Pet Rock effect (I'm sure there is a more official and proper name). Essentially it is a product that gathers a following so large that it will not and can not ever fail, regardless of the quality of the product. Harry Potter isn't a literary masterpiece. It's a mediocre to decent written book series that has been overrated to absurd points. Same as Twilight, except Twilight is marketed specifically to teenage girls.
That demographic (10-18) has been historically incredibly hard to crack, but when you can manage to crack it, you will stumble into obscene amounts of money.
Also, JK Rowling has abused the copyright system to her own advantage.
To normies it seems "edgy" but it's all absolutely true.
I have done my research on this topic.

>>8357405
Yet again, the reveal of Rowling as author was deliberate. The name alone will top any chart.
Mystery books are crap anyway.
Any old hack can write one.

>>8358619

When I was a kid and I saw something with "Star Wars" on it, I would clamor for my parents to buy it, no matter what it was. My parents usually told me "No," but I guess a lot of families have enough disposable income that it's worth saving the tantrum to just buy off the little shits. Also I knew that if I really pushed my luck I was in for a clobbering, which isn't something white kids usually have to deal with anymore.

What is odd is how loyal adults are to entertainment franchises. The idea of a Harry Potter sequel movie script co-written by another author seems like the lamest thing imaginable to me, even if I liked Harry Potter I wouldn't pay a dollar for this at the thrift store or remainder pile (where millions of copies will inevitably end up).

>>8343234
who wrote this????

>>8343234
If voldemort would fuck anything it would be nagini not bellatrix

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>>8358867
>voldemort fucking nagini

>>8358683
I was at a grocery store the other day and they had piles and piles of books 30% off. You can find a copy anywhere nowadays. I think it's most likely just people ordered way too much and got caught off guard when nobody bought it.

>>8358619
>It's a mediocre to decent written book series that has been overrated to absurd points. Same as Twilight
They're both trash. There's other book series written for children that aren't shit.

>>8342726
Surely they'll do a film adaptation and/or film the play. Just wait for that. Or if you're that desperate go visit London, it's pretty cool.

>>8358897
I worked in a bookshop in a relatively small town and we still had people lined up for two hours picking up midnight pre-orders when the sixth book came out. And the checkout process was pretty much "hand us your vouchers, we'll hand you your books, next please."

This book's been getting advertised like crazy so I think people really expected the fans to turn up in droves again.

>>8345686
She auditioned best, probably. Also possible somebody wanted some extra publicity, but that hardly seems necessary given that it's Harry Potter. Is it a big deal for you?

>>8357667
There is a legit epub of the script on BookZZ.

>>8357802
I think you're on the money with Mallory Towers, another one is Tom Brown's School Days (that seems to be very heavily borrowed from), but Famous Five had boarding school as more of a footnote and is pretty much what the kids did on their summer hols. And as said earlier in the convo that part of Harry Potter was shit.

I think partly she herself has a massive hard on for the boarding school fantasy (no doubt that's the major nerve touched with most people), but she also shot herself in the foot with making Harry's muggle family so irredeemable and/or not allowing the focus to move away from them much when in the non - magical real world. She'd have opened up a whole new dimension if Harry had spent some time with Hermione's parents even.

Since she very overtly has desires and delusions of writing like Dickens, if I were in her shoes the obvious direction would be writing a bildungsroman about Harry's son. And a very simple story to fit in with above would be a reversal of the original, he grew up in the magical world and goes off to find out about our world. It'd also hit a slightly higher reading age than the first lot. But 2bh I don't think she has the skill to do this, and I doubt very much she'd want a journey that she squeezed 7 books out of condensed into only one or two.

>>8358277
>Arguing rationally with the KANGS crowd

>>8359155
>Since she very overtly has desires and delusions of writing like Dickens

That explains why I like Dickens.

>>8359617
They both kinda have the same style of humor.

>>8359617
I feel mostly she's copied him superficially. She's Dickens in prose style and Blyton/Tom Brown's in substance.

I almost hate Dickens' prose but like his stories and what he writes about. I think that's why I like the golden era Russian authors so much.

>>8359631
>She's Dickens in prose style

As a Dickens fan, not long enough.

Her similarity is how her world is full of exaggerated, caricatured people. And some black comedy.

>>8359631
>I think that's why I like the golden era Russian authors so much
>liking translated prose

>>8358277
>but it was never specified with absolute certainty lmao
Do you think she's been reading 10 elemental masters?
>I never specified the RGB values of anyone's skin colour so it's unspecified!

>>8359648
I've read some of them in Russian too, but reading them in translation fits my point anyway.

>>8359643
>Her similarity is how her world is full of exaggerated, caricatured people. And some black comedy.
So long as we can agree she misses Dickens' incessant social commentary (at least in any meaningful way) I'm happy.

>>8359670
I love her SPEW stuff though. It's obvious she was mocking SJWs.

...And then only to join them now in the future.

>>8359686
>SPEW

Oh boy, all those fanfics taking that shit seriously

>>8346640
Must be that jungle fever

>>8352552
So is Scorpius a good guy or a bad guy?

>>8360446
He's a good guy. He's Albus' dorky best friend.

>>8360446
He is best guy.

>>8360446
A shining gem in this pile of shit. Easily the most likeable HP character of the lot.

>not learning italian to understand a new bookfu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ9x_aTZPY4

>>8360469
This. I seriously want JK to write more about him, at least on Pottermore.

>>8358969
Play is completely booked until next year. I doubt anyone will be able to get legitimate tickets for quite a while.
Scalping market for this play must be fucking crazy. Is scalping illegal in UK?

>>8360997
The video is captioned so just set it to translate to English and you're gold

>>8360997
>NO

Harsh.

>>8360997
Fuck I want to impregnate her

>>8361043
At most London theatres you can queue up early on the day as a certain number of tickets are reserved for on-the-day sales. I imagine for this people would be doing it -stupidly- early, though.

They'll probably show it live in cinemas at some point too.

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>>8360446
Scorpius and Albus are best boys.

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>>8361500
>>8361507
>>8361513
>>8361516
why didn't they just make them gay? doesn't jk want progressive points? like this they're just blue-balling us.

>>8361522
I actually don't know Potter fans would spontaneously orgasm across the world if Harry and Draco's kids hooked up, and its a play, a play being performed in the West End of London no one would bat an eye, so its weird she missed the diversity points.

>>8361522
Because if you make it more ambiguous it probably spawns more of a following for the taboo element

>>8343234
Dont forget Harry and Draco become friends.

>>8361043
Of course it fucking isn't. The West End has perfected the art of scalping tickets.

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>>8346640
Seriously? Any particular bullshit reason why he did that?

>>8361500
>>8361507
>>8361513
>>8361516
That is really gay.

>>8355451
Oh my fucking god this cannot be real

>>8351606
That's really gay

I just hope the upcoming Fantastic Beast movie wouldn't be shit.

I almost feel like she deliberately made the play as terrible as possible in an effort to completely kill Harry Potter once and for all so she can move on with her life

>>8362843
I think it's like "What is the lowest level of effort and quality I can put in to maximise profits?"

The quality here was obviously too low, so I expect the next release to be much more carefully written.

>>8362835
Don't worry, it's written by Rowling herself so it has to terrible

>>8363539
oh, sorry for name. /pol/ risk

>>8361522
She will probably reveal in an interview that Scorpius is bisexual or something. And I would jump with joy.

>>8363772
Except that's basically a cop-out. It would just show she's not brave enough to make someone gay or bi in the actual story.

>>8364402
So classic J.K Rowling then.

>>8364498
Pretty much, even the Percy Jackson guy managed to write a gay kid and give him a boyfriend.

>>8364402
Considered he asked out Rose at the end of the play (and you can tell from his autistic interactions with her at various points during the story that he has a thing for her), him being bi is more believable than him simply being gay.

By the looks of this thread /lit/ really has been taken over by reddit.

>>8364779
They will be corrupted. It is inevitable. The e/lit/ist will can not be overcome, it only spreads.

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>>8343234
>prevent Cedric from dying
cedric turns emo and turns into a death eater and kills neville. Not kidding

>>8358277
>Roland Deschain from The Dark Tower is explicitly referred to as a "honky mo-fa"
>"she could feel his whiteness"
>"grey meat"
>King said that his inspiration was The Man With No Name
>cast in the movie by a black guy
>now the whole detta character makes no sense
HOL UP

JK Rowling is a fucking hack and she probably only wrote a new Harry Potter book because there was a new Star Wars coming out and she wanted to join in on that nostalgia cashwagon

Has there ever been a case like this of an author allowing fanfiction to take equal precedence with, and even supercede, their own work? Normally the author has to die before the awful hack sequels get written.

Why has Rowling sanctioned this? It just leaves such a bad taste in my mouth the way the Harry Potter series has been handled since it finished. She doesn't need the money. If she so desperately wanted Harry Potter to be a West End stage play, she could write it herself! Why's she letting some random fanfic autist do it?

Fuck this play and fuck the new upcoming films.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/04/14/when-jk-rowling-said-shed-never-do-harry-potter-comic-books/

Harry Potter comic books incoming. Is Rowling Jewish?

>>8365731

Unless they make Detta white since only white people are racist.

>>8365977
>Why has Rowling sanctioned this?
From what I could work out, she wrote something like a first draft, then instead of releasing another novel got others in to turn it into a screenplay/stageplay. So I'm guessing a mix of testing the waters and a cash grab.

Now it's had some negative feedback she's washing her hands of it. I expect there's going to be a Cursed Child 2.0 that'll be heavily revised.

>>8365966
>she probably only wrote a new Harry Potter book

This didn't happen though.

>>8366125
So it's pure cash in according to you?

>>8366142

Well it is, but I was more implying that its not a book nor did she write it.

>>8366068
Has it had negative feedback? I've no idea what the fanbase's reaction has been to it, but the couple of critics' reviews I've seen were quite positive. Maybe it plays better on the stage - taken less seriously and more of a 'this is a made-up hypothetical what-if story in the Harry Potter world' feeling rather than set-in-stone canon.

>>8366148
Check social media rather than print media. All the print media reviews bar one or two seem to be gushy vague tripe about how they believe in magic yet again with this play, or some equally tired trope. Social media however is full of terminator trolley, time travelling plot holes, Voldemort day and other shit and has been since the play came out p much.

And on the stage in general, you're being a little bit insulting there bruv. A good play/performance feels substantial.

>>8366146
If she didn't write it though she's slapped her name on it, that's my point. If you're going to go with "she didn't write it at all" don't shy away from the implications.

>>8366016
Anime when?

>>8366322
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qxNES79fPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpsF6pIs9ek
Which flavor?

>>8366492
that theme music for the first one is catchy as fuck but I like the second video's style

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>>8366492
>Butchering the Baccano theme with Moeshit

>>8366322
When they realise Perry Hatter who goes to a college of magicianing could avoid them royalties.

I'd rather have a Very Potter Musical canonised than this travesty. More faithful to the source material.

>>8364779
>>8364816
Bah, /lit/ only reads meme books like Infinite Jest anyways.

>>8364849
Wot.