Review of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Photo DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / Getty Images)
An entire generation entered the world of literature and raised hand J.K Rowling and Harry Potter. Thus the idea of reuniting Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with characters who accompanied them for almost a decade, in books and movies, could not be more attractive, despite the clear differences the first deliveries of the saga.
the first essential is that this is the adaptation of a script for a play, not a novel use you can remember, in form and substance, to I read so far.
beyond, we speak of a story begins just after the epilogue of the Deathly Hallows , written by JK Rowling and adapted by Jack Thorne .
broadly speaking, the book tells the first years at Hogwarts Albus Severus Potter , third son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley.
Le accompany Scorpius Malfoy , son of Draco, creating a protagonist couple retransmitted, almost every page, the value and weight friendship in their lives.
On the other hand, as we see how Albus tries to deal with his family problems and Hogwarts, we take a look, past 19 years since the Battle of Hogwarts , the lives of the trio protagonist and other characters weight as Draco Malfoy, Neville Longbottom and Professor McGonagall.
most narrative burden, obviously, rests with Albus and, at bottom, the relationship with his father used to fly the story .
Harry Potter is a stressed worker Ministry of Magic and a father who does not know how to cope on a day to day with Albus, overcome by the burden of being the son of one of the greatest heroes in the history of magic.
But, here, format influences everything is perhaps too direct . Nothing narrative focus on the experiences of the protagonists during a school year at Hogwarts or stop at telling what happened to the old protagonist trio during these nearly two decades. Eventually, in a full story ellipsis , moving very fast and there is no time to go into details.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is not at all what I expected. After the official confirmation that it was the eighth adventure saga , maintained the illusion of seeing the world of Harry Potter from another perspective, meet characters with interesting stories to tell and see how it had affected the over time Harry, Ron, Hermione and company.
This logical if we consider the time constraints and pace of a play , it makes relationships between characters feel too light, shallow and missed.
also, the physical and temporal context is almost always vague and poorly defined. In fact, the period of time covered by the work does not have an obvious justification and can generate confusion, if we look at certain decisions or actions of the characters.
From the same premise that leads to the adventure until the final stretch, narrative decisions are mostly highly upgradable , coming to change the rules established so far in the series.
One of the key moments the story is resolved precipitously and improbable, a character of great weight in the course of history could not be defined in worse shape and, finally, the great revelation of the story borders on the absurd and feels very forced.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is not at all what I expected. After the official confirmation that it was the eighth adventure saga , maintained the illusion of seeing the world of Harry Potter from another perspective, meet characters with interesting stories to tell and see how it had affected the over time Harry, Ron, Hermione and company.
And none of this happens: we go through times, situations and scenarios already visited, the few new characters are flat and uninteresting and the vast majority of the squad protagonist has not changed one iota: Hermione is still responsible and effective, is immature and goofy Ron and Ginny exudes tenderness and understanding. Harry and Draco are the only ones in which, to some extent, certain evolution is sensed.
Forget also to find new creatures, gadgets, events or traditions ; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child no room for the slightest novelty, everything has a huge self-referential weight and desire to pay homage to the adventures lived so far, sacrificing verisimilitude, depth and richness on the road noticeable.
Lack of ideas, commercial pressure or coauthored result? In this sense, the short story on Ilvermorny , the magic school US, JK Rowling published a few weeks ago is a look much more effective to that magical world more beyond the protagonist trio met in 1999.
While reading, I could not shake the feeling that everything had been written, from the first minute, intending to go back and revisit what has already been counted the easiest and least ocurrente possible, exploiting and visiting all the theories and popular speculation among readers.
and in such a rich and attractive universe, give back to create something fresh and unseen so far, taking advantage of that blank canvas so attractive, it seems a glaring and inexplicable error. Everything feels out of a bad and improvised fanfiction .
However, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has some value and worth reading for the simple fact of meeting again with all that began nearly twenty years ago.
beyond, is far from being an adventure lived up to expectations and, much less, a new closing comparable to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The wait is not worth it.
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