ericadawn16 | My Review of Cursed Child, Part One (No Spoilers)

I'm only 14 pages into it so I'll just post my initial thoughts.

First of all, I'm not one of those people who feels she should have just stopped. For those of you who write either original or fanfiction, how easy is it to just...stop?
Obviously, your tastes change. You regret certain decisions you made. You cringe at characters but other characters...no, they're your babies and you never truly want to let them go. Over 15 years later, I still think about my Buffy fanfiction, my X-Files fanfiction...how would I write them now? What would I change?
And they're not even a fully original entity that I created alone so...yeah, I can't fault Rowling for not wanting to fully let her babies go when I definitely wouldn't.

So, my main worries about the Cured Child boiled down to two things:

1. Don't prove Cassie Claire right.
Some of you weren't in the online Harry Potter fandom in 2006.
There were things you missed that were awesome but it also means you missed Cassie Claire and that is for the best. One of my co-workers at the time argued with me one day. She told me how I was unfair to Draco, how Draco was a victim and just needed love. I asked for canon evidence. She gave me her laptop with a novel length fanfic written by Cassie Claire. You may have read the reworking of this epic fanfic which is now known as The Mortal Instruments series. In the original version, Draco was the sympathetic protagonist and as my co-worker was quick to point out, might have ended up with Harry. He didn't but my coworker was convinced he would and the work was very Drarry friendly without actual sex and stuff between them.

Draco was more sympathetic in Deathly Hallows but I don't want Claire proved right that he's just this tortured soul that could have been good and should have been paired with Harry.

I will also always be biased because when I pointed out how stuff in the fanfic was directly from Joss Whedon stuff, my co-worker shrugged like, "Everyone knows that. It's not a big deal."
To me, it was a big deal since Serenity had basically bombed and at this point, Joss Whedon was considered a has-been by many...yeah, 2006.

2. Don't do any stupid deaths.
The way I phrased it on another LJ was that I didn't want Albus to kill Ginny...most of you will probably get that reference.

Apart from that, I really had no expectations.

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i-llbedammned.livejournal.com

Draco was a spoiled brat. He wasn't evil, but he still wanted things dead for wounding his ego.

iibnf.livejournal.com

Rowling didn't write Cursed Child, though, as far as I'm aware. Did she have any input into it?

dm12.livejournal.com

She might not have written it, but her name is on the cover, and if that's the case, I'm sure she had some input & is most certainly getting some sort of licensing compensation.

My daughter didn't like the book, she said it used a device to change up her favorite book of the series. That said, she also said it's like fanfiction, because it changes things to what someone felt should have happened.

Also, a non-spoiler reviewer commented that this was meant to be a play and was written that way, rather than as prose. Plays (as anyone who has had to study Shakespeare in class knows) are meant to be seen, not studied to death as a mere text. Study them in context, in the way they were intended.

debris4spike

I never really got into the Potter series. Yes, it's hard to change authors.

I suppose sometimes it needs to finish and leave the rest to the imagination. Then you see the internet and all the fan-fics, so I am split with what I like (Will admit I read BtVS fanfic, but don't read the comics)