What Went Wrong With Harry Potter and the Cursed Child?

The latest installment in the Harry Potter franchise is getting some heavy flack. Here's a way too long explanation of why.
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[rymdalkis]

12 year old Scorpius is rumored to be the illegitimate child of Voldemort, who died 19 years ago? Gee, I wonder why nobody bought it

[socknightmare]

The whole book is cursed, not just the child.

[idoneakw]

The part I hate most is the fact they made Cedric diggory into a death eater even though the whole reason people loved his character was his moral decency and kindheartedness

[TheTexas]

I feel like J.K Rowling just found two bald dudes who had never heard of Harry Potter and asked them to write a Harry Potter book

[Renegadephotography]

Sorting Albus into Slitherin doesn't subvert expectations.

Sorting him into Hufflepuff, that would subvert expectations.

[margisama]

The worst sin of the story...the confirmation that someone actually had sex with Voldemorte X.x;;

[randomfandoms]

"He [Harry] marries Ginny. They live happily ever after. There is literally no way to move forward from this point."
-A Very Potter Sequel, which came out 6 years before Cursed Child did.

[crowbar_the_rogue]

In a nutshell: It's badly written fan-fic.

[matthewlayford]

Imagine naming your kid 'Scorpius' and they don't turn out to be a bad guy.

[ilumie]

I've read one fan theory that says harry potter and the cursed child never actually happend in the potterverse and it was all just an overblown attention hungry story written by rita skeeter inside the potterverse.

So JK Rowling if you ever feel like tweeting another random fact to add to the harry potter lore, here's my recommendation!

[Kryptnyt]

Broke: Plan to save Diggory
Woke: Plan to save Hedwig

[aduckwithayoutubechannel]

“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”
*Well ROWLING, that was a FUCKING LIE.*

[emilyharfst]

My biggest problems are 1) Harry being a horrible father made me feel gross and 2) Cedric becoming a death eater is so *wrong*

[sarahcollins]

Harry went through years of feeling unloved while living with the Dursley’s. There is NO WAY he would make his son feel the same way by telling him he wished he weren’t his son. That is one of my biggest issues with this story. The characters are not consistent with those developed in the original series.

[glassofmilk]

I refuse to believe Harry Potter, who spent the first 11 years of his life loveless and in a literal cupboard, would turn around and be a horrible father to his son. And I refuse to believe that Ginny Weasely, daughter of two parents who always cared for her and loved her and did their best, would let this happen.

[scremmy_draws]

the only things i liked from the cursed child:
•albus being a slytherin
•albus and scorpius being best friends
that has so much potential but goddamn did they fail at it

[banjobill]

The Cursed Child is a fine example of "quit while you're ahead"

[Soulcrusher]

It's been my fan theory for ages that this is actually a terribly written story by Rita Skeeter

[NinaNiterose]

_"Albus expects to hear cheers, but here's booze instead!"_
Everything is more entertaining with automatic subtitles, even Harry Potter videos! 😆

[harshvenigalla]

I will never ever consider Cursed Child as the said 8th story.