I didn't like it if I'm going to be completely honest. It read like a bad fanfiction to me... I had so many problems with the way the characters acted, their personality shifts, and such other things. It just seemed very un-canon.

// Hope I can partake soon fingers crossed for super early delivery

Voldemort had a daughter

Then the fucking thing about Cedric turning into a death eater just because he was humiliated? I call major bullshit on that. Cedric was a fluff ball, he would have never done such a thing regardless of how humiliated he got.

BAD.

I'm a little sad that it was such a quick read. I know, I know... play format and all that. I somehow still wished it would have been longer.

Albus's angst in the first act is RIDICULOUS. Man, if we thought Harry's was bad... ahahaha nothing beats this kid. Though I guess he probably got it from his dad.

I really feel like Harry shouldn't have been Head of Magical Law Enforcement. It doesn't seem like his cup of tea.

... WHERE ARE JAMES AND LILY FOR THIS WHOLE THING? Seriously, even when their BROTHER IS COMPLETELY MISSING, they are nowhere to be found. Their cousins are no where to be found. We don't even see Hugo for the entire play.

My heart hurt at seeing Snape again. And then watching him die all over again. I love that even though things went badly in the AU, he still stayed against Voldemort, even if secretly.

You can tell JKR didn't have a huge hand in this. Either that or she is just turning into one of those people who are in it because it's still such a huge cash cow. This didn't seem like her work at all. I feel like the other writers saw A Very Potter Sequel and mashed it with the epilogue and wanted to get their Dramione jollies out through their kids, then threw in a "child of Voldemort" OC (which is an amateur move that I did WHEN I WAS THIRTEEN).

I love that in every AU, Ron and Hermione were still drawn to each other. It bothers me how deflated and non-Ron he was when married to Padma. I hate how non-Hermione she was when he was married to Padma. I can't realistically believe that they would be so different because of it.

And I can't realistically believe that something so stupid as having been sabotaged to engorge would humiliate Cedric to the point that he would be fundamentally different to his core. To make him a murderer.

Yeah, so I'm definitely not alone in thinking that Delphi is complete bullshit. I'm really tempted to go back through the last book and write out a timeline to prove that it WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE. But I'm afraid to find out it would be. xD I always did find it a bit weird that we never see Bellatrix outside of Malfoy Manor...

And I've never really seen Voldemort to really even be the type of person who would be interested in having an heir. He was convinced he would never die... he wouldn't have a reason for it.

Plus I always saw him as being asexual personally.

here, read this quote from a fan theory that makes sense

What is it with the ending.... it sounds like they get to the last scene, and get told "you now have 5 seconds to wrap everything up". Worst - ending - ever :P

I do like some of the 'filler' we're given (like Hagrid at Godric's Hollow), but unless I skimmed it (I naturally speed read so I do sometimes miss small details the first time I read something), what did the Sorting Hat see in Albus that made him go into Slytherin in the first place? And like said, how come Scorpius was Slytherin, given the way he acts?

And Death Eater Cedric? I definitely don't buy that - there's nothing in Cedric's character in the fourth book that'd leave me to believe that was even remotely possible.

I'm not convinced that Voldemort would've had a child.... ok maybe Bellatrix wanted one with him, but for him to actually do that? Nope, that doesn't fit with his character. And does anyone else think the only reason it was a daughter was just to get the main characters' genders balancing out (or is that just me being unkind?)?

It does sound like fanfiction - when I wrote a fanfic and had someone claim "James would never say that". JKR's characters should be able to stay in character, especially if she had as much input as it seems.

But that's just about the looks.

For the story, I agree with most of you. There are scenes where you would like to know more details. Yes, I know, it's a play, but we only got to read about Rose, Scorpius and Albus being sorted? It was kinda clear for Rose and Scorpius where they gonna end up, but with Albus' sorting, I expected a discussion like Harry had, the hat itself ponders about which house would suit him best. And don't get me started on that flying lesson where I felt like left out in the rain. This couldn't be all of it. What I don't get is how the students are so overhyped about a Potter being in their year - and then he gets sorted into Slytherin and they do their best to let him know he's really the spare one, unworthy of the family name. I know kids can be cruel, but it feels unlikely to treat Harry Potter's son this way. If I remember correctly, Albus did nothing wrong to be disliked so much. I'm not even sure if he was liked in his house, except for Scorpius.

For Scorpius, I just got to say that he's my favourite character from this book. His geekyness, which compares a lot to Hermione's, is a really nice trait. His character simply felt 'true to the heart' to me.

That Amos showed up again, still mourning about his son, was kind of annoying to me. I never liked Amos in the books and now, in Cursed Child, he acts as if he was the only one who lost a dear person for - let me call it 'the greater good' (with Harry winning the war, but innocent lives were taken as well).

I'm still astonished Voldemort managed to have a child. I always thought he had become so artificial that things like this would not work anymore.

In conclusion, the whole story mostly reads like a fanfic some teenager scrambled together. But since it's Harry Potter, I still somehow enjoyed reading it - not sure if this would be the case if it was a completely different fandom/setting.