No more Harry Potter stories from J.K. Rowling

[robkelk]

CBC News: "Harry Potter is done now," confirms J.K. Rowling

Speaking at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, J.K. Rowling confirmed that the play is the final Harry Potter story.

(Unless she changes her mind, of course.)

So... Bob, the franchise is done; you can start writing this Step now.

[Bob Schroeck]

Ha!

I'm just waiting on my copy of Cursed Child. It should arrive any day now.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Jorlem]

robkelk wrote:

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So... Bob, the franchise is done; you can start writing this Step now.

That's not what she said.  She said Harry is done now.  Remember what's coming this November?  It's Newt Scamander's time to shine!
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

[DHBirr]

So we won't have Harry Potter to kick around anymore?
(How many adults today lack the historical knowledge to grasp what I'm hinting?  Let me make one thing perfectly clear....)
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Bob Schroeck]

Ha!

And my copy of Cursed Child is now on its way.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[robkelk]

Let me make one thing perfectly clear....)

... I am not a Death Eater.

(That should tell you without spilling the beans... for 18½ minutes, at least.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Foxboy]

We kept that Grim. And we're calling him Snuffles Padfoot.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

[Dartz]

What the [expletive deleted]?
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[Bob Schroeck]

I got my copy of Cursed Child a day earlier expected, and am about sixty pages into it. And my initial reaction is... This is real? This is not a hoax? Parts of this read like bad fanfic. The parts that don't... well, they don't feel much like Rowling.

I can only imagine it stages far better than it reads.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Mamorien]

I checked my copy, and "about sixty pages into it" would put you in Act One, around Scene Thirteen or so. Did you notice that Rita Skeeter's reporting on the 2014 Quidditch World Cup prefigured two key plot elements?

Reviews indicate that it does indeed stage magnificently, and while I might quibble about the "bad" adjective, I have to admit it reads like fanfic, right down to the ridonkulous OC [see spoiler]. In its defence, as I understand it, Jack Thorne was the main writer, not Rowling, so it's arguably profic.

Spoiler

Well, she is. Delphi even wears her hair in Ravenclaw colors, as we learn near the end of Act Three.

[Labster]

Ars Technica[/url]It may feel a little bit like fan fiction, but it's really good fan fiction.

I guess the world is pretty much in agreement on that point, just a question on how good it is.  Also that link has spoilers, for those of you who (don't) want to see them.
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