I swear I've read a fanfiction like this before...bUT in all seriousness this could have been a lot worse and it could have been a bit better. I feel like its hard at times to see that Al and Scorp are 14 in the majority of the story but that may also come with the fact that this is supposed to be a play and the actors make it more clear for the viewer (?) to tell. In the beginning I really didn't like how Harry was characterized since it just felt different from the books but as a continued reading I realized that they never touched on just how abusive the Dursleys were to Harry and that it would change how Harry is as a parent since he never had a father to learn from (Sirius does not count in my opinion). Overall, Cursed Child was a pretty amazing book.