Review: 
 Characters: Albus Severus Potter is about to attend his first year at Hogwarts. As we all know by now he's worried about the chance he's sorted into Slytherin House. After being soothed by his father, the famous Harry Potter, Albus is calmer, but he can't quite shake his nerves. As the years go by and father and son become more and more estranged, it'll take something big to bring them back together once more. Can I just say that Albus and Scorpius (Draco Malfoy's son) are so precious? That's not quite the word I wanted to use, but it'll have to do. I mean there are many times throughout this play that I wanted to just give them a hug and tell them that everything would be okay. I also really enjoyed that, without a ton of exposition as an ordinary novel would have, that we were able to get such a good sense of these characters' various traits and personalities. Then we have the legacy characters, namely Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Draco. It was such a treat to see these characters that we really only saw as kids and teens all grown up. These characters aren't perfect, they have flaws, harry especially isn't quite the best father, but he tries and his development with Albus is pretty enjoyable to read. 
 World Building: Part of me wants to say that coming back into the wizarding world would feel natural, like I never left and that this book fits in perfectly with the rest of the series despite it being a screenplay while the rest are novels, however, if I'm being honest there is a bit of a disconnect for me. I think it has to do with the fact that, one there's a lot of fan service, I mean much more than I expected by far, but also that there's a part of this story that feels a bit too much like I was reading fan fiction. I believe that since this is a screenplay and that we cannot actually experience Rowling's addictive writing style coupled with the fact that there's a ton of fan service that this story almost feels as though it's written by someone else entirely and not actually canon, even though it is. That being said, though, as a huge fan of this series I was delighted to see these fan service elements and there were some extremely emotional scenes that I won't get into because of spoilers, and it's fantastic to return to Hogwarts and the Wizarding World after all this time. 
 Predictability: I have to say that the predictability is really well done here. I don't know if it's because of the screenplay writing style or what but there was quite a lot that was hard to predict about this story. As with most stories, there were a few things that were actually fairly predictable, but on the whole, I was surprised at nearly every turn. There's a lot that goes down in this two part story and there are some rather mind-blowing moments, but I was happy to see that even the most shocking twist had some sort of rational or foreshadowing connection to it. 
 Ending: So I don't want to talk about this ending too much and risk spoiling it, but it's really awesome. The things that lead up to the final climax of the story were really entertaining and really well plotted out. It's interesting to see where, both emotionally and physically these characters end up, but the final battle I have to say is a stroke of pure genius. It's really easy to feel how action packed it is, and when the dust settles there's this really powerful scene that will give you feels. the story itself wraps up rather nicely there are still things I'd like to know, but they're all on a more big picture stage whereas all the things directly relating to this story are tied up really well. 
 Rating: 
 I know what you may be thinking, "Four stars, FOUR STARS!? How can you give a Harry Potter story four stars!?" Let me explain, with this not being your typical Potter story, and with, I repeat, the MASSIVE amounts of fan service, there was a relatively big part of this story that didn't feel real, that didn't feel canon. The story is great, and there's a part of me that loves the fan service bits, but the unreal feeling isn't something I can easily ignore.