My official rating is somewhere between a 3.5-3.75*. 
 The first thing I want to say is that I loved being back in the Harry Potter world and seeing some of the characters as adults. I definitely missed the Harry, Ron, Hermione crew and loved seeing Malfoy in a new light. We started to see Malfoy's new light in the last several books of the series, but it was good to see what those changes brought about in his future. 
 This extension of the original Harry Potter series was interesting and great I still want more Harry Potter world! I want more of Harry Potter's children; I know J.K. Rowling doesn't plan to make anything else, but I wouldn't be at all upset if she were to continue on. 
 That being said, I did have some issues with this "book" - otherwise I would have given it 5 stars like pretty much every other Harry Potter book that I have read. First off, I would have loved this sooo much more as a novel. I would love to see how this is performed on stage because I just can't really visualize how they are going to be able to change scenes as often as they do in this play. Some scenes are only a few pages and I can't imagine having to create all the scenery for this production! This would be awesomely crazy to see performed. That said, I'm not sure that I liked reading about all these scene changes in play format. I kept trying to imagine people performing this on stage and couldn't see certain things happening (like the constant scene changes). I know Rowling wrote this specifically to be a play, but there were things that were a little too problematic for me with this as a play. In novel format I could have "believed" in the story a little more fully than I was able to believe in it as a play/script form. 
 Another issue I had was with some of the dialogue itself. There were some parts that felt a little to scripted for me. I loved the use of Ron to be the comedic relief in some spots, but there were some parts that felt a little unbelievable. Nobody uses certain words/sentence structures in real life and I think because I was imagining this performed on stage with real people reenacting what I would think of as "real life modeled conversations" that exacerbated this idea in my head. I don't really want to go back in a find a specific spot, but there were words that were used that I thought to myself, 'hmmm, a person of 14 years old (Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy) probably wouldn't use that word/phrase in real life' or 'hmmm, no one would formulate a sentence like that in real life conversation'. Those thoughts kept me from getting myself completely immersed in the story and believing in it. 
 I loved being re-introduced to characters we haven't seen in a while (Amos Diggory, Professor McGonagall, and Moaning Myrtle to name a few) and some we had never met before (Delphi and the children of our old heros). The new prophecy was really interesting to see as well. I just wish we could have spent a little more time with certain parts of this plot to learn more and see more about them (the Ministry of Magic and the prophecy for example). This plot moved so quickly and covered quite a span of time (both in the initial plot of roughly 4 years and the subplot of going back in time) and spending more time and getting more descriptions would have been nice. I realize this means that it would have needed to be a novel, and yes, that is what I preferred. Thankfully I went in knowing this was in script/play format (I didn't know this at first) and so had lowered my expectations because of this. I think if I had gone in thinking I was going to be receiving a novel, I would have rated this story lower than what I currently have. 
 Overall though, I loved getting to go back into the world of Harry Potter and loved seeing my old favorites grown up with new sets of problems to overcome. I still want Rowling to write more in this world though. Something is always better than nothing when it comes to Harry Potter so thank you Rowling! These characters felt so real to me again and I am going to miss them all over again... until I decide that I need to re-read books 1-7.