** spoiler alert ** 
 It's funny how I was afraid I wouldn't like The Cursed Child because it was a script while at the end, it the thing that went quite well for me. 
 I don't feel like writing a review right now, to be honest I'm so disappointed I'd probably be harder than I ought to be and I'm truly heartbroken to feel like this about an Harry Potter story. 
 Where was my sweet sweetest baby boy (that's Harry btw, in case you wondered)? 
 The characterization was the absolute worst. Harry was never perfect, bless his dear heart, and I'm sure as hell he could be clueless about a lot of things, parenting included (even if he did have people to look up and parent him) but this is way out of character for the most forced parent/child drama I ever read. 
 They are many examples as how they ruined him, including being a controlling a-hole parent because of his "prejudices" about Scorpius being a danger to Albus and forbiding him to be friends when the whole frakking series showed us how Harry values friendship and, while he does have his own prejudices, being so open to so many "outcasts" of the wizarding world and him being one at some points. But sure let's judge a kid for nothing but some freaking rumors about Voldy's sex life or whatev. 
 It's such a joke, except it's far from funny because Harry James Potter deserves the whole world of fiction (and some more)! 
 The others we know, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Draco suffer from this too. We never knew Astoria and never will cause she had to die for Draco drama, y'know. Poor booboo. 
 It's mostly Albus and Scorpius's (useless) story and I can't say they left a good impression on me. I've seen people saying how much of a sweatheart Scorpius is, and I guess he is. But somehow it's not difficult for him to be with such awful characters around him. 
 The play didn't bring any Harry Potter magic to me and read like the worst fanfiction, which I guess it is, even if it's an "officially approved one". 
 My problem with it is that the play included pretty much everything I dislike reading fanfics and trust me, I've read more than my fair share! I love fanfics. 
 What is all good in fanfiction because you just have so many other choices, for everyone. 
 But as canon story goes, I just want to wipe The Cursed Child of my mind! 
 I just can't wrap my mind around how disappointed and magicless I feel, guys. 
 I don't understand how the life of Harry Potter full of hope and love turned out to be so bad. 
 Sure, prejudices run deep and it takes work to overcome it but showing us a world where Slytherins are still the devil spaws, while giving Draco the best dad award and turning Harry into the worst? 
 Because they somehow couldn't have Draco being "good" without Harry being the "bad guy". And when I say good, I mean Draco still accuses Harry of all his troubles (like pretty much everyone). This is so one dimentional. 
 People say it's bound to be better on stage, and I'm sure the actors are all very talented people, except I don't think even the best actors in the world can save a play so badly written and such a story. If the story's bad, it's bad and there is no way around it. 
 I don't blame the play /screenplay for it, but the text really. 
 How apparently Amos Diggory's a maniac accusing Harry of being the worst person to ever lived (ok I know he lost Cedric but still, for one thing it's so out of nowhere) and having Harry's kid believing it and going back in time to save one guy he never knew (instead members of his own family?! If I had to accept this go back in time mission, that would be it). Time travel on it's own arrfff it's rare I enjoy it and this was just a useless mess. 
 Having Bellatrix pregnant during the Malfoy manor period ? With Voldy's kid, because why not?! (If Voldemort ever had sex, I would imagine it was in his young years when he was still pretending to be Tom). Sure, let's contradict the canon again, no biggie. I'm sure Voldy loved to be on nappy duty! 
 And I can see when they tried to be funny: Ron is a clown. Let me tell you, I didn't smile once. 
 We barely see Rose, and she's almost as aweful as Albus. She's so prejudiced against slytherin and gives her cousin the very cold shoulder in the time it takes to say "quidditch", I guess that's how Hermione and Ron raised her. Totally coherent. 
 No James and Lily. Just that annoying brat Albus. 
 So many things put me off, it's insane! 
 Maybe it's just me taking this too seriously but I sure cannot fake enthousiasm for this book. Was the standard too high? Probably. But it's still one of the worst story I ever read (worst fanfics included). 
 Truly, this reads as a crack!fic, an Harry!Bashing, frustrated!Slytherin lover fic, it's as simple as that. 
 (Please note that I have nothing against Slytherin, but I'm talking about the people that think some Slytherin characters, like Draco/Albus, are misunderstood babies instead of reading them as the complex characters they are, and feel the need to draw other characters badly to "fix" it. And this how The Cursed Child reads to me). 
 But to sell this as the 8th Harry Potter story? 
 It's a shame. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME ON YOU.