It pains me to give a book with the title "Harry Potter and the..." only one star, but this play was utterly terrible. The characters said and did things that they never would have said or done in the books. For true HP fans, some of the dialogue was just embarrassing. Small changes are tolerable, but when a writer changes the essence of characters that we grew up with, loved, and definitely quoted, the result is disappointing. I wanted to like this play, but I hate to say that I couldn't wait to finish this book just so the nightmare could be over. JK Rowling, it goes without saying that you are still and will always be one of my favorite writers of all time and I truly believe that you can do no wrong.