'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' lets down women and betrays Hermione's legacy
Whether you loved Harry Potter and the Cursed Child or wanted to stab it with a basilisk fang, it's obvious right off the bat the tale is **t really J.K. Rowling's. It says so right on the cover. Playwright Jack Thorne was the man primarily entrusted with showing us a glimpse into Harry Potter’s future. Instead, by deflating and devaluing every female character, he blasted Harry 70 years into the past. *
Reading Cursed Child casts the complexity and diversity of Rowling’s original characters into high relief. Jo gave us brainy women, sporty women, delusional women, motherly women, women who only talked about Nargles, women who were also ghosts — the list goes on. They all seemed real, **t because Rowling was trying to jam a message down our throats, but because she gave us a full world and women, you k**w, happen to be an equal part of it. As the pages of Cursed Child flip by, however, these full, complete women we k**w so well start to fade. They become two-dimensional shadows of their former selves who only store feelings or opinions that help to facilitate our male heroes’ (Harry Potter and his second son Albus) emotional journey. Read more...
08-17-2016, 08:50 PM
'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' lets down women and betrays Hermione's legacy
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