MixedUSA TodayCursed Child is, in many ways, a direct response to criticism, taking readers back to the great moments of the series while also spinning the Potterverse forward. In critiquing and potentially changing Harry’s past, the play justifies its own portrayal of his future. And while reading the script is an incomplete experience -- noticeably lacking the richness that acting and staging would add to a realized production and the familiar Rowling prose a novel would have contained -- it may capture just enough of the old Potter magic to please even the most skeptical fans.
