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Guess What I Did Today

I saw Harry Potter and the Cursed Child...

and it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And that was even knowing the entire plot having bought and read the script book ages back when I thought it would never come to Australia and I would never get to see it.

There were lots of places where I cried. Because ANGST. And the acting was fabulous. By everybody. Especially Scorpius: so much spastically awkward body language, it was a joy to see. Soooooooo much more vivid to see it all. And the stagecraft, well, that was amazing. Seriously must have hired magicians to figure some of that stuff out.

AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!

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So envious! I wasn't impressed by the script as a piece of writing though I loved Scorpius, but I guessed it would be amazing to see.

Scorpius is love, especially after seeing the play. I did actually like the script itself when I read it, but hey, seeing it performed, oh, it just blew me away. ALL of the acting was so right. Harry was absolutely perfect as Harry, he was the Harriest Harry ever.

I had a bit of cognitive dissonance as they cast Hermione (and thus Rose) as persons-of-colour, but I suppose there wasn't any reason they couldn't do that -- even though Hermione was white in the movies, y'know, the physical descriptions of Hermione in the books focused on her hair... which was definitely frizzy and bushy, even MORE so with black actors than it would have been with white.

Draco was nicely nuanced. Snape was very Snape-y, yay. And the epic friendship between Scorpius and Albus-Severus was soooo... there were bits where they didn't say a word, but their body language said everything.

Breathtaking.

If it comes here I'm going, even if I have to fly (in a mundane plane).

A lot of fans think Hermione is black because it's very possible, and I can totally see it too with her frizzy hair. I've seen some gorgeous artwork around.

In my current book (the Clockwork Chimera SF series) everyone gets described but the main character Daisy and her sister, and I switch between seeing her as black (my default image of her) and maybe fair with a ponytail given the silhouette given at the start of each book. The author must have intended to keep us in the dark as the book covers only show a space-suited woman. It's annoying though as I like to have mental pictures.