[HPforGrownups] Re: Bellatrix and Rodolphus?

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No: HPFGUIDX 193278

I checked there's just one listed author, Jack Thorne.

Rowling is given partial credit for the "story" that the play is based on,
but not the play itself. I've looked a lot but I can't find a single
credible source giving her any actual author credit.

Everything I see just says:

>Based on an original story by JK Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne
>A new play by Jack Thorne

Or something else along those lines, with three people sharing story
credit, but only Jack Thorne as the author.

I would think this would make the play slightly less canon than the films.
The films are scripts written by others based off of stories where she has
full credit. This is a script written by others based on a story where she
only has partial credit.

And the fact that multiple interviews talk about Rowling only joining the
project after it was already in development seem to imply that this
definitely wasn't her idea.

The Cursed Child also has a ton of things that contradict canon, perhaps as
much as the movies.

And despite the marketing slogan about this being the "8th story", Rowling
herself has indicated that she does not consider it to be Book 8. She once
corrected someone on twitter who called it that, and several months after
the play opened she gave a speech at a special Lumos screening of the first
Fantastic Beasts film where she emphasized that there will never be an 8th
Harry Potter book.
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