[HPforGrownups] Re: Bellatrix and Rodolphus?

[Karen Lewellen]

No: HPFGUIDX 193283

Actually you should read further as to who has full credit.
Here is what appears on my copy.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Special
Rehearsal Edition) John Tiffany Jack Thorne J. K. Rowling
BASED ON AN ORIGINAL NEW STORY BY
J. K. Rowling,   JOHN TIFFANY & JACK THORNE
Text © 2016 by Harry Potter Theatrical Productions Limited
Harry Potter Publishing and Theatrical rights © J. K. Rowling
So,  all the rights belong  to Rowling, which would not be the case if she 
were not considered  equal with Thorne here.
If Rowling did not consider the play to be partly hers, she would not hold 
the rights to  the work.    Granted I do not believe the screenplays  for 
the first  8 films were even published.  still, Rowling does not have a 
credit  on any of them.  Unlike the Fantastic beast films whose 
screenplays   are published just like Cursed Child.
Kare


On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Ibid 11962 ibid11962 at gmail.com [HPforGrownups] wrote:

> 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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