10 Ways J.K. Rowling Has Ruined Harry Potter

10. Made The Cursed Child Canon

No matter how hardcore a Harry Potter fan you are or how much you loved the staged version of the play, it's likely you absolutely detest the plot.

So many things in the play are problematic and contradictory to the source material, like the fact that Harry is a terrible father who tells his kid he wishes he'd never been born because he's in Slytherin. The 19 Years Later section of Deathly Hallows very specifically told us Harry would support his son no matter what because of Snape's legacy, so this is ridiculously out-of-character.

There's also the fun stuff like breaking timeturner lore and Voldemort - the monster whose whole arc is that he's incapable of love - having a child with Bellatrix Lestrange. It reads like bad fanfiction, and the fact that J.K. Rowling had nothing to do with the actual writing of the script isn't hard to believe.

The problem is that the play has Rowling's blessing as canon to her books. Which is just wrong, and pretty much every Potter fan disregards Rowling's proclamation that it's a story from her head.

Still, this terrible story is canon to Rowling's universe, meaning all material going forward has to be viewed in light of The Cursed Child. Bummer.