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Book Hype Podcast

Episode #116: Engorgio! A ‘Cursed Child’ Review

Hosted by Jen, Karen, Kristen, and Brittany

August 30, 2016

Book Hype hosts Jen, Karen, Kristen, and Brittany don their house colors to talk all things Harry Potter and the Cursed Child!

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What we’re reading:
Mai-Tai’d Up by Alice Clayton
Built and Charged by Jay Crownover
Irresistibly Yours and I Wish You Were Mine by Lauren Layne
The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro
View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman

Book Bites: Favorite TriWizard Tournament Task
-First, second, or third?

Don’t delay, let’s discuss the PLAY!
-Some background on the writers, the playwright, and the context
-Three of us have read it and one of us has seen it!
-What do we think?
-A majority of us are not on board with it being Book Eight
-What do we take into consideration for canon?
-We are in a weird place to be with a play introduced to a strictly book medium
-Superb staging secrets! (But not too many.)
-Let’s talk about our adult friends, Harry, Ron and Hermione
-We have a lot of problems with Ron
-But we’re happy Ron and Hermione are still the OTP of the fandom
-SCORPIUS (heart eyes)
-Rose was… forgettable?
-Amos Diggory left us feeling a bit off
-Time turners are our friends? Not really
-Delphine — love her or hate her?
-Voldemort has a kid and we’re not really into it
-Engorgio!
-The moment we’ve all been waiting for — Scorbus
-The big canon issue
-This is not directly from JK Rowling, but it is JK approved
-Honestly, we did cry

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