![]() ![]() It’s really unfair to share too many opinions before we’ve seen Part 2, but what we can do is give a few teasers of how the world looks 19-ish years later. That said: Several Hypable staffers attended the first preview performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Part 1 on Thursday night in London. Lots of Harry Potter fans want to find this stuff out on their own. We understand some fans want to know a bit about what happened (hence this article, which reveals a minor plot twist), but we urge you to keep your discussions to closed groups. Just a few hours after the first performance, it’s already becoming apparent that Cursed Child spoilers are unavoidable. SPOILER ALERT FOR HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD. She’s even coined hashtags: #KeepTheSecrets and #Don’tBeWormtail, a reference to a traitorous character. Previews began Tuesday night, and Rowling, always an active social-media presence, has posted a video and tweets imploring viewers not to reveal any plot details online. Five years after the last Potter film and nine years after the last Potter book, Rowling’s saga is picking back up on stage in London with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two. Harry Potter, the most influential all-original storytelling phenomenon of the new millennium, continues to be on the vanguard of this etiquette evolution. Start a separate thread. Basically: Show some courtesy to others. Don’t put surprising information in headlines. If you’re going to talk about soon-to-air or recently aired (or published) twists, warn people beforehand. By now, a pretty sturdy-if imperfect-code of conduct has developed. This was a moment of savagery that society had to live through in order to get somewhere more civilized. There hasn’t been quite as mass a spoiling as “Snape Kills Dumbledore” since 2005, though there has been anguished debate over how exactly fans and critics should go about discussing, say, Game of Thrones book developments that have yet to air on TV. Someone took out a billboard with the offending information, and The Onion later sent up the whole mess with the headline “Final Harry Potter Book Blasted For Containing Spoilers.” On the night of the book’s release, some trolls drove around to the Barnes & Noble shops where fans had lined up in costume and shouted-here’s my spoiler warning!- “Snape kills Dumbledore!” The wails of the suddenly sullied masses were recorded in videos uploaded, as such things were in those days, to eBaumsworld. Online, images of the page revealing that twist went viral prior to publication. Rowling’s ongoing saga of Muggles and magic. That year saw the release of the sixth Harry Potter book, which contained the most shocking twist to date in J.K. The Loss at the Heart of Guy Fieri’s Entertainment Empire Megan Garber ![]()
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