First, I blame this screenplay for a number of things, chief of which is that a short story I was working on has now morphed into a screenplay instead. Excuse me, rude. I don’t write screenplays, that’s very much outside of my comfort zone. But apparently, it’s a thing now.
Ahem. Back to the work. I know I’m late to the party and this came out ages ago, but life. I liked the concepts, even if I did have continual Star Trek thou shalt not mess with the space-time continuum! moments throughout the screenplay. Seriously, so many problems could be solved had the boys grown up watching TNG or even the most recent Trek movies and learned about chaos theory for going into the past.
As a parent, my heart ached for Albus. He’s so much like his father, befriending the child on the train that needs it most rather than befriending for prestige (remember, this is what caused the original Potter to reject Malfoy Senior’s friendship on the train as well, ‘the right kind of friend’ he was not). And yet Potter Sr. is blind to this connection between himself and his son. Ouch.
Screenplays. I’m not in the habit of reading them. Honestly, I’m not. But now I’m curious. A few years ago my partner bought me a book on writing screenplays and I sort of shoved it on the shelf and ignored it, because I was serious at the time about other things, but now, I’m curious. It’s going on the reading list for next month.
Anyway, three takeaways: (1) Watch Star Trek, boys, it solves space-time continuum issues in the magical universe too, (2) The parallels between Albus and his father are masterfully done, and the parallels between him and Severus gave me chills, and (3) Ew, it’s basically canon now that Voldemort slept with Bellatrix, where’s my brain bleach?