Wow, you're a hateful little thing. JKR had virtually no control over how Steve Kloves wrote the screenplays. She hates the movies. Don't blame her for what Kloves wrote. And if you think that the Cursed Child characters are OOC, then you either don't remember the books or never understood the characters. They're entirely in character.

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*clapping her hands* So where do I even start??

JKR never said she hated the movies. She even said in several interviews that she was satisfied with them, actually. She was THRILLED that Steve Kloves’ favourite character was Hermione, because she wanted Hermione to be represented well *snort*. Maybe she had no control over how he wrote the screenplays but she certainly didn’t complain about his writing. Unless you can peek inside JKR’s mind or can give me factual proof, the official version is that she likes the movies.

Now, for Cursed Child. Oh my god, hohohoho… You’re asking ME this question? When one of my hobbies is to overanalyze fictional character’s psychologies? Do you have any idea what you’ve just done?

I summon my fellow Hufflepuffs. Does Cedric Diggory, noble, clever, fair-play, strikes you as someone who would become a Death Eater out of spite because he lost a tournament?The same Cedric Diggory who wanted to replay the Quidditch match when Dementors swarmed the pitch and caused Harry to faint as he was chasing the Snitch? The same Cedric Diggory who wanted the victory to go to Hogwarts? The Cedric Diggory who gave Harry the solution to the golden egg’s riddle to repay him for the dragon’s warning? That Cedric Diggory?

Now for the Dark Lord’s minions out there. Would Voldemort, the man who wanted to rule over Wizarding Britain forevermore, who was delighted to have triumphed over Death, who thought he had achieved immortality, who was cold and incapable of loving, seems like someone who would need - or want - a child?What would Voldemort do with a child? How could he even have a child? His body is made of a decayed foetus, a bone of his father, Pettigrew’s hand and Harry’s blood. The body that comes out is pale, gaunt, misses a nose, and has the bare minimum of flesh on it. How does that translate into “fully functionning and ready to perform genitalia”?

Ron. Ron, my sweetheart. Ron, who was dosed heavily with love potion and almost died as a result when he drank mead soon after he was cured of it; Ron, who left because he was terrified for his family’s safety, returned because Harry and Hermione were also his family, because it was the right thing to do; Ron, a pureblood wizard whose childhood bathed in the aftermath of a war, who fought a war of his own, and became a fully-trained Auror; Ron, so protective and loving and capable, who Disarmed Bellatrix Lestrange, who duelled Fenrir Greyback, faced no less than three Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries and walked away alive…Ron, giving his beloved nephew a love potion? Ron, forgetting his nephew so he can go eat? Ron, holding his wand from the wrong end? Ron, fighting because “everyone was doing the same” and not because it was what he believed in?

Hermione, who crafted Polyjuice in her second year, who knows a ridiculous array of spells, who can recite textbooks word for word, forgetting the ingredients of Polyjuice? Using a ridiculously basic spell to lock away an artefact that can literally alter the past?

Harry, Harry who despised Uncle Vernon, Harry, who deeply admired Arthur Weasley, Harry who gets angry but regrets it, Harry who was never afraid of anything but Dementors, Voldemort and Umbridge’s blood quill, suddenly shouting “You’re no son of mine” and having five hundred phobias slapped onto him because… because?

And Malfoy. Malfoy who was a child, granted, but was really damn chuffed to join the Death Eaters and to kill people and almost managed to kill people because as long as he doesn’t have to see them die, it’s alright? Malfoy who spent his childhood being a spoilt, pampered brat and believed he deserved every second of it? Malfoy who in the end never showed any remorse and whose only hint at “““redemption”““ is a vague curt nod of the head 19 years later? Malfoy suddenly becomes A Super Great Dad And Very Very Sorry For All He’s Done In The Past?

I think you’re the one who needs to reread the books.

I may be a hateful little thing but I’m a hateful little thing with facts.