Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
We talked about how Harry is a bad dad for not letting Albus have sweets (peep the Symbols section), but Bustle writer Emma Lord puts the blame squarely on the Weasleys and their anti-Sweet agenda. "When you really squint, it all starts to make sense. The entirety of Cursed Child is not about repairing a crumbling father son relationship or the power of friendship, but rather to push the Weasleys' new anti-sugar agenda." We laughed so hard, we almost choked on our Toblerone. (Source)
The debut cast of the play in London featured different actors than we're used to in the three main roles. Jamie Parker plays Harry, Noma Dumezweni plays Hermione, and Paul Thornley plays Ron. Maybe in ten years Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint will reprise their roles on stage. We can dream, right? (Source)
Hermione met Hermione in July when film-Hermione Emma Watson met play-Hermione Noma Dumezweni. No Time-Turners required…and they didn't bust up the space-time continuum. (Source)
Because our real world is basically just like the alternate timeline where Harry dies and Voldemort lives, Noma Dumezweni had to put up with vicious racist harassment on Twitter after being cast as Hermione. Dumezweni held her head high, saying, "Every girl, every walk of life, every race, gets it: "How do we go into the world?" I want to go into the world the way she does. Am I brave enough to go through what she does?" (Source)
Paul Thornley, who plays Ron on stage, had to keep the plot a secret from his kids. If he really was Ron, he would trick them into believe it was a different story entirely. Or play a really nasty prank on them: take them to see the Spider-Man play instead. (Source)