Seramose

Please pardon me If I jump through the timelines. I read it when it first came out and I am sure I will not recall everything in a perfect order. Here we go:

At first I want to say, I really didn't mind the theater script form in which the book was written. But nevertheless there where many things I DID mind very much.

Right from the start Harry is acting like a total prick towards his son (what was his horrible name again? Seriously why didn't Ginny have any say in the kids names?) who is friends with Dracos son Scorpious (or something like that), just because. That is TOTALLY out of character, for he actually knows you can find good friends almost anywhere. He even states it would be no big deal for him if he was in Slytherin, which I am sure Harry would know involve Slytherin friends. Then Harry just waltzes into Hogwarts and tells them:" Nahhh Slytherin is bad and my son will sleep in Gryffindor dorms from now on." Which the school just say "Mkay" to. Since when do parents get a say in that? I get its "Harry Potter" but still.. He realises he is making his sons life hell, right? Oh wait.. He doesn't which is *surprise* out of character. And still Ginny doesn't weight in..

Next Amos Diggory, who is not an unreasonable man, who would know that bringing his son back was not possible because it would screw up the timelines. Also it was so many years ago, he would probably have dealt with the fact what happened, like so many other persons.

The trolley witch gave me the SERIOUS creeps. Also I don't think Fred and George would ever have tried to leave the Hogwarts Express. Thats just stupid.

Then the most absurd thing yet. Voldemorts and Bellatrixes child. I mean WHAT!?Never, not in a BILLION Years would Voldemort have had sex. Na-aw! And Bellatrix sure as hell was not pregnant in the "Deathly Hallows". Just no.
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The general idea for the book maybe would have been good, but it really didn't fit the characters or the universe quite that much. And you could have played out the theme of a kid who felt underappreciated and feared he wouldn't live up to other peoples expectations much better in different circumstances.
The different timelines are ok to go through, but utterly pretty forgettable. I don't remember that much of them.
In the end I finished the book out of sheer stubborness and was very much dissapointed. I was really not up to J.K.s standard of writing and I wish I'd stopped reading before the epilogue in "the deathly hallows" because Epilogues are rarely any good.