The Cursed Child is an amazing new play written by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne. It is based upon a series by J.K. Rowling. The very first thing that you need to know about this play is that if you have not read the Harry Potter series first, you should not start on this one.
The Cursed Child takes place when Harry, Ron, and Hermione grow up and have kids. This is some background information: Harry is married to Ginny, and they have three kids- Albus Severus, James, and Lily. Ron has married Hermione and they have two kids- Hugo and Rose. Voldemort is dead in their world and things are running normally. Harry is the head of The Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Ginny is the editor of the sports pages of the Daily Prophet. Hermione is The Minister for Magic while Ron runs the joke shop Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes.
The Cursed Child is mainly about Albus, Harry’s son. He becomes Scorpius’s best friend. Scorpius Malfoy is Draco Malfoy’s son. Rumor has it that Draco and Astoria – Scorpio’s mom – couldn’t have a son. So they used a Time-Turner to send Astoria back in time. The rumor is that Scorpio is Voldemort’s son. The rumor is not true. So anyways, Albus is Scorpius’s best friend and when they go to Hogwarts, Albus gets sorted into Slytherin. Through the years, Albus gets teased a lot. He has father-son issues.
One night before he goes back to Hogwarts, Albus hears Amos Diggory tell his dad that he heard that the Ministry acquired a Time Turner and that Amos wants to bring Cedric Diggory back. Harry lies and denies the fact that they got a Time Turner at all. When Albus hears this, he gets mad. He wants to save Cedric Diggory. The next day on the Hogwarts Express, he runs away with Scorpio to go to Amos and tells Amos what he wants to do. Amos does not trust them at first, but his niece, Delphini Diggory (they call her Delphi) convinces him.
With Delphi, the two friends steal the Time Turner from Hermione’s office and go back in time to try to save Cedric Diggory. They try the first time and when they go back to their time, things have changed a lot, but Cedric is not saved. The second time when they try and come back, everything is disastrously wrong. After they fix everything and restore their own reality, they decide the Time Turner is too dangerous. They decide that they want to destroy it. They hand over the Time Turner to Delphi and start to discuss ways to destroy it.
Suddenly Scorpio starts having suspicions about Delphi. Why did she never go to Hogwarts? Why did she want to help them? Who was she really? Delphi just laughs and magically binds them. She tells them that she is going to restore the Dark Lord and that they were going to help her to do it. She also tells them that she has spent her whole life on this. She takes their wands and snaps them in half and then she takes them back in time to the third task of the Triwizard Tournament. They try to escape and she breaks the Time Turner.
So now Albus and Scorpio are on their own, stranded in time, and with no way to get back. They do not even have their wands. How will they get back? And who is Delphi really? Because now it is clear that she is not Amos Diggory’s niece. Why is Delphi so obsessed with getting Voldemort back? Reading the book will answer these questions and much more.
I really love this play. Even though I almost cried a couple times in the beginning. Reading this play I feel as if I am right there watching it happen and feeling what the characters feel. It is absolutely wonderful. One important thing I learned in this book is how, even if they are forced apart, the truest of friends will always find a way to be together.
So anyways, happy reading 😊
