harry potter and the cursed child book review

The plan fails, and the disguises cause Hermione to become suspicious of Viktor Krum, a Durmstrang student, and go to the Yule Ball with Ron instead. The two disguise themselves as Durmstrang students in an attempt to sabotage Cedric to prevent his victory. Knowing that Cedric’s death was the result of him winning the Triwizard Tournament alongside Harry, the boys use the Time-Turner to travel back to the first tournament challenge in 1995. The two escape from the Hogwarts Express to visit Amos, and they team up with Delphi to steal the Time-Turner from Hermione’s office, in the Ministry of Magic, while disguised with Polyjuice Potion. After overhearing Harry refuse to help the Diggorys, Albus is inspired to do so and convinces Scorpius to help him.

Simultaneously, Harry’s scar starts hurting again, causing him to become concerned that Voldemort may be returning. Amos Diggory, who has become old and is cared for by his niece, Delphi, asks Harry to use the Time-Turner to prevent the death of his son, Cedric. Harry obtains a prototype of a more powerful version of the Time-Turner that allows one to travel into the past and change history. During the fight, Harry angrily says that he sometimes wishes Albus was not his son, and Albus spills the potion on the blanket.

Prior to his fourth year, Albus gets into a fight with his father after being given the latter’s baby blanket and a love potion from Ron. Albus also drifts apart from Rose, with whom he was close before meeting Scorpius. Albus and Harry drift apart due to Albus’s struggles with his father’s shadow and Harry’s uncertainty on how to deal with his son’s problems. Scorpius’s mother then passes away due to a fatal disease. The school is stunned when, in a break with the tradition of Potters being sorted into Gryffindor, Albus is sorted into Slytherin alongside Scorpius.īoth boys are bullied by other students over the next few years, Albus due to his perceived failure to live up to his parents, Scorpius due to unproven rumours that he is the son of Lord Voldemort. Unlike his father, Scorpius is very polite and very nerdy. On his first trip aboard the Hogwarts Express, Albus forms an unlikely friendship with Scorpius Malfoy, the son of Harry’s former nemesis Draco and his wife Astoria (née Greengrass). Hermione is now Minister of Magic, while Ron manages Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley.

Harry works a desk job as the Head of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic, while Ginny is the editor of the sports section of The Daily Prophet. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also send their daughter Rose on the train. In the opening scene, set during the epilogue of Deathly Hallows in the year 2017, Harry and Ginny Potter send their son, Albus Severus, on the Hogwarts Express to begin his first year at Hogwarts.

Harry potter and the cursed child book review