Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Unresolved Questions. Warning: This post contains spoilers for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the new script- book by Jack Thorne, based on a story by himself, J. K. Rowling and John Tiffany, obviously differs from the original book series in that it is a play. This means a lot of things—less time for character development, a different sense of time passing, less description—which amount to a narrative that has less opportunity for the kind of rule- explaining and backstory- unpacking that Rowling mastered in the books. So at the end of the eighth story about the boy who lived, we have a few unresolved questions: 1.

Who is the cursed child? In the seven original Harry Potter books, the title formula includes a person (“the prisoner of Azkaban”) or thing (“the Deathly Hallows”) that is murky or unknown to Harry at the beginning of the plot and revealed by the end. But by the end of the script- book, it’s not entirely clear who the cursed child is. The main options seem to be Delphi, cursed by her parentage, or Albus, cursed by his—but some fans have suggested that it could also be Scorpius, cursed either by the rumor of his parentage, or by the curse that eventually killed his mother, Astoria. Or might it be Cedric Diggory, the boy whose death by the killing curse spurs the plot of the whole play? Or could it be Harry Potter himself, cursed as a father by his own unhappy childhood?

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We may have to wait for a J. K. Rowling tweet to find out. MORE1. 0 Ways Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Rewarded Longtime Fans. When did Bellatrix Lestrange give birth to Delphi? Mr. Popper`S Penguins Full Movie more. According to the stage directions, Delphi is a “twenty- something” when she first appears to Albus—twenty- two years after the Battle of Hogwarts. Since Bellatrix died in that battle, she has to have given birth earlier. One Redditor has speculated that Bellatrix probably gave birth sometime during Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince, pointing out that she wasn’t present when Snape killed Dumbledore.

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Earlier in that book, she also said something strange to the Malfoys as Draco prepares for his assignment: “If I had sons, I would be glad to give them up to the service of the Dark Lord!” Why would she say “sons” instead of “a son”? Watch Christmas In Wonderland Online Free HD. Perhaps because she’s pregnant and thinking about her future children.

Additionally, the Redditor points out, her pregnancy could be “why Voldemort insists on Bellatrix getting rid of Nymphadora and keeping her family tree pruned.”3. But how could Voldemort have a baby? Watch Carjacked Online. Was the Dark Lord human enough to conceive a child? We know he was incapable of love, though not necessarily sex, as Rowling hinted in a 2. But could there have been some other form of magical conception that would have allowed him to avoid the very human old- fashioned way? Again, waiting for a Rowling tweet on this one.

What’s going on with the Parseltongue and the burning scar? In Cursed Child, Harry feels his scar burning for the first time in two decades and finds that he can once again speak and understand Parseltongue. We know from the end of Deathly Hallows that his scar didn’t burn after Voldemort’s death, and it could be assumed that he would lose the ability to understand Parseltongue now that Voldemort was no longer a part of him, after he destroyed himself as a Horcrux—a fact Harry confirms in the play when he says, “How do I…? I haven’t been able to understand Parseltongue since Voldemort died.” So why can he understand it now, if he’s no longer a Horcrux?

The best explanation might be that the alternate realities created by Albus’s time travel mean that there are parallel universes where he does not destroy himself as a Horcrux, and therefore still has the skill. Where did Delphi’s prophecy come from? Delphi’s interference with Albus, and in effect the entire action of the play, stems from a prophecy: “When spares are spared, when time is turned, when unseen children murder their fathers: Then will the Dark Lord return.” She says Bellatrix’s husband Rodolphus Lestrange “revealed” it to her when he left Azkaban, but does that mean he prophesied it himself, or is simply repeating it from someone else? And why is he seemingly OK with his wife bearing Voldemort’s child? What is Delphi’s last name? Clearly “Diggory” was a front, so is she a Lestrange? A Voldemort? A Riddle?

MOREThe Magic Is Gone but Harry Potter Will Never Die. What’s the deal with Augureys?

Delphi has an Augurey tattooed on the back of her neck, and in the alternate reality where she helps Voldemort re- ascend to power, she’s his right- hand woman, dubbed The Augurey. So what are Augureys? As she explains, “They’re sinister- looking black birds that cry when rain’s coming. Wizards used to believe that the Augurey’s cry foretold death.” The Augurey (also known as the Irish Phoenix) is also described in the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Themas “a native of Britain and Ireland, though sometimes found elsewhere in northern Europe.

A thin and mournful- looking bird, somewhat like a small and underfed vulture in appearance, the Augurey is greenish black. It is intensely shy, nests in bramble and thorn, eats large insects and fairies, flies only in heavy rain and otherwise remains hidden in its tear- shaped nest.” Does this mean there could be an Augurey tie- in in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts movie?

We’ll have to wait until November to find out. Could there be more Time- Turners (and thus more Harry Potter stories)?

As the very existence of this script- book has proven, anything is possible. But at a book- release party on Saturday night in London, Rowling said there would be no more Harry stories. He goes on a very big journey during these two plays and then, yeah, I think we’re done. This is the next generation, you know … So, I’m thrilled to see it realized so beautifully but, no, Harry is done now.”But that doesn’t mean we might not get other stories from the Wizarding World—after all, the November release of the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them could bring new stories of other witches and wizards throughout history.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Play Review: London. The Palace Theatre in London’s West End has seen many hits over the years, Les Miserables among them. But surely nothing can compare to the hysteria surrounding its latest tenant, the eighth installment of the Harry Potter saga, titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Nine years after the final novel’s publication, J. K. Rowling’s most beloved characters are back in a two- part play created by Rowling, playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany. Anticipation has been feverish around the world; tickets are as hard to catch as a Golden Snitch, and producer Sonia Friedman has compared the endeavor to opening a Star Wars movie in a single cinema.

And yet there’s been little advance word on the ground since previews opened. Rowling and her acolytes have successfully convinced early viewers to keep silent about the play’s story. Call the auditorium a chamber of secrets. The uncharitable might surmise that this was to cover up negative word of mouth. After all, the creative team faced the daunting challenge of honoring the expectations of fans who can measure their childhoods by the Harry Potter novels while also offering a fully rounded work of drama, instead of a theme park ride to be franchised around the world. But the truth is that they have succeeded on both fronts. This enchantment will turn even the most doubting Muggles into true believers.

The story picks up where Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows left off. The middle- aged Harry and his wife Ginny are seeing their younger son Albus off from platform nine and three- quarters of King’s Cross Station, alongside married couple Ron and Hermione and their daughter Rose. But all is not well. Harry’s relationship with Albus is complicated. His son labors under the weight of his legacy and soon finds an unlikely soulmate in Scorpius Malfoy, himself struggling to shift a rumor that he is Lord Voldemort’s son.

The duo become a trio of outsiders with the arrival of the punkish Delphi, niece of an aging Amos Diggory. Amos is still grieving for his son Cedric, who lost his life competing with Harry in the infamous Triwizard tournament portrayed in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It’s the elder Diggory’s desire to rewrite history that sets in motion a chain of events that will spin the Wizarding World back into darkness. Cynics have suggested the decision to split the play into two parts rather than one smacks of commercial exploitation, echoing the way the final book was broken in two on screen. But Cursed Child could only be told over the five hours that splitting it into two allows. It’s a fiendishly complex narrative, and moves at a lick; the first two years of Albus’s time at Hogwarts are told in the first fifteen minutes. Considering each of the books covers the course of a single year, this marks a radical change of approach.

While many Potter fans might have preferred a new movie or a book, this is a story that feels made for the stage. Yes, it’s packed with effects as characters cast spells, fly and even transform, achieved through old school stagecraft rather than digital trickery. But Thorne and Tiffany also conjure up moments of intimate drama; it’s telling that the biggest gasp in Part One came not from a twist of the plot or a moment of magic but during a blazing argument between Harry and Albus where the father firmly crosses a line. In these scenes between father and son, Jamie Parker as Harry captures a sort of tortured celebrity anxiety, suggesting his concerns about Albus’s shortcomings are in part driven by ego, and in part an orphan’s struggle to connect with his child. Hermione and Ron (Noma Dumezweni and Paul Thornley) are afforded more opportunities by the narrative to have fun, and garner some of the biggest laughs of the plays. But Cursed Child is really about the next generation, and it’s the younger cast that steal the show, especially Sam Clemmett as Albus and Anthony Boyle as Scorpius.

The self- described pair of “losers” are recognizably human and distinct from their family traits; Clemmett captures the frustration of the delicate and troubled Albus, and Boyle is both hilarious and heartbreaking as his bumbling, devoted friend Scorpius, whose blond thatch is the only sign of his Malfoy heritage. Boyle’s scenes with father Draco, portrayed by Alex Price as a swaggering cockney, mirror those between Albus and Harry, and build to their own moving conclusion.

Just as Rowling’s novels captured some of the challenges and joys of growing up, this story is about the bond between parents and their children—appropriate, perhaps, now that the novels’ original readers are themselves becoming parents. By the time it ends, the mystery in its title—just who is the cursed child?—has some surprising answers, and suggests that the inevitability of pain is itself a curse we all must bear. One legacy of the Potter books is the way they turned a whole generation on to reading. Cursed Child will perform this same service for theatre, as Potter- mad millennials pack the stalls. For that alone it deserves the unending run it will surely now receive.