![]() ![]() After time-traveling, Harry realizes that he is that wizard, and casts the patronus himself. Before Harry goes back, for instance, a mysterious wizard casts a patronus to save him from some dementors. This all happens in a single loop: Harry and Hermione don’t alter the future so much as ensure that the past all goes in the right order. Still, at the end of the book, Hermione breaks the rules, going back in time to save Sirius Black and Buckbeak. Consider Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Hermione’s Time-Turner only allows her to go back in time for a few hours, and she only uses it to take more classes. In trying to fix that by traveling back to the second stage of the tournament and embarrassing Cedric, they create an even worse future where Voldemort wins.īy depicting this kind of time travel, Cursed Child deviates from the model used in the Potter books, where time travel operates within a closed loop instead of generating alternate timelines. When they disarm Cedric during the tournament, they also rejigger Ron and Hermione’s romantic history, making Ron end up with Padma Patil and erasing poor Rose Granger-Weasley from existence. Much in the style of Back to the Future, Albus and Scorpius’s actions in the past radically alter the future. In the play, our main travelers are Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy, who jump back in time to the Triwizard Tournament in order to save Cedric Diggory from his untimely death, which happened near the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In the books, it all occurs in a single loop. It seems we’re dealing with two different theories of time travel: In the play, time travel creates alternate futures. And, as so often happens when time travel is involved, inconsistencies and questions have resulted. There’s a lot to discuss: Scorpius and Albus’s friendship, the fact that nearly every Potter adult works for the government (or runs a prank store), and the greatness of the Trolley Witch.īut above all, there is Cursed Child’s persistent use of time travel, thanks to the use of an uber-powerful Time-Turner (or pair of Time-Turners, technically) that can carry people years back in time. Now that the script of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been loosed upon the world, we can talk all we want about the mechanics of the new Potter play. Spoilers ahead for those who haven’ t finished Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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