The best Quotes from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

The best Quotes from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a play written by Jack Thorne, based on an original story written by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Thorne. The story is set nineteen years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It follows Harry Potter, now Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic, and his son, Albus Severus Potter, who is about to attend his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Rowling has referred to the play as "the eighth Harry Potter story".

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Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

Albus Dumbledore

14

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.

Albus Dumbledore

14

You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.

Albus Dumbledore

6

You - the three of you - you shone you know? You liked each other. You had fun. I envied you those friendships more than anything else.

Draco Malfoy

6

They were great men, with huge flaws, and you know what – those flaws almost made them greater.

Harry James Potter

4

Hermione: "I'm sorry, Severus."
Snape looks at her, and then swallows the pain. He indicates Ron with a flick of his head. "Well, at least I'm not married to him."

Severus Snape

2

Draco: "I always envied you them, you know - Weasley and Granger. I had -"
Ginny: "Crabbe and Goyle."
Draco: "Two lunks who wouldn't know one end of a broomstick from another."

Draco Malfoy

2

I'm being bossed around by Hermione Granger. And I'm mildly enjoying it.

Draco Malfoy

2

Hermione Granger

So you’re telling me that the whole of history rests on... Neville Longbottom? This is pretty wild.

Ron Weasley

2

Neville Longbottom

Ron: "You've said some very unfair things to and about my wife..."
Hermione: "And your wife doesn't need you fighting her battles for her."

Hermione Granger

1

Scorpius: "A doe? Lily's Patronus."
Snape: "Strange, isn't it? What comes from within."

Severus Snape

1

Scorpius Malfoy

Hogwarts isn't actually that pleasant a place when you don't fit in.

Albus Severus Potter

1

It is exceptionally lonely, being Draco Malfoy. I will always be suspected. There is no escaping the past.

Draco Malfoy

1

Love blinds. We have both tried to give our sons, not what they needed, but what we needed. We’ve been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we’ve blighted their present.

Harry James Potter

1

I've never fought alone, you see. And I never will.

Harry James Potter

Scorpius: "I asked out Rose Granger-Weasley."
Albus: "And she said no."
Scorpius: "But I asked her. I planted the acorn. The acorn that will grow into our eventual marriage."
Albus: "You are aware that you're an utter fantasist."

Albus Severus Potter

Rose Granger-Weasley

People say parenting is the hardest job in the world - they're wrong - growing up is. We all just forget how hard it was.

How many people have died for the Boy Who Lived?

Amos Diggory

The rumor is that he's Voldemort's son, Albus. It's probably rubbish. I mean... look, you've got a nose.

Rose Granger-Weasley

Voldemort wanted you! Not my son! You told me yourself, the words he said were "kill the spare". The spare. My son, my beautiful son, was a spare.

Amos Diggory

It took me a long time to discover your weakness, Albus Potter. I thought it was pride, I thought it was the need to impress your father, but then I realised your weakness was the same as your father's - friendship.

Green is a soothing color, isn't it? I mean Gryffindor rooms are all well and good but the trouble with red is - it is said to send you a little mad - not that I'm casting aspersions...

Albus Severus Potter

Scorpius: "If I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal darkness with, I'd choose you."
Albus: "No offense, but I'd choose someone massive and really good at magic."

Albus Severus Potter

Delphi: "What have you done?"
Scorpius: "I, uh, I opened a book. Something which has - in all my years on this planet - never been a particularly dangerous activity."

Scorpius Malfoy

It's tough to live with people stuck in the past, isn't it?

After I came out of hospital - everyone ignored me, shut me out - other than, that is, the boy who had everything - who came across the Gryffindor common room and challenged me to a game of Exploding Snap. People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are - have always been - heroic in really quiet ways

Ginny Weasley

Harry James Potter

Okay, whatever was holding your brain together seems to have snapped.

There's a silence. A perfect, profound silence. One that sits low, twists a bit, and has damage within it.

I've done this job for centuries
On every student's head I've sat
Of thoughts I take inventories
For I'm the famous Sorting Hat

I've sorted high, I've sorted low,
I've done the job through thick and thin
So put me on and you will know
Which House you should be in

Sorting Hat

At this precise moment in time, I take no pleasure in being right.

Myrtle Elizabeth Warren - a pretty name - my name - no need for the "moaning".

Moaning Myrtle

Are you crawling away from me? Harry Potter. Hero of the wizarding world. Crawling away like a rat.

A memorial? I am not interested in a memorial - not anymore. I am an old man - an old dying man - and I am here to ask you - beg you - to help me get him back.

Amos Diggory

Delphi: "Then kill me."
Harry: "I can't do that either."
Albus: "What? Dad? She's dangerous."
Harry: "No, Albus."
Albus: "But she's a murderer- I've seen her murder-"
Harry: "Yes, Albus, she's a murdurer, and we're not."
Hermione: "We have to be better than them."
Ron: "Yeah, it's annoying but it's what we learnt."

Ron Weasley

The Malfoys. The family you can always rely on to make the world a murkier place.

When spares are spared,
when time is turned,
when unseen children murder their fathers:
Then will the Dark Lord return.

Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace - a palace of love.

Scorpius Malfoy

Mercy & Compassion

Thank you for being my light in the darkness.

Scorpius Malfoy

The lesson even your father sometimes failed to heed is that bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. Always think. Think what's possible.

Minerva McGonagall

Harry James Potter Albus Severus Potter

I am the new past. I am the new future. I am the answer this world has been looking for.

That's the thing, isn't it? About friendships. You don't know what he needs. You only know he needs it.

I will rebirth the Dark. I will bring my father back.

I shouldn't have survived - it was my destiny to die - even Dumbledore thought so - and yet i lived. I beat Voldemort. All these people - all these people - my parents, Fred, the Fallen Fifty - and it's me that gets to live? How is that? All this damage - and it's my fault.

Harry James Potter

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