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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Review


*SPOILER ALERT*

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was an amazing book. Although the book wasn’t a book, it was a script. The entire book was as if you were reading a play. It was very difficult to keep up with what was going on without any description. The book was about Harry’s children; the oldest son named James, after his father; the middle son named Albus Severus, named after the headmaster at Hogwarts and one of the greatest professors; and the youngest daughter named Lily, after his mother. Albus and Harry don’t see eye to eye because James is the oldest and the model child, and Lily is the youngest and the girl. Albus always feels as if he has to compete for love and attention because he is not as good as his other siblings and is living in the shadow of his father. In the fourth book, The Goblet of Fire, a character named Cedric Diggory dies when he wins the Tri-Wizard Tournament when the trophy was a portal to a graveyard where he was killed by Voldemort. Cedric’s father was beyond hurt when his son died. Mr. Diggory hears that the Ministry of Magic has a time turner and because Harry works there, he goes and asks for Harry to bring his son back. Albus overhears this and wants to help Mr. Diggory bring his son back. He and his best friend Scorpius, who is Draco Malfoy’s son, find the time turner and travel into time to try and get Cedric back with the help of Mr. Diggory’s nurse who pretends to be Cedric’s cousin. Every time they go back in time, something goes wrong. In one dimension, Harry was killed by Voldemort and the world was run by the Malfoys and death eaters. When they finally get everything back to normal, the woman who pretended to be Cedric’s cousin reveals herself to be Voldemort’s daughter and keeps Scorpius and Albus stuck in a part of time by breaking the time turner. Albus and Scorpius find a way to get Harry to the time they were stuck in, defeat Voldemort’s daughter and return home. Everything ends well and the moral is not to play with things you have no knowledge about.


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