How is it you’ve grown handsomer and handsomer as you’ve aged? And you’re taller. MOANING MYRTYLE: I think it was a secret, but I could never keep anything from you, Harry. Moaning Myrtle also hits on Harry a tad less: – Act Two, Scene Sixteen: Hogwarts Library You make me stronger - and when Dad forced us apart - without you. And you don’t - you couldn’t - hold me back. SCORPIUS: I didn’t much like my life without you in it either.ĪLBUS: And it’s something I should have said a long time ago. In fact, you’re probably the best person I know. SCORPIUS: That’s nice - that’s a nice thing to say.ĪLBUS: And it’s something I should have said a long time ago. It seems like 99.9% of the script’s dialogue was locked in by the time the Rehearsal Edition was printed.īut there were a couple changes, including this outrageous adjustment that is just another stab in the heart for SCORBUS shippers: The Final Edition removes a line from Albus in which he calls Scorpius “the best person I know”:ĪLBUS: I truly believe Voldemort - Voldemort couldn’t have a child like you. – Act Two, Scene Fifteen: Harry and Ginny Potter’s House, Kitchen Dialogue changesĬhanges in dialogue between the Cursed Child Rehearsal and Final Editions scripts were far less common. Maybe the black cloud Bane saw was Albus’s loneliness.

You may not understand that, Harry, but I do - and I think Ginny does too.ĭRACO: Tom Riddle didn’t emerge from his dark place. And if you’ve learnt to hate your parent by then and you have no friends… then you’re all alone. All I tell you that at that time you need a parent or a friend. I think you have to make a choice - at a certain point - of the man you want to be. We all just forget how hard it was.Īs hard as he tries to resist them, these words resonate with HARRY. People say parenting is the hardest job in the world - they’re wrong - growing up is. Because he needs you, and Scorpius, whether or not he now knows it.ĭRACO: My father thought he was protecting me. And I tell you that at that time you need a parent or a friend. Then there are cases like this, where an internal thought is added and some dialogue is rearranged:ĭRACO: My father thought he was protecting me.

– Act Three, Scene One: Hogwarts, Headmistress’s Office

He is aware of danger from all sides and remains coiled and alert throughout. SCORPIUS enters the office of DOLORES UMBRIDGE.

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