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RUMOR: Potential Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Part 1 Plot Leaked

By Katie Majka

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With the Cursed Child previews officially underway, some fans took to Twitter to detail what Part 1 has in store. Are these real spoilers, or is the internet trying to pull a fast one on Potterheads?

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J.K. Rowling may have spearheaded the #KeepTheSecrets campaign to prevent Harry Potter and the Cursed Child plot points from leaking during the two-part play’s previews, but it’s not enough to stop spoilers from spreading.

According to a TwitLonger thread, the much-anticipated continuation of the Golden Trio’s story is hardly what fans have expected thus far. While the popular theory that the questionably named Albus Severus Potter would butt heads with his father’s insurmountable legacy seems to be true, the details sound less like a canonical sequel, and more like the results of a Harry Potter Next Gen fanfiction search.

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Some of the finer details of the TwitLonger include the following information:

  • Albus, along with Scorpius Malfoy, are Sorted into Slytherin. Rose Granger-Weasley is a Gryffindor.
  • Albus catches flak for being a Slytherin-Sorted Potter, so it would seem that some feuds never die.
  • The Hogwarts rumor mill remains in fine form, and churns out some intel that Draco and Astoria Malfoy were unable to have children, so Astoria went back in time and, as a result, Scorpius is actually Voldemort’s son. That’s bold, Hogwarts, even for you. Meanwhile, Astoria is dead by Scorpius’ third year due to some unspecified illness.
  • All nonsense considered, Albus and Scorpius band together in best friendship.
  • Before Albus’ fourth year commences, he and Harry argue, which results in both of them wishing the other didn’t exist to them—Albus doesn’t want Harry as a father, and Harry doesn’t want Albus as a son. Pretty standard card for a fourteen-year-old to play, but Harry really has no excuses, and in fact such an outburst from him is quite disturbingly out of character.
  • Amos Diggory shows up because a Time-Turner was confiscated from Theodore Nott. (Apparently the Notts had their hands on one before the Ministry’s entire supply was destroyed in Order of the Phoenix?)
  • Albus and Scorpius decide to steal the Time-Turner to go back and save Cedric Diggory. Amos’ niece, Delphinus, tags along for the ride. Polyjuice Potion is involved.
  • Their time foolery has consequences: Ron and Hermione never get together so Rose no longer exists, Ron marries Padma Patil, and Hermione remains unmarried and becomes the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
  • Harry attempts to tear Albus and Scorpius apart, and then he and Draco have a go at each other later.
  • Albus and Scorpius go back in time again, but only Scorpius returns. Umbridge arrives, reveals that Harry has been dead for twenty years, and so there are no Potters left—ergo, Albus no longer exists. Part 1 ends on this note.

Does anyone else feel a stress headache coming on?

Those who haven’t seen Part 1 of the Cursed Child preview can’t be sure that such accounts are truthful (this is the internet, after all), but nevertheless they give us pause. Would the Harry Potter we’ve come to know really treat his youngest son as detailed here? Harry, a victim of familial abuse who overcame that trauma to become the empathetic, loving man who sacrificed himself for a world that often turned its back on him? Such characterization would be an insult to abuse victims and survivors everywhere.

As for the rest of it… I’m not quite sure where to begin. Does Cursed Child really rely on a time-travel trope? Is Astoria—who, based on the little information we have of her, is super cool and interesting—seriously dead? Is Amos Diggory necessary? Since when would Padma Patil agree to marry Ron (wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey butterfly effects notwithstanding)? The questions are endless, and all in all it seems like a mess.

Then again, perhaps Rowling’s #KeepTheSecrets campaign is indeed going strong, and this particular TwitLonger is an exercise in throwing fans off the scent. I’m afraid that this may be a naive hope on my part, but what this TwitLonger details is some of the most unpalatable plot I’ve ever read, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it’s a joke (in which case, well played).

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What do you think, fellow Potterheads? Is this what we have to look forward to seeing played out come July, and what are your thoughts either way? And what could possibly happen in Part 2?

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