Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the exploration of fatherhood
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child brings a lot to light in the modern era of the series but it also drives home the idea of fatherhood and how Harry faces it.
When it comes to fear, Harry Potter is no stranger and in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, he faces it head on. Mainly through his son Albus. Albus Potter, who is more like Harry than he’d like to admit, doesn’t get along with his father that well and thus the fear of being a bad dad because he doesn’t know what to do blossoms within Harry.
What’s interesting to me is that it more focuses on Harry’s fear of being absent from his kids in the way that his father was technically absent from his life. Being there for his kids physically but not emotionally is almost worse than not being able to have James Potter at all. But then again, Harry doesn’t really have anything to go off of.
His entire life, he was looking for a father figure to look up to. Someone he could trust and every time he ended up being let down so I think that in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, he has a deep-seated fear of doing the same for his own children even while being there physically. That and he doesn’t know how to talk to Albus because he is the most like Albus but still.
In the end, they work out a way for them to communicate with one another but it is interesting to see how the show looks at fatherhood.
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