Author: Akshay Iyer, Class VIII E
This book review is of one of the world’s most famous story lines, Harry Potter’s lesser-known part The Cursed Child. This book revolves around Albus Severus Potter, the son of the hero of the prior books, Harry Potter. The main villain of this story Delphini Diggory aka Aubrey is the daughter of the villain of the prior books Lord Voldemort or The Dark Lord. Delphini is obsessed with a prophecy which says – When spares are spared, when time is turned, when overshadowed sons kill their fathers, then shall the dark lord return.
The first line of this prophecy refers to the 4th book of the series The Goblet of Fire when Lord Voldemort commanded his servant to kill a person named Cedric Diggory by saying ‘Kill the spare’. The second line refers to a device called The Time Turner which helps one go back in time. The third line suggests Albus killing his father Harry Potter; Then the dark lord will return.
In this story Delphini makes Amos Diggory believe that she is his nephew and tries to manipulate Albus into doing all the things told in the prophecy. As a first move, by saying that Cedric’s father Amos Diggory would be happy to see his son back with him she put Albus into an emotional turmoil and he agrees to help Delphini meet his father. They went back in time to the first challenge of the Triwizard cup in The Goblet of Fire. When they meddled with the challenge and made Cedric fail the task by disarming him which made an alternate timeline which in which Ron Weasley marries Padma Patel and Hermione Granger goes insane; but as Albus and Scorpius do not like the new reality they go back in time again and fix everything.
The next time Delphini convinces Albus to go to the second task of the Triwizard tournament and there Albus inflated Cedric thus he failed the task which caused another alternate timeline in which Cedric becomes a death eater and kills Neville Longbottom because of which Harry dies and Voldemort takes over. In this timeline Hermione and Severus Snape form a resistance and fight against the rule of Voldemort.
The third time Delphini threatens to kill Scorpius and takes them to the third task of the Triwizard tournament in which they are saved by Cedric himself.
In the fourth and final attempt she goes back in time and stops her father (Voldemort) from visiting the house of the Potters due to which Harry will not be special and can be easily killed by Voldemort, but her plans are foiled by Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Draco and Ron as they disguise Harry as Voldemort and capture her. This is where the story ends.
This book gives us a feeling of adventure and uses imagery to make us feel like we are in the story. This book also tells us what would have happened to the Harry potter series if Cedric did not die.
