==Plot==

Harry and Ginny are on Kings Cross platform 9 3/4 to see their youngest son, Albus Severus
Potter, off to Hogwarts for the first time. Ron and Hermione are also on the platform to see their
daughter, Rose, off to school. She cant wait to board the train. Shes gregarious and quick to
laughso much more confident than the nervous Albus.
As the train pulls out, Rose reminds Albus that their parents met on the Hogwarts Express so
theyd better make a careful choice about where to sit. Much to Roses irritation, Albus elects to
sit in a carriage with another introspective first-year student. This blond boy introduces himself
as Scorpius Malfoy, son of Draco. Despite the kids open discussion that his real father could be
Voldemort, Albus decides to stay.
When they arrive at school, where Professor McGonagall is headmistress, Rose GrangerWeasley is sorted into Gryffindorof course. Scorpius Malfoy into Slytherinof course. Next up
is Albus Potter: Slytherin. But magic doesnt come naturally to Albus, nor does making friends.
At the start of his second year at Hogwarts, Harry suggests he tries to make a few more friends.
Albus says he doesnt need any more mateshe has Scorpius, his best friend.
By the start of the second year, Rose is already a brilliant, popular Quidditch chaser. She and
Albus are barely on speaking terms. Scorpius seems to like Rose, but she teases and ignores
him. James, Albus' older brother, is a popular jokester and the Hogwart's wild child. It is
revealed Harry's youngest daughter Lily is sorted into Gryffindor when she arrives at Hogwarts.
Draco asks Harry to use his position as Head of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of
Magic to shut down gossip that a Time-Turner was used to allow Voldemort to impregnate
Astoria, Dracos wife, who gave birth to Scorpius. It is revealed later on that Astoria died from a
rare genetic blood disease when Scorpius was 13, which is the source of a lot of depression
and hardship for Draco and Scorpius and crops up in an argument between Albus and Scorpius
later on in the play.
He asks for a statement to be released confirming the Time-Turners have all been destroyed,
because his son has such a hard time being bullied about it.
A year later, Theodore Nott, one of Dracos old Slytherin colleagues, is arrested and discovered
to have in his possession an illegal Time-Turnerthey do still exist.
Hermione, the Minister of Magic, tells Harry he needs to get on top of his paperwork as he
hasnt been tracking giants, werewolves, and trolls, who all seem to be on the move. Harry is
still a great wizard but he just cant bring himself to study the files.
Albus and his father are enduring a difficult relationship. The boy listens in as Amos Diggory
meets Harry at his home after trying to contact Harry at the ministry, and demands Harry uses

the seized Time-Turner to go back in time to the Triwizard tournament and save his boy, Cedric,
who was killed on the orders of Voldemort after winning the event.
Harry denies that he has a Time-Turner. Amoss niece Delphie gets talking to Albus, as they
both listen in from the stairs. Albus is intrigued by this older girl with silver and blue hair and she
suggests he visits them at the nursing home where she cares for her uncle.
Worried that Albus is isolating himself at school, Harry gives him a gift of his mothers blanket,
which means a lot to him but doesnt impress Albus. They have an mighty row. Harry says he
sometimes wishes Albus wasnt his son. Albus throws the blanket down on his bed, where it
knocks over a bottle of love potion given to him by Ron.
Back on the train to Hogwarts, Albus hugs Scorpius and tells him they need to go back in time
and save Cedric. After a threatening encounter with the witch who runs the snack trolley they
both jump from the moving train and ditch school.
Harry has a number of traumatic nightmares about his past and his experiences in the Second
Wizarding War, watching people close to him die. Hermione calls a general meeting because
Harrys scar is hurting for the first time in nearly a quarter century and Voldemorts allies are on
the move and a death eater resurgence is occurring. Draco claims Harry Potter just wants his
face in the paper again.
Albus turns up at the nursing home with Scorpius and offers to help the Diggorys because
theres so much blood on his fathers hands. If Cedric hadnt won the Triwizard tournament 26
years earlier, he wouldnt have been killed. So they decide they need to stop him winning. Their
first task is to prevent him getting the golden egg from the dragons.
Albus, Scorpius, and Delphie sneak into the Ministry of Magic using Polyjuice potion. Scorpius
has to kiss Hermione while disguised to maintain a distraction. They manage to break past the
defenses and steal the Time-Turner.
Albus and Scorpius resolve to go back in Durmstrang robes. Delphie gives Albus a good-luck
kiss, and is set up as Albus's spirited and quirky love interest, despite her being 20 years old
and Albus about 15.
Albus and Scorpius succeed in getting back to the Triwizard tournament and sabotaging Cedric
in the first round by casting a spell to snatch his wand.
Meanwhile, their parents are terrified and searching for the missing boys. Bane, the centaur,
tells Harry that he has seen Albus in the movement of the stars. He says there is a dangerous
dark cloud around him.

Harry and Draco finally discover the boys outside Hogwarts when they are suddenly transported
back to the present without warning. It seems the Time-Turner has a five-minute limit and Albus
has suffered a nasty arm break while being snapped back through time.
Harry is sitting at his sons bedside, and Dumbledore appears in the picture frame above his
bed. He tells Harry he must see Albus for what he ishes become blinded by his loveand
doesnt see what is wounding him.
Harry concludes that it must be someonenot somethingwounding his son. He asks Albus if
Scorpius encouraged him to run away? Then says theres a reason to believe black magic is in
the ascendency and Albus must never speak to his best friend Scorpius again. Hell use a
Marauders Map to make sure Albus and Scorpius stay apart.
When Albus wakes, it begins to become clear that things have changed. Ron is married to
Padma Patil, Hermione is a teacher at Hogwarts, and Albus is in Gryffindor, although he still
doesnt get on with his father.
They decide to go back again, to try and fix it.
Harry realizes he was wrong to keep the kids apart and goes back to find them with Ginny and
Draco. They arrive just after Albus and Scorpius have used Moaning Myrtles help and the TimeTurner to get back to the lake during the Triwizard tournament.
The boys use an engorgement spell on Cedric that makes him float out of the Black Lake,
ruining his chances in the second task in the Triwizard tournament.
Scorpius emerges triumphant from the water back in the present day. But he looks around and
theres no sign of Albus. Professor Umbridge tells him to get out of the lakeshe is now the
headmistress of Hogwarts. She says he cant get away with breaking the rules just because
hes from an important family.
Umbridge tells Scorpius there is no such student as Albus Potter, there hasnt been a Potter at
Hogwarts since Harry Potter was killed during a failed coup on the school at the Battle of
Hogwarts. She tells him to get back to school or hes going to ruin Voldemort Day.
A new Hogwarts symbol hangs above the school.
The headmistress calls in Scorpius to say that he seems to be behaving differently. He had
been an athletic Quidditch star who caught all the snake charms, and helped make the school a
safer and purer place by rooting out the dilettante students.
Every conversation in this alternate reality ends by people crossing their wrists and saying: For
Voldemort and valor.

Every girl at Hogwarts is hoping Scorpiusknown as the Scorpion Kingwill ask them to the
Blood Ball. The other kids do his homework.
We hear Mudbloods screaming in the dungeonswhich was apparently Scorpiuss idea.
Draco is the head of Magical Law Enforcement. Scorpius says hes appalled by whats
happening: Three wizards were caught blowing up bridges to see how many Muggles they
could kill with one blast, there are Mudblood death camps, theres torture and the burning alive
of people that oppose the wizards.
Scorpius tells Draco that his mother had always said Drace was a better man than he seemed.
Draco said there is more of his mother in Scorpiusshe always emphasized the light side. He
seems to respect this in his son.
Scorpius goes to Severus Snapewho is still alive in this realityand asks for help. At first
Snape denies that he was once an undercover agent working for Dumbledore, until Scorpius
shares so many details that could have been known by no one in this reality. He tells him that
Harry named his son Albus Severus Potter.
Scorpius explains there was another world where Harry Potter was alive and Voldemort was
dead.
Snape lets him into a secret room where Hermione and Ron are in hiding. Hermione is the most
wanted wizard in the world. They are stunned to hear that in the alternate reality they are
happily married, and Hermione is Minister for Magic. Snape realizes that he must be dead in the
other world.
Hermione and Ron cant safely go outside without the Dementors getting them, but they are
willing to take that risk in order to restore the other reality.
They use the Time-Turner to go back to the Triwizard tournament and Hermione prevents Albus
from casting his first spell on Cedric Diggory.
Just as Albus was injured by his first use of the Time-Turner, Ron suffers a leg injury. As soon as
they return to the present, Dementors descend on them. Hermione says she will stay and face
them while the others run. Ron refuses to go and the two of them are enveloped by the
Dementors, who suck out their souls and carry their bodies away.
Snape and Scorpius escape but are soon confronted by Professor Umbridge. She says they
were seen with Hermione. They are corneredso Snape kills her.
The Dementors descend again. This time Snape allows himself to be destroyed so that
Scorpius can escape. He goes back to fix the other spell.

Cut back to the present and Scorpius emerges from the lakefollowed by Albus. Scorpius is
ecstatic but Albus has no idea what hes talking about.
Harry, Ginny, Draco and Professor McGonagall arrive. They are both alive, but now they are in
big trouble.
McGonagall says bravery does not forgive stupiditythey should be expelled but it might be
safer for them to stay in her care. She gives the boys detention for the rest of the year and bans
them from Hogsmeade.
Scorpius says he has lost the Time-Turner.
Harry is furious with Albus, says he didnt go looking for adventureshe was forced to act when
he was a schoolboy. But he apologizes for thinking the worst of Scorpius.
Harry has a nightmare in which he sees Voldemort snatching Albus away. He believes his son is
still in danger.
Albus and Scorpius are sitting up in their beds chatting about what a star Scorpius was in the
alternate reality. Its given him far more confidence in the current world. He even tried to hug
Rose, although she kicked him in the shin. Albus says he is delighted to be friends with this
version of Scorpius.
Scorpius reaches under his pillow and produces the Time-Turner. He says they cant trust the
Ministry to destroy it, they must do it themselves. So they sneak out of the dorm to go and
disable the dangerous device.
Alarmed by the dream, Harry and Ginny rush to Hogwarts only to find the boys beds are empty.
While the boys debate which spell to use, Delphie arrives. Albus has sent her an owl. He wants
to apologizethey will no longer be able to go back to save Cedric. They explain they had
created an alternative universe in which Cedrics Triwizard humiliation turned him into an angry
young man, who became a Death Eater and eventually killed Neville Longbottom, helping to
usher in an era of the Dark Lord.
Delphie is excited by the drama and explains that Cedric would understand, she says they
should destroy the Time-Turner together and explain to her uncle why Cedric would not be
saved.
Albus hands her the Time-Turner.
They notice a black tattoo of a bird inked onto her back. Delphie says its an Augury, which
reminded her of her childhood as an orphan when she was raised by the Rowle family.

Scorpius points out that the Rowles are an extreme Death Eater family. He suddenly tells
Delphie to stay awayand threatens to cast a spell on her.
She pulls out a wand and binds them together, before snapping their wands.
Delphie says she is the answer this world has been looking for and leads them away.
The adults are trying to figure out how to find the boys when Ron comes in. He tells Harry he
saw Albus with an older girlfriend last night with silver hair. Harry says he must mean Delphie
Diggory, Amoss niece.
They go to see Amos and demand to know where his niece and Albus are, and how they are
plotting to save Cedric this time.
I dont have a niece, says Amos.
So who is she?
Delphie is now telling Albus and Scorpius that she wants to travel back in time to rebirth the
dark; she wants a world of pure magic. She says Voldemort is the one true ruler of the
Wizarding World.
Delphie tells Albus he is going back to the maze task at the Triwizard tournament, where he
must stop Cedric winningand humiliate him thoroughly, to ensure he becomes that angry
young man again. She says she wants him to fly out of that maze naked on a broom of purple
feathers.
Dephie says Albus must be the one to interfere in time because the prophecy says an unseen
child will act. Albus refuses but she threatens to kill Scorpius, his only friend. She begins to
torture Albus. Craig, another student from Hogwarts, rushes up to say the whole school is
looking for them. Delphie kills him instantly.
She says Albuss weakness is the same as his fathers. Its not pride, or the need to impress his
fatherits friendship and his unrelenting trust in others.
Delphie says Voldemort will return and the Augury will sit at his side as it was prophecized.
She takes them back in time, but Albus and Scorpius refuse to co-operate. As Delphie screams
and raises her wand to kill Scorpius, she is struck aggressively from behind.
Its Cedric Diggory.
He thinks this is part of the Triwizard task. Albus tells him to free them, which he does before
returning to the challenge.

Then Delphie staggers to her feet and picks up the Time-TurnerAlbus and Scorpius rush
toward her and grab the device. They race through time once again, but once they arrive
Delphie destroys the Time-Turner and runs away.
The boys dont even know what year they are in. They scout around the village and go to a train
station to decipher the date.
The adults race to Delphies room to try to discover who she is. In the room, concealed by a
Parseltongue code, are more details of the prophesyincluding the claim that she will bring her
father back.
This can only mean one thing: Voldemort had a daughter!
At another general meeting, Professor McGonagall is furious at Hermione for keeping the TimeTurner, and furious that Harrys son gave it to Delphie. Draco stands up to defend them.
Harry tells the meeting there is nothing any of them can do now; they must wait and see if the
witch succeeds in bringing the Dark Lord back from the dead.
Its up to the boys now.
Albus and Scorpius discover that have been transported to October 30, 1981the day before
Harry Potters parents were killed by Voldemort. If Delphie stops Voldemort from accidentally
putting part of their soul into Harrywith a rebounded cursehe cant be killed.
They rush to Godrics Hollow to try and intercept Delphie before she kills Harry in a bid to save
Voldemort.
Back in the present, Harry is weeping in his office, and Draco comes in. He reminds him that he
is Head of Magical Law Enforcement in the alternative reality, and jokes that maybe he will be
again soon.
He reveals that Theodore Notts Time-Turner was simply a prototype for one Nott was building
for Dracos father. He produces the perfected Time-Turner from his pocketthis one has a
golden finish and doesnt suffer from the five-minute limit.
He says its exceptionally lonely being Draco Malfoy and says he kept the Time-Turner secret
because he didnt want to fuel the rumors that Scorpius was Voldemorts son.
Draco is keen to use the Time-Turner to go searching for their sons but Harry says its futile.
They have no idea where or when they are.

Albus is coming to the same realization; he needs to somehow send a message about where
they are to his father in the future. But how can they do it? He sees his grandmother tucking
Harry in with his blanketthe same blanket that Harry would later give to Albus.
He knows his father still loves that blanket. They cant write on it, because he will read the
message too soon and ruin time again.
But Albus remembers that the love potion is spilled on the blanket just before he went back to
Hogwartsif they can find a chemical that will react with that potion, it will react and spell out a
message at just the right time. His father will seek out the blanket again on All Hallows Eve and
see their cry for help.
The boys break into Bathilda Bagshots house and steal the ingredients they need.
As All Hallows Eve arrives in the present, Harry and Ginny are in mournful mood. Harry says he
wishes he had died. He verbally attacks and screams at Dumbledore's portrait for being
abusive, neglectful, and manipulative. After Dumbledore starts crying and rationalizing his
actions, Harry later realizes that Dumbledore was right, and they each tell each other how much
they love each other. He picks up his cherished blanket, and sees that something has appeared
on it.
Its hard to decipher but he sees the date31/10/81.
Harry, Ginny, Draco, Ron, and Hermione head back to Godrics Hollow 1981 to help the boys.
Albus and Scorpius explain that Delphie is coming to kill Harry. They hide in the church where
they can look out for her without being seen.
Ginny realizes Delphie wouldnt have come to this date to kill Harry. She must be waiting to stop
Voldemort trying to kill Harry, otherwise she could have killed Harry when he was even younger.
Hermione agrees.
Harry volunteers to transfigure into Voldemort and lead Delphie into a trap. The others will wait
in the church behind the large wooden doors and he will lure her inside.
Delphie finally appears and Harry, as Voldemort, pretends not to know who she is. She explains
that she is the child of an affair between Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange
He says together they could become an unstoppable force together, but the transfiguration
begins to fade. She sees that is Harry, and claims she has studied him and knows him better
than her father did. She locks the doors to prevent the others jumping out to help.
Without a wand, he is forced to hide beneath a church pew as she is attacking him.

Delphie lifts the pew into the air to reveal Harry lying prostrate on the floor. Just as he is about to
be murdered, Albus lifts up a grate in the floor and throws a wand to his father. Delphie
immediately attacks Albus and tries to murder him.
Together they are able to overpower Delphie in a violent struggle.
Albus was the only one small enough to crawl through a grate beneath the floor.
The young wizard wants to kill her in an act of vengeance for Craig Bowker, but Harry and the
others insist she must be imprisoned in Azkaban. Delphie begs them to kill her or wipe her
memory, for all she wanted was to see her father again. Harry tells her that she will always be
and orphan, and she will never forget that.
The sound of snakes is heard and the real Voldemort appears. They hide as he walks toward
the Potter home. Harry knows he cannot intervene to save his parents because he would
meddle with time once again.
Together they all watch as Harrys parents are murdered. Harry collapses to the floor in tears.
Back in the present. Scorpius is saying to Albus: I cant believe I did that! I asked out Rose
Granger-Weasley. After a pitying glance, she eventually accepts his invitation.
Harry promises Albus hell be a better dad. He confesses that hes not such a perfect figure. He
discusses his trauma from the war, saying hes afraid of the dark, small spaces, even pigeons.
Most of all hes scared of being a dad. He has no role model so he says hes doing his best.
Albus asks if he is like his dad, rather than his confident big brother, James. Harry replies that
hes more like his mother.
Harry tells his son that he shouldnt be weighed down by his name because Albus Dumbledore
and Severus Snape were great men, but they were also flawed. It was those flaws that made
them even greater