Harry potter and the cursed child book cover
We know from the end of Deathly Hallows that his scar didn’t burn after Voldemort’s death, and it could be assumed that he would lose the ability to understand Parseltongue now that Voldemort was no longer a part of him, after he destroyed himself as a Horcrux-a fact Harry confirms in the play when he says, “How do I…? I haven’t been able to understand Parseltongue since Voldemort died.” So why can he understand it now, if he’s no longer a Horcrux? The best explanation might be that the alternate realities created by Albus’s time travel mean that there are parallel universes where he does not destroy himself as a Horcrux, and therefore still has the skill.ĥ. In Cursed Child, Harry feels his scar burning for the first time in two decades and finds that he can once again speak and understand Parseltongue.
What’s going on with the Parseltongue and the burning scar? Was the Dark Lord human enough to conceive a child? We know he was incapable of love, though not necessarily sex, as Rowling hinted in a 2014 tweet:īut could there have been some other form of magical conception that would have allowed him to avoid the very human old-fashioned way? Again, waiting for a Rowling tweet on this one.Ĥ. Additionally, the Redditor points out, her pregnancy could be “why Voldemort insists on Bellatrix getting rid of Nymphadora and keeping her family tree pruned.” Earlier in that book, she also said something strange to the Malfoys as Draco prepares for his assignment: “If I had sons, I would be glad to give them up to the service of the Dark Lord!” Why would she say “sons” instead of “a son”? Perhaps because she’s pregnant and thinking about her future children. One Redditor has speculated that Bellatrix probably gave birth sometime during Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, pointing out that she wasn’t present when Snape killed Dumbledore. Since Bellatrix died in that battle, she has to have given birth earlier. When did Bellatrix Lestrange give birth to Delphi?Īccording to the stage directions, Delphi is a “twenty-something” when she first appears to Albus-twenty-two years after the Battle of Hogwarts. MORE 10 Ways Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Rewarded Longtime FansĢ. Or might it be Cedric Diggory, the boy whose death by the killing curse spurs the plot of the whole play? Or could it be Harry Potter himself, cursed as a father by his own unhappy childhood? We may have to wait for a J.K. The main options seem to be Delphi, cursed by her parentage, or Albus, cursed by his-but some fans have suggested that it could also be Scorpius, cursed either by the rumor of his parentage, or by the curse that eventually killed his mother, Astoria. But by the end of the script-book, it’s not entirely clear who the cursed child is.
In the seven original Harry Potter books, the title formula includes a person (“the prisoner of Azkaban”) or thing (“the Deathly Hallows”) that is murky or unknown to Harry at the beginning of the plot and revealed by the end.