![]() Sure, he has made some progress in the 19 years since he graduated from Hogwarts, but another potential rise of Voldemort and, perhaps more importantly, the struggle of being a good parent to Albus, make him face his cursed past more than ever before. Harry’s arc in The Cursed Child is his struggle to get past his abusive childhood and the PTSD he still suffers as a result of the terrible events that helped to define his adolescence. ![]() The conversation is one seven books in the making, one that Harry and Dumbledore were only partially able to have when they met in purgatorial King’s Cross while Harry was between life and death at the end of The Deathly Hallows. ![]() Later, in one of the most emotional moments of the five-hour, two-part play, we witness a conversation between Harry and Dumbledore’s portrait in which Harry is finally given the chance to express his anger at Dumbledore for leaving him to be raised by the Dursley’s, manipulating into being The Chosen One, and for ultimately leaving him behind in death to face it all on his own. The dramatic irony is tragically strong with this one. We get to see a loving Lily Potter as she takes her baby son for a walk through Godric’s Hollow. In these flashbacks, we see Harry stuck living (unloved) in a cupboard, visiting his mother and father’s grave, and Hagrid finally coming to tell him about his magic on his eleventh birthday. ![]()
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