Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

by John Tiffany

Ah really, what does my opinion matter anymore? I am paint and memory, Harry, paint and memory.

People say parenting is the hardest job in the world — they’re wrong — growing up is. We all just forget how hard it was.

Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show them your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry.