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

by John Tiffany

HARRY and DRACO sit far apart. GINNY stands between them. DRACO: Sorry about your kitchen, Ginny. GINNY: Oh, it’s not my kitchen. Harry does most of the cooking. There’s a silence. DRACO (this is hard for him): I can’t talk to him either. Scorpius. Especially since — Astoria has gone. I can’t even talk about how losing her has affected him. As hard as I try, I can’t reach him. You can’t talk to Albus. I can’t talk to Scorpius. That’s what this is about. Not about my son being evil. Because as much as you might take the word of a haughty centaur, you know the power of friendship. HARRY: Draco, whatever you may think . . . DRACO: I always envied you them, you know — Weasley and Granger. I had — GINNY: Crabbe and Goyle. DRACO: Two lunks who wouldn’t know one end of a broomstick from another. You — the three of you — you shone, you know? You liked each other. You had fun. I envied you those friendships more than anything else. GINNY: I envied them too. HARRY looks at GINNY, surprised. HARRY: I need to protect him — DRACO: My father thought he was protecting me. Most of the time. People say parenting is the hardest job in the world — they’re wrong — growing up is. We all just forget how hard it was. As hard as he tries to resist them, these words resonate with HARRY. I think you have to make a choice — at a certain point — of the man you want to be. And I tell you that at that time you need a parent or a friend. And if you’ve learnt to hate your parent by then and you have no f...