
Meanwhile, Harry has recurring nightmares about Voldemort, making him suspicious of the dark wizard returning. They then go back in time (this Time-Turner only allows for them to travel for five minutes) to the Triwizard Tournament’s first task in 1994, posing as Durmstrang students and disarming Cedric so that he’ll do poorly in the task and won’t be able to win the tournament, which will then prevent his death.


He and Scorpius jump off the Hogwarts Express, meet up with Delphi, and break into Hermione’s office at the Ministry of Magic to steal the Time-Turner. The next day, Albus decides that he wants to correct Harry’s mistake in inadvertently causing Cedric’s death. Albus picks up the blanket and throws it it collides with a love potion Ron gave him and the blanket is ruined. Albus doesn’t appreciate the gift and is frustrated with his father, leading Harry to say that sometimes he wishes Albus weren’t his son. The night before Albus returns for his fourth year, Harry tries to connect with his son by giving him a blanket-the only thing he has left from his mother, Lily. Albus overhears this argument and he also meets Amos’s niece, Delphi. (Cedric was murdered by Voldemort after winning the Triwizard Tournament, although Voldemort was really after Harry.) Harry feels guilty about Cedric’s death, but he knows that meddling with time is dangerous. As rumors spread about the Time-Turner, Harry receives a visit from Amos Diggory, begging Harry to use it to go back in time and save his son Cedric’s life. Just before the start of Albus’s fourth year, the Ministry of Magic acquires a Time-Turner. He grows more distant from Harry because he hates being compared to his famous, talented father, but he grows closer to Scorpius. Years pass, and each one seems to grow more miserable for Albus. In addition, students make fun of Scorpius because he is rumored to be Voldemort’s son. Albus also quickly discovers he has little magical talent, which makes him vulnerable to bullying. At school, Albus is immediately sorted into Slytherin with Scorpius, which devastates him. Albus is nervous about being placed in Slytherin House, but Harry assures Albus that the Sorting Hat will take his choice into account, and that there’s nothing wrong if he is placed in Slytherin.Īboard the Hogwarts Express, Albus quickly befriends the kind and awkward Scorpius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy’s son. Harry is the head of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry, Hermione is the Minister of Magic, Ron manages Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes, and Ginny edits the sports section of the Daily Prophet. She lives in Scotland with her family, and is at her happiest alone in a room, making things up.The play opens on the same scene as the epilogue from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Harry and Ginny’s younger son, Albus, is getting ready to board the train for his first year at Hogwarts. Rowling has also written a stand-alone novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, and, under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, is the author of the ‘Strike’ crime series. Her second screenplay, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in cinemas in 2018. In the same year, she made her debut as a screenwriter with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which was inspired by the original companion volume and features magizoologist Newt Scamander. Rowling collaborated with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany to resume Harry’s story in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which opened first in London, and is now playing on Broadway and in Melbourne, Australia. Alongside the Harry Potter series, she also wrote three short companion volumes: Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which were published in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos. The enduringly popular adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione have sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films, the last of which was released in 2011. ROWLING is best-known as the author of the seven Harry Potter books, which were first published between 19.
