Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Parenthood
Time, Mistakes, and the Past
Friendship, Family, Love, and Bravery
Reputation and Expectation
Death and Sacrifice
Summary
Analysis
Harry and Ginny barge into the Slytherin dormitory while Craig (a Slytherin student) protests that they’re not allowed to visit so late at night. McGonagall enters, telling Craig that it’s all right. Together, they find that Albus and Scorpius are gone again, and McGonagall instructs Craig to go looking for the boys. Harry says that this disappearance feels worse than the last time. Ginny asks what Harry said to Albus earlier in the dorm. Harry says that he didn’t say anything—but he wonders if he scared Albus away again. Ginny grows frustrated, noting that Harry has made many mistakes with their son.
As Harry and Ginny realize that Albus and Scorpius have disappeared once again, Ginny’s frustration with Harry over what he might have said to Albus illustrates that Harry and his son still don’t have a trusting and open relationship. Albus and Scorpius are, in fact, choosing to take matters into their own hands rather than trust their parents, suggesting that Harry, Draco, and the others’ inability to understand Albus’s and Scorpius’s motivations is still causing distance in their relationships.
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