Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

by

J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany
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Dementors Term Analysis

Dementors are dark, wraithlike beings that feed off of people’s happiness, generating feelings of intense sadness. Dementors can fly and also suck out people’s souls, leaving them husks of themselves. Scorpius faces dementors in the alternate timeline, thinking of Albus to help him stave the dementors off and make him feel happy again.

Dementors Quotes in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child quotes below are all either spoken by Dementors or refer to Dementors. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 2, Act 3, Scene 7 Quotes

HERMIONE: We get this right, Harry’s alive, Voldemort’s dead, and the Augurey is gone, for that no risk is too great. Though I am sorry what it will cost you.

SNAPE: Sometimes costs are made to be borne.

Related Characters: Hermione Granger (speaker), Severus Snape (speaker), Harry Potter, Scorpius Malfoy, Voldemort, Ron Weasley
Related Symbols: The Augurey
Death and Sacrifice Theme Icon
Page Number: 183
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Part 2, Act 3, Scene 9 Quotes

SNAPE: Listen to me, Scorpius. Think about Albus. You’re giving up your kingdom for Albus, right?

SCORPIUS is helpless. Consumed by all the dementor is making him feel. And SNAPE knows he needs to open his heart to save him.

One person. All it takes is one person. I couldn’t save Harry for Lily. So now I give my allegiance to the cause she believed in. And it’s possible—that along the way I started believing in it myself.

SCORPIUS steps decisively away from the dementor.

SCORPIUS: The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don’t want that.

Related Characters: Scorpius Malfoy (speaker), Severus Snape (speaker), Albus Severus Potter, Harry Potter, Lily Potter (Harry’s Mother)
Friendship, Family, Love, and Bravery Theme Icon
Death and Sacrifice Theme Icon
Page Number: 189
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Part 2, Act 3, Scene 14 Quotes

ALBUS: And why was I so determined to do this? Cedric? Really? No. I had something to prove. My dad’s right—he didn’t volunteer for adventure—me, this, it’s all my fault—and if it wasn’t for you everything could have gone Dark.

SCORPIUS: But it didn’t. And you’re to thank for that as much as me. When the dementors were—inside my head—Severus Snape told me to think of you. You may not have been there, Albus, but you were fighting—fighting alongside me.

Related Characters: Albus Severus Potter (speaker), Scorpius Malfoy (speaker), Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Cedric Diggory
Friendship, Family, Love, and Bravery Theme Icon
Reputation and Expectation Theme Icon
Page Number: 208
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Dementors Term Timeline in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

The timeline below shows where the term Dementors appears in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1, Act 1, Scene 19
Friendship, Family, Love, and Bravery Theme Icon
Death and Sacrifice Theme Icon
...believes will lead them to the Time-Turner. They soon puzzle out that the answer is “Dementors,” and they search for a book on dementors. As they do, the bookcase swallows Delphi... (full context)
Part 1, Act 2, Scene 20
Time, Mistakes, and the Past Theme Icon
Wind blows throughout the theater, and dementors begin to fly, sucking the happiness from the stage. Whispers grow; Harry’s nightmares have come... (full context)
Part 2, Act 3, Scene 7
Death and Sacrifice Theme Icon
...and insists on going herself. Snape says that as soon as she steps outside, the dementors would find her, but Hermione replies that this is their only chance to reset the... (full context)
Part 2, Act 3, Scene 9
Death and Sacrifice Theme Icon
...that they’re way too exposed—they need to find shelter. Suddenly, wind starts to rise, and dementors float down in approach. Hermione tells Ron that she loves him, and she says that... (full context)
Friendship, Family, Love, and Bravery Theme Icon
Death and Sacrifice Theme Icon
...run off, but Ron stays with Hermione, saying that he will help her keep the dementors there. They nod to each other sadly, acknowledging that they have a daughter and son.... (full context)
Friendship, Family, Love, and Bravery Theme Icon
Scorpius and Snape stumble down to the lake, and Scorpius is consumed by despair. A dementor swoops towards them, but Snape assures Scorpius that they will only attack if they sense... (full context)
Death and Sacrifice Theme Icon
Dementors close in on Snape and Scorpius, and Snape casts a Patronus—a doe, like Harry’s mother... (full context)
Part 2, Act 3, Scene 14
Friendship, Family, Love, and Bravery Theme Icon
Reputation and Expectation Theme Icon
...they wouldn’t have survived. Scorpius assures Albus that memories of him helped Scorpius fight the dementors, which moves Albus. (full context)
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