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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The Triwizard Tournament Term Analysis

The Triwizard Tournament was a competition held during Harry’s fourth year at Hogwarts (from 1994-1995), first depicted in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It involved students from three schools: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang. Although only one student was meant to compete from each school, Harry was chosen alongside Cedric Diggory, Fleur Delacour, and Viktor Krum as a trap to get him to face Voldemort. In the first task, students had to retrieve a golden egg being guarded by a dragon; in the second, students swam through the Hogwarts lake to save the person they cared about most; and in the third, students faced obstacles in a hedge maze as they searched for the Triwizard Cup within. Harry and Cedric both won the tournament and grabbed the cup at the same time, transporting them to a graveyard where Voldemort was waiting for Harry. As a result, Voldemort killed Cedric. In the play, Albus and Scorpius go back to these events in the hopes of preventing Cedric from winning the tournament so that his life will be spared.

The Triwizard Tournament Quotes in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child quotes below are all either spoken by The Triwizard Tournament or refer to The Triwizard Tournament. 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:
Parenthood Theme Icon
).
Part 1, Act 2, Scene 8 Quotes

HARRY: I’ve never asked how you felt about me naming him after you, have I?

DUMBLEDORE: Candidly, Harry, it seemed a great weight to place upon the poor boy.

HARRY: I need your help. I need your advice. Bane says Albus is in danger. How do I protect my son, Dumbledore?

DUMBLEDORE: You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.

HARRY: So I’m supposed to stand and watch?

DUMBLEDORE: No. You’re supposed to teach him how to meet life.

HARRY: How? He won’t listen.

DUMBLEDORE: Perhaps he’s waiting for you to see him clearly.

Related Characters: Harry Potter (speaker), Albus Dumbledore (speaker), Albus Severus Potter, Scorpius Malfoy, Severus Snape, Bane
Parenthood Theme Icon
Reputation and Expectation Theme Icon
Page Number: 110
Explanation and Analysis:
Part 2, Act 3, Scene 20 Quotes

CEDRIC: Emancipare! Emancipare!

The boys are freed.

And now I can go on? Finish the maze?

The boys look at CEDRIC—they know exactly what it means for him to finish the maze.

ALBUS: I’m afraid you have to finish the maze.

CEDRIC: Then I shall.

CEDRIC walks confidently away. Albus looks after him—desperate to say something, unsure what to say.

ALBUS: Cedric-

CEDRIC turns towards him.

Your dad loves you very much.

Related Characters: Albus Severus Potter (speaker), Cedric Diggory (speaker), Scorpius Malfoy, Delphi Diggory, Voldemort, Amos Diggory
Related Symbols: Time-Turners
Time, Mistakes, and the Past Theme Icon
Death and Sacrifice Theme Icon
Page Number: 231-232
Explanation and Analysis:
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The Triwizard Tournament Term Timeline in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

The timeline below shows where the term The Triwizard Tournament 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 10
Time, Mistakes, and the Past Theme Icon
Friendship, Family, Love, and Bravery Theme Icon
Reputation and Expectation Theme Icon
Death and Sacrifice Theme Icon
...he’ll explain later and that they have to get off the train. At the last Triwizard Tournament , Albus explains, Cedric Diggory was killed because Voldemort was trying to kill Harry—Cedric only... (full context)
Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4
Time, Mistakes, and the Past Theme Icon
Scorpius emerges, going over the plan with Albus and Delphi. If Cedric hadn’t won the Triwizard Tournament , then he wouldn’t have been killed. So they decide to sabotage Cedric in the... (full context)
Part 1, Act 2, Scene 7
Friendship, Family, Love, and Bravery Theme Icon
Reputation and Expectation Theme Icon
Scorpius and Albus emerge at the Triwizard Tournament in 1994, as Ludo Bagman announces the first task. Scorpius and Albus join the gathered... (full context)
Part 2, Act 3, Scene 5
Time, Mistakes, and the Past Theme Icon
...used a Time-Turner to try to save Cedric Diggory by preventing him from winning the Triwizard Tournament , but they turned him into a different person. Scorpius discovered that because he was... (full context)
Part 2, Act 3, Scene 19
Time, Mistakes, and the Past Theme Icon
...to the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch. Scorpius realizes that Delphi plans to return to the third Triwizard Tournament task—which was a hedge maze on the Quidditch pitch—to try to alter time once more.... (full context)
Part 2, Act 3, Scene 20
Time, Mistakes, and the Past Theme Icon
At the third Triwizard Tournament task in 1995, Delphi drags Albus and Scorpius through the ever-shifting hedge maze. Ludo Bagman... (full context)
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