Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

ALBUS: So we need to — talk to the future. We need to send Dad a message.
SCORPIUS: But we don’t have an owl that can fly through time. And he doesn’t have a Time-
Turner.
ALBUS: We get a message to Dad, he’ll find a way to get back here. Even if he has to build a
Time-Turner himself.
SCORPIUS: We send a memory — like a Pensieve — stand over him and send a message, hope he
reaches for the memory at exactly the right moment. I mean, it’s unlikely, but . . . Stand over
the baby — and just repeatedly shout HELP. HELP. HELP. I mean, it might traumatize the
baby slightly.
ALBUS: Only slightly.
SCORPIUS: A bit of trauma now is nothing compared to what’s happening . . . and maybe when he
then thinks — later — he might remember the faces of us as we — shouted —
ALBUS: Help.
SCORPIUS looks at ALBUS.
SCORPIUS: You’re right. It’s a terrible idea.
ALBUS: It’s one of your worst ideas ever.
SCORPIUS: Got it! We deliver it ourselves — we wait forty years — we deliver it —
ALBUS: Not a chance — once Delphi has set time the way she wants she’ll send armies to try and
find us — kill us —
SCORPIUS: So we hide in a hole?
ALBUS: As pleasurable as it will be to hide in a hole with you for the next forty years . . . they’ll
find us. And we’ll die and time will be stuck in the wrong position. No. We need something
we can control, something we know he’ll get at exactly the right time. We need a —
SCORPIUS: There’s nothing. Still, if I had to choose a companion to be at the return of eternal
darkness with, I’d choose you.
ALBUS: No offense, but I’d choose someone massive and really good at magic.
LILY exits the house with BABY HARRY in a pram, she carefully puts a blanket on him.
His blanket. She’s wrapping him in his blanket.
SCORPIUS: Well, it is a moderately cold day.