Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

ALBUS/RON: It’s a riddle. It’s giving us a riddle.
BOOK:
A turn in the city, a glide through a lake.
DELPHI/HERMIONE: What have you done?
SCORPIUS/HARRY: I, uh, I opened a book. Something which has — in all my years on this planet
— never been a particularly dangerous activity.
The books reach out and grab ALBUS/RON. He only just eludes their grasp.
ALBUS/RON: What is that?
DELPHI/HERMIONE (excited): She’s weaponized it. She’s weaponized her library. This is where the
Time-Turner will be. Solve the riddle and we’ll find it.
ALBUS/RON: The first is the fourth. You’ll find it in parked, not in park. Ed — de —
SCORPIUS/HARRY: The second is a disease of the egg, the less fair of those who walk on two legs .
. .
DELPHI/HERMIONE (effusively): Men! De-men . . . tors. We need to find a book on dementors. (She
approaches the bookcase and then is surprised as it tries to swallow her.) Albus!
ALBUS/RON rushes towards the bookcase, but it is too late as she’s swallowed whole.
ALBUS/RON: Delphi! What is going on?
SCORPIUS/HARRY: Concentrate, Albus. Do what she said. Find a book on dementors and be very
careful.
ALBUS/RON: Here. Dominating Dementors: A True History of Azkaban.
The book flies open and swings dangerously at SCORPIUS/HARRY, who has to dodge out of the
way. He falls hard against a bookcase, which attempts to consume him.
BOOK:
I was born in a cage
But smashed it with rage
The Gaunt inside me
Riddled me free
Of that which would stop me to be.
ALBUS/RON: Voldemort.
DELPHI plunges through the books, back as herself.