Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

ACT TWO, SCENE SIX
EDGE OF THE FORBIDDEN FOREST
SCORPIUS and ALBUS round a corner to be faced with a gap in the trees . . .
A gap through which is visible . . . a glorious light . . .
SCORPIUS: And there it is . . .
ALBUS swallows as he sees it.
ALBUS: Hogwarts. Never seen this view of it before.
SCORPIUS: Still get a tingle, don’t you? When you see it?
And revealed through the trees is HOGWARTS — a splendid mass of bulbous buildings and
towers.
From the moment I first heard of it, I was desperate to go. I mean, Dad didn’t much like it
there but even the way he described it . . . From the age of ten I’d check the Daily Prophet first
thing every morning — certain some sort of tragedy would have befallen it — certain I
wouldn’t get to go.
ALBUS: And then you got there and it turned out to be terrible after all.
SCORPIUS: Not for me.
ALBUS looks at his friend, shocked.
All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just