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* ForWantOfANail:
** The play makes a point that Cedric Diggory's death was not pointless; its effects on Harry and his friends essentially ensured that he could defeat Voldemort.
** The Augurey's plan actually hinges on this: [[spoiler: she intends to stop Voldemort from trying to kill Harry, so he remains at his full power and only grows stronger as Harry grows up]].
** The play makes a point that Cedric Diggory's death was not pointless; its effects on Harry and his friends essentially ensured that he could defeat Voldemort.
** The Augurey's plan actually hinges on this: [[spoiler: she intends to stop Voldemort from trying to kill Harry, so he remains at his full power and only grows stronger as Harry grows up]].
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* WhatIf:
** The play makes a point that Cedric Diggory's death was not pointless; its effects on Harry and his friends essentially ensured that he could defeat Voldemort.
** The Augurey's plan actually hinges on this: [[spoiler: she intends to stop Voldemort from trying to kill Harry, so he remains at his full power and only grows stronger as Harry grows up]].
** The play makes a point that Cedric Diggory's death was not pointless; its effects on Harry and his friends essentially ensured that he could defeat Voldemort.
** The Augurey's plan actually hinges on this: [[spoiler: she intends to stop Voldemort from trying to kill Harry, so he remains at his full power and only grows stronger as Harry grows up]].
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* TimeyWimeyBall: ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' implies that time travel results in a StableTimeLoop,[[note]]Harry sees his future self save him from Dementors.[[/note]] but this play has time easily being changed. On the other hand, Hermione also mentions in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' that Time-Turners were banned because wizards kept accidentally killing their past selves, so changing the past was always established as a possibility. In Act Two, Scorpius mentions "Professor Croaker's law", which apparently sets the furthest someone can safely travel back in time at five hours; presumably further travel cannot form a stable loop. This is compounded further when, after the first two acts clearly and unambiguously show that travel to the past creates AlternateTimelines, the climax depends on another StableTimeLoop: The villain and heroes travel to the past. The child heroes have no way of stopping the villain from changing time, thus preventing the Good Present that they know and love. Their solution is to send a message forward in time to Albus's father Harry. Harry gets the message and goes back in time to stop the villain's plan. Without Harry coming back in time, the villain would have succeeded in changing time so that the timeline in which Harry got the message never existed. Summarily, the only way for Harry to know to come back to the past was for Harry to come back to the past. Under the TimeTravel methodology established earlier in the play, as soon as the villain and heroes travelled back to the past, all of time from that point forward should have changed, and adult-Harry never should have existed.
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* TimeyWimeyBall: ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'' implies that time travel results in a StableTimeLoop,[[note]]Harry sees his future self save him from Dementors.[[/note]] but this play has time easily being changed. On the other hand, Hermione also mentions in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' that Time-Turners were banned because wizards kept accidentally killing their past selves, so changing the past was always established as a possibility. In Act Two, Scorpius mentions "Professor Croaker's law", which apparently sets the furthest someone can safely travel back in time at five hours; presumably further travel cannot form a stable loop. This is compounded further when, after the first two acts clearly and unambiguously show that travel to the past creates AlternateTimelines, {{Alternate Timeline}}s, the climax depends on another StableTimeLoop: The villain and heroes travel to the past. The child heroes have no way of stopping the villain from changing time, thus preventing the Good Present that they know and love. Their solution is to send a message forward in time to Albus's father Harry. Harry gets the message and goes back in time to stop the villain's plan. Without Harry coming back in time, the villain would have succeeded in changing time so that the timeline in which Harry got the message never existed. Summarily, the only way for Harry to know to come back to the past was for Harry to come back to the past. Under the TimeTravel methodology established earlier in the play, as soon as the villain and heroes travelled back to the past, all of time from that point forward should have changed, and adult-Harry never should have existed.
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''Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'' is a stage play with a script by Jack Thorne (based on a story by Thorne, Creator/JKRowling and John Tiffany) and directed by Tiffany, with a musical score by Music/ImogenHeap. Notably, Rowling considers this play to be {{Canon}} and the official eighth Harry-focused instalment in the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise. It debuted in [[UsefulNotes/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd the West End]] on July 30, 2016; a run on [[UsefulNotes/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd Broadway]] debuted in 2018, while a third run at UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}'s [[UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}} Princess Theatre]] started in 2019.
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''Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'' is a stage play with a script by Jack Thorne (based on a story by Thorne, Creator/JKRowling and John Tiffany) and directed by Tiffany, with a musical score by Music/ImogenHeap. Notably, Rowling considers this play to be {{Canon}} and the official eighth Harry-focused instalment in the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise. It debuted in [[UsefulNotes/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd [[Platform/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd the West End]] on July 30, 2016; a run on [[UsefulNotes/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd [[Platform/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd Broadway]] debuted in 2018, while a third run at UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}'s [[UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}} Princess Theatre]] started in 2019.
