Heartwarming / Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

As an addition to the Harry Potter series, this story is guaranteed to have moments to make your heart melt.

As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.

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• When Hagrid rescues baby Harry from his destroyed house in Godric's Hollow, what he says to the infant shows why the fanbase appreciates Hagrid so much.
  "Well. Hello. Yeh must be Harry. Hello, Harry Potter. I'm Rubeus Hagrid. And I'm gonna be yer friend whether yeh like it or not. 'Cos yeh've had it tough, not that yeh know it yet. An' yer gonna need friends. Now yeh best come with me, don't yeh think?"
  • Hagrid is 11'6" inches tall. A giant of this size would normally squash a child. Hagrid is apparently so gentle that, on his arrival in Privet Drive, Harry is entirely unharmed.
• Even if it was only in a dream, Petunia protecting Harry in Godric's Hollow and revealing that her dislike of the place is really genuine- she could feel it wasn't safe.
• Right at the beginning, we get an Establishing Character Moment for Albus Potter when he reaches out to befriend a lonely, out-of-place first-year who has been all but abandoned on the Hogwarts Express, much as his uncle Ron did. And when he hears the rumors dogging this kid — that he's somehow related to Voldemort — this only hardens his resolve, and he reaches out to the kid despite disapproval from his own family. The kid? Scorpius Malfoy.
  • The development of the friendship between Albus and Scorpius:
    Scorpius: All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry Potter. And I got his son. How crazily fortunate is that.
    Albus: But I’m nothing like my dad.
    Scorpius: You’re better. You’re my best friend, Albus.
• It's revealed that even after all the years of bullying and torment Aunt Petunia doled out onto Harry, she still kept the blanket he was wrapped in when he was first delivered to the Dursleys. When she died, Dudley found it and gave it to him.
  • The blanket is knitted - as Lily and Petunia's parents and James's parents were dead by the time Harry was born, this means that Lily knitted the blanket. So Petunia kept part of her sister...
    • It also proves that, without his parents' bad influence, Dudley actually isn't a bad person. He evidently knows where Harry lives to send him the blanket and the two cousins seem to actually be talking to one another.
• After a few fights, Draco and Harry finally become genuine friends.
  • Draco admits that he always envied the trio as kids because they were genuine friends, as opposed to Crabbe and Goyle, who were mostly just his Co-Dragons.
• Minerva McGonagall is reluctantly carrying out Harry's directions to keep Scorpius and Albus apart — until she uses Exact Words to excuse not separating them when she can't see them beneath the cloak.

  "Well, if I didn't see you, I didn't see you."

• Draco's and Scorpius's meeting in the bad future is almost the opposite, Scorpius is horrified to see Draco has gone full Death Eater, is the Head of Law Enforcement of Voldemort's regime, and is rude, pompous and cruel. This causes Scorpius to lose it completely, wondering if the Malfoys are truly as selfish and evil as everyone has claimed and if his mother's belief that there was something good and noble in them was mistaken. This causes Draco to pause for a moment before gently telling his son that he takes more after his mother than he had thought and that they both have a way of making the world less murky. He then wishes him well in whatever he is doing and only asks him to be careful.

  "Whatever you're doing - do it safely. I can't lose you too."

• Severus Snape being moved by the fact that Harry has a son named after him, and then telling Scorpius that he's proud to have a namesake right before a dementor takes his soul.
• Even though it takes place in a Crapsack World, there’s something heartwarming about seeing Snape interact with Ron and Hermione as peers instead of as their professor. Even his put-downs toward Ron are more snarky than outright mean.
• While discussing his ailing relationship with Albus, Ginny reminds Harry (and the audience) of the subtler things that have always made him a hero:
  Ginny: You know, after I'd opened the Chamber of Secrets—after Voldemort had bewitched me with that terrible diary and I'd almost destroyed everything—
  Harry: I remember.
  Ginny: After I came out of the hospital—everyone ignored me, shut me out—other than, that is, the boy who had everything—who came across the Gryffindor common room and challenged me to a game of Exploding Snap. People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits about you are—have always been—heroic in really quiet ways.

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