Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Trivia
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50 free Harry Potter and the Cursed Child trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picked up where the novels left off and moved the story to the stage: two parts, four acts, a school-age son who cannot stand being a Potter, and a time-travel plot that rewrites the wizarding world twice before lunch. It broke the Olivier Awards record in London, won Best Play on Broadway and has played to audiences from Melbourne to Hamburg to Toronto. These 50 questions stay on the play itself rather than the books: what the adult trio do for a living now, which house the Sorting Hat chooses for Albus, how the Time-Turner plot unravels, who the villain really is, and the people who built the production, from the playwright and the composer to the actors who originated the roles. There are questions on the theatres, the script book, the 2021 one-part revision and the records the show has set along the way. Play it after seeing the show or reading the script, set it for a Potter-obsessed friend, or print it for a wizarding-world quiz night.
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Q 01In Cursed Child, the Sorting Hat breaks a Potter family tradition by placing Albus in which house?
Slytherin
Slytherin takes Albus alongside his new friend Scorpius Malfoy, the boy he met on the Hogwarts Express that morning. Both are bullied for years afterwards, Albus for failing to live up to his parents.
Q 02Which Harry Potter film actor joined Cursed Child on Broadway in November 2025, reprising his screen role?
Tom Felton
Tom Felton came back as Draco Malfoy, this time as a grown father, and the show's weekly grosses more than doubled once he arrived.
Q 03In Cursed Child's darkest timeline, what does Cedric become after the boys wreck his second task?
A Death Eater
A Death Eater Cedric kills Neville Longbottom at the Battle of Hogwarts, so Nagini is never destroyed and Voldemort wins. Harry dies, Albus is never born and Scorpius returns alone to the wreckage.
Q 04Cursed Child's villain Delphi is Voldemort's daughter; which of his followers is her mother?
Bellatrix Lestrange
Bellatrix Lestrange is named when Delphi pleads for acceptance from the figure she takes for Voldemort, who is really Harry in disguise.
Q 05In which village does the final duel with Delphi take place in Cursed Child?
Godric's Hollow
Godric's Hollow in 1981 is where Delphi hopes to stop Voldemort attacking the Potters; Harry lures her out disguised as Voldemort, then has to let his parents' murder play out.
Q 06Which playwright wrote the script of Cursed Child?
Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne wrote it because J. K. Rowling told the producers from the start that she was no playwright; she shares only the story credit with him and the director. He later co-wrote Netflix's Adolescence.
Q 07Which high office does Hermione hold when the main story of Cursed Child begins?
Minister of Magic
Minister of Magic Hermione keeps a confiscated Time-Turner locked in her office, which is exactly where Albus, Scorpius and Delphi go to steal it.
Q 08Which Cambridge Circus venue, built for Richard D'Oyly Carte, hosts Cursed Child in the West End?
Palace Theatre
The Palace Theatre opened in 1891 as the Royal English Opera House, failed as a home for English opera and was turned into a variety theatre the following year.
Q 09What did Cursed Child's original Albus and Scorpius actors eat on stage in place of Gillyweed?
Apple skin
Apple skin won out over real seaweed and samphire, the edible options the two actors were offered to stand in for the underwater-breathing plant.
Q 10Rowling defended whose casting as Cursed Child's Hermione by noting her skin was never specified as white?
Noma Dumezweni
Noma Dumezweni answered the row on stage: she won the 2017 Olivier for Best Supporting Actress as Hermione and took the part to Broadway.
Q 11Which Broadway house was rebuilt with fewer seats for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child?
Lyric Theatre
The Lyric Theatre's $33 million rebuild moved its entrance from 42nd to 43rd Street and pushed the play's opening cost to about $68 million, then the most for any Broadway non-musical.
Q 12Which hashtag did J. K. Rowling promote to ask Cursed Child audiences not to spoil the play's twists?
#KeepTheSecrets
#KeepTheSecrets began with a plea from J. K. Rowling on Twitter, and audiences at the first previews were handed badges carrying the slogan.
Q 13Which Harry Potter film director called a Cursed Child movie 'never going to happen' in 2025?
Chris Columbus
Q 21In Cursed Child, what kills Scorpius Malfoy's mother Astoria while the boys are still at school?
A blood curse
A blood curse inherited through Astoria's family claims her, leaving Scorpius grieving a mother while the rumour that he is really Voldemort's son follows him around the school.
Q 22In Cursed Child, what tempted Draco to use the perfected Time-Turner he kept hidden?
Seeing his dead wife again
Seeing his dead wife again is the temptation Draco resists, and he hides the device because admitting it exists would feed the rumour that Scorpius was conceived with a Time-Turner.
Q 23While Harry works at the Ministry in Cursed Child, what job does Ginny Potter hold?
Chris Columbus, who had hoped to film it with the original cast, said the actors' differences with J. K. Rowling's views now made that impossible.
Q 14Which British singer-songwriter composed the music for Cursed Child?
Imogen Heap
Imogen Heap, the voice of 'Hide and Seek', learned the creative team was already using her old tracks, then reworked her back catalogue into the score.
Q 15What cruel thing does Harry say to Albus during their row in Cursed Child?
Wishing he were not his son
Wishing he were not his son is what Harry blurts out, and Albus spills Ron's love potion over a gift from his father in his fury. The line is the wound the rest of the play tries to heal.
Q 16Which senior Ministry post does Harry hold in Cursed Child?
Head of Magical Law Enforcement
Head of Magical Law Enforcement Harry has just confiscated a prototype Time-Turner, and his refusal to use it for a grieving father is what sets Albus off on the whole plot.
Q 17Which ageing wizard, cared for by a niece called Delphi, begs Harry in Cursed Child to save his son?
Amos Diggory
Amos Diggory has been bewitched: Delphi is no relation of his, and she needs a grieving father's plea to put a Time-Turner in two teenagers' hands.
Q 18Which director, who shares Cursed Child's story credit with J. K. Rowling, staged the play in London and on Broadway?
John Tiffany
John Tiffany reunited with a friend he had made at 15 in a Huddersfield youth choir, his partner on Black Watch and Once, who became the play's movement director.
Q 19Which Belfast-born actor, later in Masters of the Air, originated Scorpius Malfoy in Cursed Child?
Anthony Boyle
Anthony Boyle had been performing a one-man show in a Belfast community centre the summer before, and won the audition while finishing drama school.
Q 20What does Ron Weasley do for a living in Cursed Child?
Runs the family joke shop
Runs the family joke shop: Ron manages Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes with his brother George, though once the boys meddle with time he is married to Padma Patil instead of Hermione.
Sports editor of the Daily Prophet
Sports editor of the Daily Prophet Ginny is also the parent who talks Harry down when he tries to force the school to keep Albus and Scorpius apart.
Q 24On their first trip back in Cursed Child, Albus and Scorpius pose as students of which school?
Durmstrang
The Durmstrang disguises backfire: they make Hermione suspicious of Viktor Krum, so she goes to the Yule Ball with Ron, Ron never feels jealous, and the two never marry.
Q 25After the first meddling in Cursed Child, Ron never marries Hermione; what has she become instead?
A frustrated Hogwarts professor
A frustrated Hogwarts professor Hermione is the price of Ron falling for Padma Patil at the Yule Ball instead, and in the same timeline Albus finds himself sorted into Gryffindor.
Q 26Which teacher who dies in the books is alive and aiding the resistance in Cursed Child's dark timeline?
Severus Snape
Severus Snape survives in the world where Voldemort won, and his sacrifice, alongside alternative versions of Ron and Hermione, is what lets Scorpius undo the damage and restore the original timeline.
Q 27What does the centaur Bane see around Harry's son Albus in Cursed Child?
A dark cloud
A dark cloud is Bane's warning, and with Harry's nightmares about Voldemort it convinces him that Scorpius is the danger, so he tries to have the two boys kept apart at Hogwarts.
Q 28In Cursed Child, Albus steals Harry's old Invisibility Cloak to reach Scorpius; who had it?
His older brother James
His older brother James is the one holding the Cloak, and the theft reunites the friends just before their second, far more disastrous, trip into the past.
Q 29Stranded decades in the past in Cursed Child, on what do Albus and Scorpius write an invisible message?
Harry's old baby blanket
Harry's old baby blanket is the only thing the boys know will survive the years, because the love potion Albus spilled on it in the present will stain the words into view.
Q 30In Cursed Child, which Hogwarts Express fixture turns on the boys trying to leave the train early?
The Trolley Witch
The Trolley Witch tells the boys the train does not like students leaving early, turns her hands into spikes and reveals her Pumpkin Pasties double as grenades.