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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 as Draco Malfoy?
Tom Felton
Tom Felton was the first actor from the films to play his role on stage, and the show's weekly grosses more than doubled, from $1.3 million to $2.6 million, 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 bore Voldemort's child, a twist the official site calls the product of "an apparently brief incident"; Harry's scar starts hurting again as Delphi's plan advances.
Q 05How many Olivier Awards did Cursed Child win in 2017, a record for a single production?
Nine
Nine Olivier wins from a record eleven nominations overtook Matilda and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which had each won seven.
Q 06Which playwright, who later co-wrote Netflix's Adolescence, wrote the script of Cursed Child?
Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne is credited as sole scriptwriter, working from a story he built with J. K. Rowling and the director; his other screen work includes Wonder, Enola Holmes and His Dark Materials.
Q 07Nineteen years after the Battle of Hogwarts, what post does Hermione hold in Cursed Child?
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 and later housed Les Misérables for nineteen years before the play arrived in 2016.
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, who arrived in England as a seven-year-old refugee, went on to win the Olivier for Best Supporting Actress for the role, her second Olivier.
Q 11Which Broadway house lost 400 seats in a $68 million rebuild for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child?
Lyric Theatre
The Lyric Theatre overhaul made Cursed Child the most expensive non-musical play in Broadway history by the New York Times's estimate, before it opened there in April 2018.
Q 12Which hashtag, printed on every Cursed Child ticket, asks audiences not to spoil the play's twists?
#KeepTheSecrets
#KeepTheSecrets even comes with a follow-up: online ticket buyers are emailed a video of J. K. Rowling after the show asking them to support the campaign.
Q 13Which director of the first two Potter films 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 22Draco admits in Cursed Child he owns a perfected Time-Turner he never used; what tempted him to try?
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 had floated directing such a film in 2021 with the original actors returning, and Daniel Radcliffe told the New York Times in 2022 he was not interested for now.
Q 14Which singer-songwriter behind 'Hide and Seek' composed the music for Cursed Child?
Imogen Heap
Imogen Heap's score earned a 2020 Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album, a rare honour for a play rather than a musical.
Q 15In their worst row in Cursed Child, what does Harry Potter say to Albus that neither can take back?
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 Ministry post does Harry hold in Cursed Child, putting the seized Time-Turner on his desk?
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 Cedric's 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 of Black Watch and the musical Once staged Cursed Child in London and on Broadway?
John Tiffany
John Tiffany collected both the 2017 Olivier and the 2018 Tony for directing the play, a double that made him one of the few to win both for a single production.
Q 19Which Belfast-born actor, later in Masters of the Air, originated Scorpius Malfoy in Cursed Child?
Anthony Boyle
Anthony Boyle used a wheelchair for several years as a child because of a bone condition, and says improvising dialogue while watching other children play is how he learned to act.
Q 20How many Tony Awards, including Best Play, did Cursed Child collect at the 72nd ceremony in 2018?
Six
Six Tonys from ten nominations made it the night's second-biggest winner behind The Band's Visit, which took ten; the wins covered direction and all four design categories for a play.
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 27Which centaur tells Harry Potter in Cursed Child that a 'dark cloud' hangs around his son Albus?
Bane
Bane's warning, on top of Harry's nightmares about Voldemort, convinces Harry that Scorpius is the danger and sends him to McGonagall to demand the boys be kept apart.
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, whose cart of Cauldron Cakes and Chocolate Frogs was 'always a welcome appearance', shows the boys a very different side, a talent the official encyclopaedia files under self-transfiguration.