John Tiffany > Quotes

“Thank you for being my light in the darkness. SNAPE”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“The sky turns even blacker still around them.

'Expecto Patronum!'

SNAPE sends forward a Patronus, and it's a beautiful white shape of a doe.

SCORPIUS: A doe? Lily's Patronus.

SNAPE: Strange, isn't it? What comes from within.
You need to run. I will keep them at bay for as long as I can.

SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the darkness.

SNAPE looks at him, every inch a hero, he softly smiles.”
― John Tiffany & J K Rowling Jack Thorne

“How many people have died for the Boy Who Lived?”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“A Patronus is a magical charm, a projection of all your most positive feelings, and takes the shape of the animal with whom you share the deepest affinity. It is a gift of light. If you can conjure a Patronus, you can protect yourself against the world. Which, in some of our cases, seems like a necessity sooner rather than later.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

“you are making a mistake. HARRY: Albus didn’t like me before. He might not like me again. But he will be safe. With the greatest respect, Minerva —you don’t have children —GINNY: Harry! HARRY: —you don’t understand. PROFESSOR McGONAGALL (deeply hurt): I’d hope that a lifetime spent in the teaching profession would mean . . . HARRY: This map will reveal to you where my son is at all times —I expect you to use it. And if I hear you don’t —then I will come down on this school as hard as I can —using the full force of the Ministry —is that understood? PROFESSOR McGONAGALL (bewildered”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

“DRACO: Flipendo! HARRY is sent twirling through the air. DRACO laughs. Keep up, old man. HARRY: We’re the same age, Draco. DRACO: I wear it better.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

“You know what I loved most about your mother? She could always help me find light in the darkness. She made the world - my world anyway - less - what was the word you used - "murky".”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“JAMES: Apart from the Thestrals. Watch out for the Thestrals. ALBUS: I thought they were invisible! HARRY: Listen to your professors, don’t listen to James, and remember to enjoy yourself. Now, if you don’t want this train to leave without you, you should leap on . . . LILY: I’m going to chase the train out. GINNY: Lily, come straight back. HERMIONE: Rose. Remember to send Neville our love.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“I’d give anything to be going back. HARRY: Strange, Al being worried he’ll be sorted into Slytherin. HERMIONE: That’s nothing, Rose is worried whether she’ll break the Quidditch scoring record in her first or second year. And how early she can take her O.W.L.s. RON: I have no idea where she gets her ambition from. GINNY: And how would you feel, Harry, if Al — if he is? RON: You know, Gin, we”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“That's the thing, isn't it? About friendships. You don't know what he needs. You only know he needs it.”
― John Tiffany & J K Rowling Jack Thorne

“I am the creature you have not seen. I am you. I am me. The echo unforeseen. Sometimes in front, sometimes behind, A constant companion, for we are entwined.”
― John Tiffany

“El amor nos ciega. Los dos hemos intentado dar a nuestros hijos lo que queríamos nosotros, y no lo que querían ellos. Estábamos tan ocupados reescribiendo nuestro pasado que les hemos arruinado el presente.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter y el legado maldito: El guión oficial de la producción original del West End

“Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“Pan, The House of Bernarda Alba, Transform Caithness: Hunter, Be Near Me, Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us, The Bacchae (also Lincoln Center), Elizabeth Gordon Quinn, Home: Glasgow, and Black Watch, which toured internationally and for which he won Olivier and Critics’ Circle awards. He was Associate Director of the Traverse Theatre from 1996 to 2001, Paines Plough from 2001 to 2005, the National Theatre of Scotland from 2005 to 2012, and was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University in the 2010–2011 academic year. JACK THORNE writes for theater, film, television, and radio. His theater credits include Hope and Let the Right One In, both directed by John Tiffany, Junkyard, a Headlong, Rose Theatre Kingston, Bristol Old Vic & Theatr Clwyd co-production, The Solid Life of Sugar Water for the Graeae Theatre Company and the National Theatre,”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

“RON: Have I missed anything — I couldn’t work out which Floo to travel to. Ended up in the kitchen somehow.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

“We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come. HARRY So I’m supposed to stand and watch? DUMBLEDORE No. You’re supposed to teach him how to meet life.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“Losers are taught to be losers. And there’s only one way to teach a loser — and we know that better than anyone — humiliation.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“it is exceptionally lonely, being Draco Malfoy. I will always be suspected. There is no escaping the past. I never realised, though, that by hiding him away from this gossiping, judgemental world, I ensured that my son would emerge shrouded in worse suspicion than I ever endured.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the darkness. SNAPE looks at him, every inch a hero, he softly smiles. SNAPE: Tell Albus — tell Albus Severus — I’m proud he carries my name. Now go. Go.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

“الوحدة أمر قاسي وصعب، فوحدتي هي من أرسلتني لأظلم الأماكن لمددٍ طويلة.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“uh, I opened a book. Something which has — in all my years on this planet — never been a particularly dangerous activity.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

“And it’s just like my father’s! I got his nose, his hair and his name. Not that that’s a great thing either. I mean – father-son issues, I have them. But, on the whole, I’d rather be a Malfoy than, you know, the son of the Dark Lord. SCORPIUS and ALBUS look at each other and something passes between them.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“ستتعلم الضحك، فقط لو جربت الدموع أولاً.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“I’ve never fought alone, you see. And I never will.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come. HARRY”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“من نحبهم حقاً يا هاري، لا يتركونا أبداً.. فهناك أشياء لا يمكن للموت الإقتراب منها، كاللوحة والذكرى والحب.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“ACT TWO SCENE TWELVE HOGWARTS, STAIRCASES”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“desperately) I mean, nice bread,”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don’t want that.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production