Team Scorbus!

Forward Momentum by gobstoneswithhector

Pairing: Scorpius Malfoy/Albus Severus Potter Rating: M Word Count: 13k Summary: Albus Potter knows that his job is nothing special. He drives the Knight Bus, a wild ride ready to transport any witch or wizard in need as long as it's after dark. The route rarely deviates, and the passengers are always the same: detached, exhausted, and just trying to avoid cranial damage. Albus is content with his life, for the most part. It is only every daybreak when he faces a crushing loneliness.

It is in late summer when an otherwise ordinary evening takes a turn, and the Knight Bus is summoned to a long-forgotten estate in Wiltshire. Someone called Scorpius Malfoy boards, and Albus can't help but feel a connection with him. Their lives, which had ran parallel for so long, have finally converged, and Albus is desperate to prolong the journey. But by the time Albus realizes that he's fallen for Scorpius, the Knight Bus has reached its last stop.

When the author of a work uses the modal verb “should” to refer to her own story, you can be sure she’s using a DEONTIC should.

The politeness of her using “should” instead of “must” does not remove the fact that her “should” should must (I’m not polite) be read as “Cursed Child is canon.”

Please, pay attention. She didn’t use “can be considered canon”, she said “SHOULD be considered canon, because I—the fucking author of the books—developed it!”

By the way, it refers to the story of Cursed Child. Not Cursed Child itself, not the play, but the story. It means that you MAY/MIGHT/CAN/COULD probably discuss the wordings of the character’s cues, the exact way Harry is being insensitive to his son for instance. The exact date of Delphini’s birth at Malfoy Manor. The colour of Delphini’s hair, even. Who knows?

But you CANNOT/SHOULD NOT say that Delphini herself is not canon. You can’t say that Delphini is not Bellatrix and Voldemort’s daughter. It’s the actual PLOT of the play whose title is CURSED CHILD!

Should is not a suggestion. It’s not a piece of advice. It’s not optional.

It’s very close to The story of Cursed Child ought to be considered canon. And the second sentence confirms it if there was any doubt, as she’s using her own legitimacy as the author of the books to justify why CC is canon.

Oh, and before I forget, it’s not because an author starts developing a sequel years after finishing her books that she didn’t have the story in mind when she was writing the books.

And of course it’s conjecture. It’s only a supposition. I’m not affirming anything here, I just analysed the text and I came to the reasonable conclusion that JKR was considering the idea of Voldemort and Bellatrix having a child together when writing HBP and DH.

Well when you put it like that aklsdjaklsjdakls

Aidan Close as Scorpius and Emmet Smith as Albus 🦋