A lot of noteworthy things happen in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, but people can't stop talking about the relationship between Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy.
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Harry Potter's son and Draco Malfoy's son hit it off immediately and become the cutest pair of Slytherin best friends to ever exist, practically.
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Some people, however, have been pointing out that their relationship doesn't seem strictly platonic.
They’re citing scenes that read as decidedly ~romantic~.
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Like when they’re banned from seeing each other and there’s a whole montage of them acting DESOLATE.
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Which, by the way, apparently lasts for a full five minutes on stage and is gut-wrenchingly romantic.
Or when there was a lot of tension:
Or when they swapped some words about what they meant to each other.
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Or when Scorpius got a little jealous:
There's already plenty of fan art.
And people are definitely imagining how their relationship would impact their ex-rival fathers.
TBH, some people are pretty annoyed that the play didn't go there.
But at least we'll always have fandom, where everything's made up and CANON DOESN'T MATTER.
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Off to AO3, everyone.
