Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Later, Albus is sleeping in a church pew while Harry looks out the window, waiting for Delphi. Harry tells Ginny that Albus thought he had to save the world. Ginny points out that he has saved the world—even though he almost destroyed it in the first place. She assures Harry that Albus is going to be okay.

Ginny says that after she opened the Chamber of Secrets and almost destroyed Hogwarts, everyone ignored her—except for Harry, when he invited her to play a game in the Gryffindor common room. She says that the best aspects of him have always been heroic in quiet ways. She tells him to remember that sometimes kids just need to play and feel loved, the way she felt that day.

Harry says that he would do anything for Albus, but Ginny points out that he’d do anything for anybody—he sacrificed himself for the world. Albus needs to feel specific love, it’ll make them both stronger. Harry says that it wasn’t until Albus ran away that he truly understood what his mother Lily was able to do for him: express a love so powerful it repelled death. He tells Ginny that he does love Albus specifically, but Ginny points out that Albus needs to feel it. Harry agrees, and he tells Ginny that he’s lucky to have her.

Harry and Ginny turn back to focus on stopping Delphi, but Ginny realizes suddenly that Delphi could have killed Harry at any point in the previous year and three months. Because of this, Delphi might not be waiting for Harry—she’s waiting for Voldemort. She wants to meet him, because the best way to break the prophecy is not to kill baby Harry, it’s to stop Voldemort from doing anything at all and to meet her father.