The play’s central plot centers around the use of time-turners, magical time-traveling devices, allowing the play to travel down memory lane and revisit pivotal characters and moments from the novels. In this way, the play does fall into moments of fan service but is able to dig itself out by returning the focus to its two young protagonists.

The Fine Arts Center at Van Buren High School is slowly transforming into the wizarding world of "Harry Potter," with potion bottles and 3D-printed wands scattered backstage, ready to be picked up by enthusiastic theater students practicing their spells.