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ACT ONE, SCENE NINE

HARRY AND GINNY POTTER’S HOUSE, BEDROOM

HARRY wakes suddenly. Breathing deeply in the night.

He waits a moment. Calming himself. And then he feels intense pain in his forehead. In his scar. Around him, Dark Magic moves.

GINNY: Harry . . .HARRY: It’s fine. Go back to sleep.GINNY: Lumos.The room is filled with light from her wand. HARRY looks at her.A nightmare?HARRY: Yes.GINNY: About what?HARRY: The Dursleys — well, it started there — then it became something else.Pause. GINNY looks at him — trying to work out where he is.GINNY: Do you want a Sleeping Draught?HARRY: No. I’ll be fine. Go back to sleep.GINNY: You don’t seem fine.HARRY says nothing.(Seeing his agitation.) It can’t have been easy — with Amos Diggory.HARRY: The anger I can cope with, the fact he’s right is harder. Amos lost his son because of me —GINNY: That doesn’t seem particularly fair on yourself . . .HARRY: — and there’s nothing I can say — nothing I can say to anyone — unless it’s the wrong thing, of course . . .GINNY knows what — or rather who — he’s referring to.GINNY: So that’s what’s upsetting you? The night before Hogwarts, it’s never a good night if you don’t want to go. Giving Al the blanket. It was a nice try.HARRY: It went pretty badly wrong from there. I said some things, Ginny . . .GINNY: I heard.HARRY: And you’re still talking to me?GINNY: Because I know that when the time is right you’ll say sorry. That you didn’t mean it. That what you said concealed . . . other things. You can be honest with him, Harry . . . That’s all he needs.HARRY: I just wish he was more like James or Lily.GINNY (dry): Yeah, maybe don’t be that honest.HARRY: No, I wouldn’t change a thing about him . . . but I can understand them, and . . .GINNY: Albus is different and isn’t that a good thing. And he can tell, you know, when you’re putting on your Harry Potter front. He wants to see the real you.HARRY: “The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”GINNY looks at him, surprised.Dumbledore.GINNY: A strange thing to say to a child.HARRY: Not when you believe that child will have to die to save the world.HARRY gasps again — and does all he can not to touch his forehead.GINNY: Harry. What’s wrong?HARRY: Fine. I’m fine. I hear you. I’ll try to be —GINNY: Does your scar hurt?HARRY: No. No. I’m fine. Now, Nox that and let’s get some sleep.GINNY: Harry. How long has it been since your scar hurt?HARRY turns to GINNY, his face says it all.HARRY: Twenty-two years.