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ACT TWO, SCENE FOURTEEN

HOGWARTS, STAIRCASES

SCORPIUS walks unhappily down a staircase.

DELPHI scurries in from the other side.

DELPHI: So — technically — I shouldn’t be here.SCORPIUS: Delphi?DELPHI: In fact, technically I’m endangering our entire operation . . . which is not . . . well, I’m not a natural risk-taker as you know. I’ve never been to Hogwarts. Pretty lax security here, isn’t there? And so many portraits. And corridors. And ghosts! This half-headless, strange-looking ghost told me where I could find you, can you believe that?SCORPIUS: You’ve never been to Hogwarts?DELPHI: I was — unwell — as a child — for a few years. Other people got to go — I did not.SCORPIUS: You were too — ill? I’m sorry, I didn’t know that.DELPHI: I don’t advertise the fact — I prefer not to be seen as a tragic case, you know?This registers with SCORPIUS. He looks up to say something but DELPHI suddenly ducks from view as a student walks past. SCORPIUS tries to look casual until the student passes.Have they gone?SCORPIUS: Delphi, maybe it is too dangerous for you to be here —DELPHI: Well — someone’s got to do something about this.SCORPIUS: Delphi, none of it worked, time-turning, we failed.DELPHI: I know. Albus owled me. The history books changed but not enough — Cedric still died. In fact, failing the first task only made him more determined to win the second.SCORPIUS: And Ron and Hermione have gone completely skewwhiff — and I still haven’t figured out why.DELPHI: And that’s why Cedric has to wait. It’s all become quite confused and you’re entirely right to be keeping hold of the Time-Turner, Scorpius. But what I meant was — someone’s got to do something about the two of you.SCORPIUS: Oh.DELPHI: You’re best friends. Every owl he sends I can feel your absence. He’s destroyed by it.SCORPIUS: Sounds like he’s found a shoulder to cry on. How many owls has he sent you now?DELPHI smiles softly.Sorry. That’s — I didn’t mean — I just — don’t understand what’s going on. I’ve tried to see him, talk to him, but every time I do he runs off.DELPHI: You know, I didn’t have a best friend when I was your age. I wanted one. Desperately. When I was younger I even invented one but —SCORPIUS: I had one of those too. Called Flurry. We fell out over the correct rules of Gobstones.DELPHI: Albus needs you, Scorpius. That’s a wonderful thing.SCORPIUS: He needs me to do what?DELPHI: That’s the thing, isn’t it? About friendships. You don’t know what he needs. You only know he needs it. Find him, Scorpius. You two — you belong together.