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ACT THREE, SCENE TWENTY-ONE

ST. OSWALD’S HOME FOR OLD WITCHES AND WIZARDS, DELPHI’S ROOM

HARRY, HERMIONE, RON, DRACO, and GINNY look around a simple oak-paneled room.

HARRY: It must have been a Confundus Charm she used on him. Used on them all. She faked being a nurse, she faked being his niece.HERMIONE: I’ve just checked in with the Ministry — but there’s no record of her. She’s a shadow.DRACO: Specialis Revelio!Everyone turns to look at DRACO.Well, it was worth a try, what are you waiting for? We know nothing, so we just have to hope this room reveals something.GINNY: Where can she have hidden anything? It’s quite a spartan room.RON: These panels, these panels must conceal something.DRACO: Or the bed does.DRACO starts examining the bed, GINNY a lamp, as the rest start examining the wooden wall panels.RON (shouting as he hammers on the walls): What you hiding? What you got?HERMIONE: Maybe we should all stop for a moment and have a think about what —GINNY unscrews a chimney from an oil lamp. There’s a breathing-out noise. And then hissing words. They all turn towards it.What was that?HARRY: That’s — I’m not supposed to be understanding — that’s Parseltongue.HERMIONE: And what does it say?HARRY: How do I . . . ? I haven’t been able to understand Parseltongue since Voldemort died.HERMIONE: And nor has your scar hurt.HARRY looks at HERMIONE.HARRY: It says “Welcome, Augurey.” I think I need to tell it to open . . .DRACO: Then do it.HARRY shuts his eyes. He speaks in Parseltongue.The room transforms around them, becoming darker and more desperate. A writhing mass of painted snakes emerges on all the walls.And on them, written in fluorescent paint, a prophecy.What is this?RON: “When spares are spared, when time is turned, when unseen children murder their fathers: Then will the Dark Lord return.”GINNY: A prophecy. A new prophecy.HERMIONE: Cedric — Cedric was called a spare.RON: When time is turned — she has that Time-Turner, doesn’t she?Their faces sink.HERMIONE: She must do.RON: But why does she need Scorpius or Albus?HARRY: Because I’m a parent — who hasn’t seen his child. Hasn’t understood his child.DRACO: Who is she? To be so obsessed with all this?GINNY: I think I’ve got the answer to that.They all turn to her. She points up . . . Their collective faces sink further and fill with fear.Words are revealed on all the walls of the auditorium — dangerous words, horrible words.“I will rebirth the Dark. I will bring my father back.”RON: No. She can’t . . .HERMIONE: How is it even — possible?DRACO: Voldemort had a daughter?They look up, terrified. GINNY takes HARRY’s hand.HARRY: No, no, no. Not that. Anything but that.Cut to black.