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ACT FOUR, SCENE NINE

GODRIC’S HOLLOW, ST. JEROME’S CHURCH, SANCTUARY, 1981

ALBUS is sleeping in a pew. GINNY watches him carefully. HARRY is looking out the opposite window.

HARRY: No. Nothing. Why isn’t she here?GINNY: We’re together, your mum and dad are alive — we can turn time, Harry, we can’t speed it up. She’ll come when she’s ready, and we’ll be ready for her.She looks at ALBUS’s sleeping form.Or some of us will be.HARRY: Poor kid thought he had to save the world.GINNY: Poor kid has saved the world. That blanket was masterful. I mean, he also almost destroyed the world, but probably best not to focus on that bit.HARRY: You think he’s okay?GINNY: He’s getting there, it just might take him a bit of time — and you a bit of time too.HARRY smiles. She looks back at ALBUS. HARRY does too.You know, after I’d opened the Chamber of Secrets — after Voldemort had bewitched me with that terrible diary and I’d almost destroyed everything —HARRY: I remember.GINNY: After I came out of hospital — everyone ignored me, shut me out — other than, that is, the boy who had everything — who came across the Gryffindor common room and challenged me to a game of Exploding Snap. People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are — have always been — heroic in really quiet ways. My point is — after this is over, just remember if you could that sometimes people — but particularly children — just want someone to play Exploding Snap with.HARRY: You think that’s what we’re missing — Exploding Snap?GINNY: No. But the love I felt from you that day — I’m not sure Albus feels that.HARRY: I’d do anything for him.GINNY: Harry, you’d do anything for anybody. You were pretty happy to sacrifice yourself for the world. He needs to feel specific love. It’ll make him stronger, and you stronger too.HARRY: You know, it wasn’t until we thought Albus had gone that I truly understood what my mother was able to do for me. A countercharm so powerful that it was able to repel the spell of death.GINNY: And the only spell Voldemort couldn’t understand — love.HARRY: I do love him specifically, Ginny.GINNY: I know, but he needs to feel it.HARRY: I’m lucky to have you, aren’t I?GINNY: Extremely. And I’d be delighted to discuss just how lucky at another time. But for now — let’s focus on stopping Delphi.HARRY: We are running out of time.A thought occurs to GINNY.GINNY: Unless — Harry, has anyone thought — why has she picked now? Today?HARRY: Because this is the day that everything changed . . .GINNY: Right now you’re over a year old, am I right?HARRY: A year and three months.GINNY: That’s a year and three months she could have killed you in. Even now, she’s been in Godric’s Hollow for twenty-four hours. What’s she waiting for?HARRY: I’m still not entirely following —GINNY: What if she’s not waiting for you — she’s waiting for him . . . to stop him.HARRY: What?GINNY: Delphi’s picked tonight because he’s here — because her father is coming. She wants to meet him. Be with him, the father she loves. Voldemort’s problems started when he attacked you. If he hadn’t done that . . .HARRY: He’d have only got more powerful — the darkness would only have got darker.GINNY: The best way to break the prophecy is not to kill Harry Potter, it’s to stop Voldemort doing anything at all.