ACT THREE, SCENE TWENTY-ONE

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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.