She pulls him back. VOLDEMORT’s hand rises into the air above the Potters’ gravestone, the rest of him rises after. We don’t see his face but his body provides a jagged, horrific shape.
I knew it. This place is dangerous. The sooner we leave Godric’s Hollow the better.
YOUNG HARRY is pulled from the stage, but turns to face VOLDEMORT.
VOLDEMORT: Do you still see with my eyes, Harry Potter?
YOUNG HARRY exits, disturbed, as ALBUS bursts from within VOLDEMORT’s cloak. He reaches out a desperate hand towards his dad.
ALBUS: Dad . . . Dad . . .
There are some words spoken in Parseltongue.
He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming.
And then a scream.
And then, right from the back of the room, whispering around everyone.
Words said with an unmistakable voice. The voice of VOLDEMORT . . .
Haaarry Pottttter.
ACT THREE, SCENE THIRTEEN
HARRY AND GINNY POTTER’S HOUSE, KITCHEN
HARRY is in a horrible state. Petrified by what he thinks his dreams are telling him.
GINNY: Harry? Harry? What is it? You were screaming . . .
HARRY: They haven’t stopped. The dreams.
GINNY: They weren’t likely to stop immediately. It’s been a stressful time and —
HARRY: But I was never in Godric’s Hollow with Petunia. This doesn’t —
GINNY: Harry, you’re really scaring me.
HARRY: He’s still here, Ginny.
GINNY: Who’s still here?
HARRY: Voldemort. I saw Voldemort and Albus.
GINNY: And Albus . . . ?
HARRY: He said — Voldemort said — “I smell guilt, there is a stench of guilt upon the air.” He was talking to me.
HARRY looks at her. He touches his scar. Her face falls.
GINNY: Harry, is Albus still in danger?
HARRY’s face grows white.
HARRY: I think we all are.
ACT THREE, SCENE FOURTEEN
HOGWARTS, SLYTHERIN DORMITORY
SCORPIUS leans ominously over ALBUS’s headboard.
SCORPIUS: Albus . . . Psst . . . Albus.
ALBUS doesn’t wake.
ALBUS!
ALBUS wakes with a shock. SCORPIUS laughs.
ALBUS: Pleasant. That’s a pleasant and not scary way to wake up.
SCORPIUS: You know it’s the strangest of things, but ever since being in the scariest place imaginable I’m pretty much good with fear. I am — Scorpius the Dreadless. I am — Malfoy the Unanxious.
ALBUS: Good.
SCORPIUS: I mean, normally, being in lockdown, being in constant detention, it’d break me, but now — what’s the worst they can do? Bring back Moldy Voldy and have him torture me? Nope.
ALBUS: You’re scary when you’re in a good mood, you know that?
SCORPIUS: When Rose came up to me today in Potions and called me Bread Head I almost hugged her. No, there’s no almost about it, I actually tried to hug her, and then she kicked me in the shin.
ALBUS: I’m not sure being fearless is going to be good for your health.
SCORPIUS looks at ALBUS, his face grows more contemplative.
SCORPIUS: You don’t know how good it is to be back here, Albus. I hated it there.
ALBUS: Apart from the Polly Chapman fancying you bits.
SCORPIUS: Cedric was a different person entirely — dark, dangerous. My dad — doing anything they wanted him to. And me? I discovered another Scorpius, you know? Entitled, angry, mean — people were frightened of me. It feels like we were all tested and we all — failed.
ALBUS: But you changed things. You had a chance and you changed time back. Changed yourself back.
SCORPIUS: Only because I knew what I should be.
ALBUS digests this.
ALBUS: Do you think I’ve been tested too? I have, haven’t I?
SCORPIUS: No. Not yet.
ALBUS: You’re wrong. The stupid thing wasn’t going back once — anyone can make that mistake — the stupid thing was being arrogant enough to go back twice.
SCORPIUS: We both went back, Albus.
ALBUS: And why was I so determined to do this? Cedric? Really? No. I had something to prove. My dad’s right — he didn’t volunteer for adventure — me, this, it’s all my fault—and if it wasn’t for you everything could have gone Dark.
SCORPIUS: But it didn’t. And you’re to thank for that as much as me. When the dementors were — inside my head — Severus Snape told me to think of you. You may not have been there, Albus, but you were fighting — fighting alongside me.
ALBUS nods. Touched by this.
And saving Cedric — that wasn’t such a bad idea — not in my head, anyway — though, you know, right — that we definitely can’t try again.
ALBUS: Yes. I do. I do know that.
SCORPIUS: Good. Then you can help me destroy this.
SCORPIUS reveals the Time-Turner to ALBUS.
ALBUS: I’m pretty sure you told everyone that was on the bottom of a lake.
SCORPIUS: Turns out Malfoy the Unanxious is a pretty good liar.
ALBUS: Scorpius . . . We should tell someone about this . . .
SCORPIUS: Who? The Ministry kept it before, do you really trust them not to keep it again? Only you and I have experienced how dangerous this is, that means you and I have to destroy it. No one can do what we did, Albus. No one. No, (slightly grandly) it’s time that time-turning became a thing of the past.
ALBUS: You’re quite proud of that phrase, aren’t you?
SCORPIUS: Been working on it all day.
ACT THREE, SCENE FIFTEEN
HOGWARTS, SLYTHERIN DORMITORY
HARRY and GINNY move quickly through the dormitory. CRAIG BOWKER JR. trails after them.
CRAIG BOWKER JR.: Can I repeat again? This is against the rules and it’s the middle of the night.
HARRY: I need to find my son.
CRAIG BOWKER JR.: I know who you are, Mr. Potter, but even you must understand that it’s against school covenant for parents or professors to enter a House quarters without express permission from . . .
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL charges in behind them.
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: Please don’t be tiresome, Craig.
HARRY: You got our message? Good.
CRAIG BOWKER JR. (shocked): Headmistress. I’m — I was just —
HARRY pulls open a bed-curtain.
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: He’s gone?
HARRY: Yes.
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: And young Malfoy?
GINNY pulls open another.
GINNY: Oh no.
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: Then let’s turn this school upside down. Craig, we’ve work to do . . .
GINNY and HARRY stay, looking at the bed.
GINNY: Haven’t we been here before?
HARRY: Something feels even worse this time.
GINNY looks at her husband, full of fear.
GINNY: You spoke to him earlier?
HARRY: Yes.
GINNY: You came to his dorm and talked to him?