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John Tiffany
ALBUS pulls on HARRY’s robes. HARRY looks down. Do you think — what if I am — what if I’m put in Slytherin . . . HARRY: And what would be wrong with that? ALBUS: Slytherin is the House of the snake, of Dark Magic . . . It’s not a House of brave wizards. HARRY: Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
Rose. Remember to send Neville our love. ROSE: Mum, I can’t give a professor love!
What can I say? My parents were dentists, I was bound to rebel at some point. Forty is leaving it a little late, but .
This . . . is the last thing I had from my mum. The only thing. I was given to the Dursleys wrapped in it. I thought it had gone forever and then, when your great-aunt Petunia died, hidden amongst her possessions, surprisingly, Dudley found this and he kindly sent it on to me, and ever since then — well, anytime I’ve wanted luck I’ve found it
Harry — yer a wizard — yeh changed everything. Yer the most famous wizard in the whole world.
Does your scar hurt? HARRY: No. No. I’m fine. Now, Nox that and let’s get some sleep. GINNY: Harry. How long has it been since your scar hurt? HARRY turns to GINNY, his face says it all. HARRY: Twenty-two years.
Albus Severus Potter,
First question. What do you know about the Triwizard Tournament? SCORPIUS (happy): Ooooh, a quiz! Three schools pick three champions to compete in three tasks for one Cup. What’s that got to do with anything? ALBUS: You really are an enormous geek, you know that? SCORPIUS: Ya-huh. ALBUS: Second question. Why has the Triwizard Tournament not been run in over twenty years?
Okay, whatever was holding your brain together seems to have snapped.
Never — never — have I let anyone off this train before they reached their destination. Some have tried — Sirius Black and his cronies, Fred and George Weasley.
ALBUS/RON: You know, he hides it well, but Uncle Ron’s got a bit of a gut growing.
HERMIONE: Where would Hermione hide a Time-Turner? (She looks around the room, she sees the bookcases.) Search the bookcases.
Have you seen the books on these shelves? There are some serious books here. Banned books. Cursed books. ALBUS/RON: How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library.
A Patronus is a magical charm, a projection of all your most positive feelings, and takes the shape of the animal with whom you share the deepest affinity. It is a gift of light. If you can conjure a Patronus, you can protect yourself against the world. Which, in some of our cases, seems like a necessity sooner rather than later.
Keep up, old man. HARRY: We’re the same age, Draco. DRACO: I wear it better.
People say parenting is the hardest job in the world — they’re wrong — growing up is. We all just forget how hard it was.
Cedric Diggory killed only one wizard and not a significant one — Neville Longbottom.
Expecto Patronum! SNAPE sends forward a Patronus, and it’s a beautiful white shape of a doe. SCORPIUS: A doe? Lily’s Patronus. SNAPE: Strange, isn’t it? What comes from within.
Thank you for being my light in the darkness. SNAPE looks at him, every inch a hero, he softly smiles. SNAPE: Tell Albus — tell Albus Severus — I’m proud he carries my name. Now go. Go.
but the lesson even your father sometimes failed to heed is that bravery doesn’t forgive stupidity.
No friends. Neither of them. YOUNG HARRY: So my question is — why are there so many flowers? Why are there flowers all over their grave? AUNT PETUNIA looks around, she sees all the flowers as if for the first time and it moves her hugely. She approaches and then sits by her sister’s grave, trying hard to fight the emotions as they come to her but succumbing all the same.
If this is your way of saying you want a marital break, Ron, then, to be clear, I will skewer you with this quill.
ALBUS: The Bathilda Bagshot? A History of Magic Bathilda Bagshot? SCORPIUS: The very same. Oh my, that’s her. Wow. Squeak. My geekness is a-quivering.
I have never loved without causing harm.
HARRY: What did you want to do? DRACO: Quidditch. But I wasn’t good enough. Mainly I wanted to be happy.
DRACO: Which is why you need this. I have been holding on to it, barely resisting using it, even though I would sell my soul for another minute with Astoria.
DRACO: We can hug too if you like . . . SCORPIUS looks at his dad, unsure for a moment. And then they sort of half hug in a very awkward way. DRACO smiles.
DRACO: Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger. (She turns towards him. He smiles.) And I’m mildly enjoying it.
HARRY: A lot of people have tried to hurt me — but my son! You dare hurt my son!
SCORPIUS: I can’t quite believe I did that. ALBUS: I can’t quite believe you did that either. SCORPIUS: Rose Granger-Weasley. I asked out Rose Granger-Weasley. ALBUS: And she said no. SCORPIUS: But I asked her. I planted the acorn. The acorn that will grow into our eventual marriage.
ALBUS: I honestly thought I’d be the first of us to get a girlfriend. SCORPIUS: Oh, you will, undoubtedly, probably that new smoky-eyed Potions professor — she’s old enough for you, right? ALBUS: I don’t have a thing about older women! SCORPIUS: And you’ve got time — a lot of time — to seduce her. Because Rose is going to take years to persuade. ALBUS: I admire your confidence.
This is only going to be weird if you let it be weird. SCORPIUS: Received and entirely understood. ROSE: Okay. “Scorpion King.” She walks off with a smile on her face. SCORPIUS and ALBUS look at each other. ALBUS grins and punches SCORPIUS on the arm. ALBUS: Maybe you’re right — pity is a start.
Albus Dumbledore had his trials too, you know — and Severus Snape, well, you know all about him — ALBUS: They were good men. HARRY: They were great men, with huge flaws, and you know what — those flaws almost made them greater.
