Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

by John Tiffany

You have a right to be angry. You all do. But this is not all Hermione’s fault. We don’t know how the witch got hold of the Time-Turner. Whether my son gave it to her. GINNY: Whether our son gave it her. Or whether it was stolen from him. GINNY joins HARRY on the stage. PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: Your solidarity is admirable, but it doesn’t make your negligence negligible. DRACO: Then it’s a negligence I too should face. DRACO walks up to the stage and stands beside GINNY. This is almost a Spartacus moment. There are gasps. Hermione and Harry have done nothing wrong but try and protect us all. If they’re guilty then I am too. HERMIONE looks across at her cohort — moved. RON determinedly joins them on the stage. RON: Just to say — I didn’t know about much of it so can’t take responsibility — and I’m pretty sure my kids had nothing to do with it — but if this lot are standing up here then so am I. GINNY: No one can know where they are — whether they’re together or apart. I trust that our sons will be doing all they can to stop her, but . . . HERMIONE: We haven’t given up. We’ve gone to the giants. The trolls. Everyone we can find. The Aurors are out flying, searching, talking to those who know secrets, following those who won’t reveal secrets. HARRY: But there is one truth we can’t escape: that somewhere in our past a witch is trying to rewrite everything we ever knew — and all we can do is wait — wait for the moment she either succeeds or fails. PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: And if she ...