Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

rolls quickly away and slams a spell into one door and then another.

But we are.

ALBUS

opens both doors with his wand.

ALBUS: Alohomora! Alohomora!

HARRY: I’ve never fought alone, you see. And I never will.

And

HERMIONE

,

RON

,

GINNY

, and

DRACO

emerge from the doors, and fire up their spells at

DELPHI

, who screams out in exasperation. This is titanic. But she can’t fight them all.

There are a series of bangs — and then, overwhelmed,

DELPHI

tumbles to the floor.

DELPHI: No . . . No . . .

HERMIONE: Brachiabindo!

She’s bound.

HARRY

advances towards

DELPHI

. He doesn’t take his eyes off her. All the others stay back.

HARRY: Albus, are you okay?

ALBUS: Yes, Dad, I’m okay.

HARRY

still doesn’t take his eyes off

DELPHI

. He’s still scared of her.

HARRY: Ginny, has he been injured? I need to know he’s safe . . .

GINNY: He insisted. He was the only one small enough to crawl through the grate. I tried to stop him.

HARRY: Just tell me he’s okay.

ALBUS: I’m fine, Dad. I promise.

HARRY

keeps advancing towards

DELPHI

.

HARRY: A lot of people have tried to hurt me — but my son! You dare hurt my son!

DELPHI: I only wanted to know my father.

These words take

HARRY

by surprise.

HARRY: You can’t remake your life. You’ll always be an orphan. That never leaves you.

DELPHI: Just let me — see him.

HARRY: I can’t and I won’t.

DELPHI (truly pitiful): Then kill me.

HARRY

thinks a moment.

HARRY: I can’t do that either.

ALBUS: What? Dad? She’s dangerous.

HARRY: No, Albus . . .

ALBUS: But she’s a murderer — I’ve seen her murder —

HARRY

turns and looks at his son and then at

GINNY

.

HARRY: Yes. Albus, she’s a murderer, and we’re not.

HERMIONE: We have to be better than them.

RON: Yeah, it’s annoying but it’s what we learnt.

DELPHI: Take my mind. Take my memory. Make me forget who I am.

RON: No. We’ll take you back to our time.

HERMIONE: And you’ll go to Azkaban. Same as your mother.

DRACO: Where you’ll rot.

HARRY

hears a noise. A hissing noise.

And then there is a noise like death — a noise like nothing else we’ve heard before.

Haaarry Pottttter . . .

SCORPIUS: What’s that?

HARRY: No. No. Not yet.

ALBUS: What?

RON: Voldemort.

DELPHI: Father?

HERMIONE: Now? Here?

DELPHI: Father!

DRACO: Silencio! (DELPHI is gagged.) Wingardium Leviosa! (She is sent upwards and away.)

HARRY: He’s coming. He’s coming right now.

VOLDEMORT

comes through the back of the stage, and across it, and walks down into the auditorium. He brings death with him. And everyone knows it.

ACT FOUR, SCENE TWELVE

GODRIC’S HOLLOW, 1981

HARRY looks after VOLDEMORT helplessly.

HARRY: Voldemort is going to kill my mum and dad — and there’s nothing I can do to stop him.

DRACO: That’s not true.

SCORPIUS: Dad, now is not the time . . .

ALBUS: There is something you could do — to stop him. But you won’t.

DRACO: That’s heroic.

GINNY

takes

HARRY

’s hand.

GINNY: You don’t have to watch, Harry. We can go home.

HARRY: I’m letting it happen . . . Of course I have to watch.

HERMIONE: Then we’ll all witness it.

RON: We’ll all watch.

We hear unfamiliar voices . . .

JAMES (from off): Lily, take Harry and go! It’s him! Go! Run! I’ll hold him off . . .

There is a blast, and then a laugh.

You keep away, you understand — you keep away.

VOLDEMORT (from off): Avada Kedavra!

HARRY

flinches as green light flashes around the auditorium.

ALBUS

takes his hand.

HARRY

grasps hold of it. He needs it.

ALBUS: He did everything he could.

GINNY

rises beside him and takes

HARRY

’s other hand. He leans into them, they’re holding him up now.

HARRY: That’s my mum, at the window. I can see my mother, she looks beautiful.

There’s the sound of banging as doors are blasted off.

LILY (from off): Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry . . .