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?
HARRY: You know I did.
GINNY: What did you say to our son, Harry?
HARRY can hear the accusation in her voice.
HARRY: I tried to be honest like you said — I didn’t say anything.
GINNY: And you controlled yourself? How heated did it get?
HARRY: . . . I don’t think I . . . You think I’ve scared him away again?
GINNY: I can forgive you for one mistake, Harry, maybe even two, but the more mistakes you make, the harder to forgive you it becomes.
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ACT THREE, SCENE SIXTEEN
HOGWARTS, OWLERY
SCORPIUS and ALBUS emerge onto a roof bathed in silver light. There’s soft hooting all around them.
SCORPIUS: So I think a simple Confringo.
ALBUS: Definitely not. For something like this you need Expulso.
SCORPIUS: Expulso? Expulso and we’ll be clearing bits of Time-Turner from this owlery for days.
ALBUS: Bombarda?
SCORPIUS: And wake up everyone in Hogwarts? Maybe Stupefy. They were originally destroyed using Stupefy . . .
ALBUS: Exactly, it’s been done before — let’s do something new, something fun.
SCORPIUS: Fun? Look, many wizards overlook the importance of choosing the right spell, but this really matters. I think it’s a much-underestimated part of modern witchcraft.
DELPHI: “A much-underestimated part of modern witchcraft” — you two are the greatest, you know that?
SCORPIUS looks up, surprised to see DELPHI has emerged behind them.
SCORPIUS: Wow. You’re . . . um . . . What are you doing here?
ALBUS: It felt important to send an owl — let her know what we’re doing, you know?
SCORPIUS looks at his friend accusingly.
This concerns her too.
SCORPIUS thinks, and then nods, accepting this.
DELPHI: What concerns me? What’s this about?
ALBUS gets out the Time-Turner.
ALBUS: We need to destroy the Time-Turner. The things Scorpius saw after the second task . . . I’m so sorry. We can’t risk going back again. We can’t save your cousin.
DELPHI looks at it and then at them both.
DELPHI: Your owl said so little . . .
ALBUS: Imagine the worst possible world, and then double it. People being tortured, dementors everywhere, a despotic Voldemort, my dad dead, me never born, the world surrounded by Dark Magic — we just, we can’t allow that to happen.