Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition). Дж. К. Роулинг
in her emphasis; he nods.
How’s Ginny? How’s Albus?
HARRY
It seems I’m as good at fatherhood as I am at paperwork. How’s Rose? How’s Hugo?
HERMIONE (with a grin)
You know, Ron says he thinks I see more of my secretary Ethel (she indicates off) than him. Do you think there’s a point where we made a choice – parent of the year or – Ministry official of the year? Go on. Go home to your family Harry, the Hogwarts Express is about to depart for another year – enjoy the time you’ve got left – and then come back here with a fresh head and get these files read.
HARRY
You really think this could all mean something?
HERMIONE (with a smile)
It could do. But if it does, we’ll find a way to fight it, Harry. We always have.
She smiles once more – pops a toffee in her mouth and leaves the office. HARRY is left alone. He packs his bag. He walks out of the office and down a corridor. The weight of the world upon his shoulders.
He walks, tired, into a telephone box. He dials 62442.
TELEPHONE BOX
Farewell, Harry Potter.
He ascends away from the Ministry of Magic.
ACT ONE
SCENE SIX
ALBUS can’t sleep. He is sitting at the top of the stairs. He hears voices below him. We hear HARRY’s voice before he’s revealed. An elderly man in a wheelchair is with him, AMOS DIGGORY.
HARRY
Amos, I understand, I really do – but I’m only just home and—
AMOS
I’ve tried to make appointments at the Ministry. They say ‘Ah, Mr Diggory, we have an appointment for you, let’s see, in two months.’ I wait. Very patiently.
HARRY
– and coming to my house in the middle of the night – when my kids are just getting ready for their new year at school – it’s not right.
AMOS
Two months pass, I receive an owl, ‘Mr Diggory, I’m awfully sorry, but Mr Potter has been called away on urgent business, we’re going to have to shift things around a little, are you available for an appointment in, let’s see, two months’ time.’ And then it repeats again, and again. . You’re shutting me out.
HARRY
Of course I’m not. It’s just, I’m afraid, as Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement I’m responsible—
AMOS
There’s plenty you’re responsible for.
HARRY
Sorry?
AMOS
My son, Cedric, you do remember Cedric, don’t you?
HARRY (remembering Cedric hurts him)
Yes, I remember your son. His loss—
AMOS
Voldemort wanted you! Not my son! You told me yourself, the words he said were ‘kill the spare’. The spare. My son, my beautiful son, was a spare.
HARRY
Mr Diggory, as you know, I sympathise with your efforts to memorialise Cedric but—
AMOS
A memorial? I am not interested in a memorial – not any more. I am an old man – an old, dying man – and I am here to ask you – beg you – to help me get him back.
HARRY looks up, astonished.
HARRY
Get him back? Amos, that’s not possible.
AMOS
The Ministry has a Time-Turner does it not?
HARRY
The Time-Turners were all destroyed.
AMOS
The reason I’m here with such urgency is I’ve just heard rumour – strong rumour – that the Ministry seized an illegal Time-Turner from Theodore Nott and has kept it. For investigation. Let me use that Time-Turner. Let me have my son back.
There’s a long, deadly pause. HARRY is finding this extremely difficult. We watch as ALBUS moves closer, listening.
HARRY
Amos, playing with time? You know we can’t do that.
AMOS
How many people have died for the Boy Who Lived? I’m asking you to save one of them.
This hurts HARRY. He thinks, his face hardens.
HARRY
Whatever you’ve heard – the Theodore Nott story is a fiction, Amos. I’m sorry.
DELPHI
Hello.
ALBUS jumps a mile as DELPHI – a twenty-something determined-looking woman – is revealed looking through the stairs at him.
Oh. Sorry. Didn’t mean to startle. I used to be a big stair-listener myself. Sitting there. Waiting for someone to say something the tiniest bit interesting.
ALBUS
Who are you? Because this is sort of my house and. .
DELPHI
I’m a thief of course. I’m about to steal everything you own. Give me your gold, your wand and your Chocolate Frogs! (She looks fierce and then smiles.) Either that or I’m Delphini Diggory. (She ascends the stairs and sticks out a hand.) Delphi. I look after him – Amos – well, I try. (She indicates AMOS.) And you are?
ALBUS (rueful grin)
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