HARRY AND GINNY POTTER'S HOUSE, BEDROOM
HARRY wakes suddenly. Breathing deeply in the night.
He waits a moment. Calming himself. And then he feels intense pain in his forehead. In his scar.Around him, Dark Magic moves.
GINNY: Harry . . .
HARRY: It's fine. Go back to sleep.
GINNY: Lumos.The room is filled with light from her wand.
HARRY looks at her.
A nightmare?
HARRY: Yes.
GINNY: About what?
HARRY: The Dursleys — well, it started there — then it became something else.
Pause. GINNY looks at him — trying to work out where he is.
GINNY: Do you want a Sleeping Draught?
HARRY: No. I'll be fine. Go back to sleep.
GINNY: You don't seem fine.
HARRY says nothing.
(Seeing his agitation.) It can't have been easy — with Amos Diggory.
HARRY: The anger I can cope with, the fact he's right is harder. Amos lost his son because of me —
GINNY:That doesn't seem particularly fair on yourself . . .
HARRY: — and there's nothing I can say — nothing I can say to anyone — unless it's the wrong thing, ofcourse . . .
GINNY knows what — or rather who — he's referring to.
GINNY: So that's what's upsetting you? The night before Hogwarts, it's never a good night if you don'twant to go. Giving Al the blanket. It was a nice try.
HARRY: It went pretty badly wrong from there. I said some things, Ginny . . .
GINNY: I heard.
HARRY: And you're still talking to me?
GINNY: Because I know that when the time is right you'll say sorry. That you didn't mean it. That what yousaid concealed . . . other things. You can be honest with him, Harry . . . That's all he needs.
HARRY: I just wish he was more like James or Lily.
GINNY (dry): Yeah, maybe don't be that honest.
HARRY: No, I wouldn't change a thing about him . . . but I can understand them, and . . .
GINNY: Albus is different and isn't that a good thing. And he can tell, you know, when you're putting onyour Harry Potter front. He wants to see the real you.
HARRY: "The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
GINNY looks at him, surprised.
Dumbledore.
GINNY: A strange thing to say to a child.
HARRY: Not when you believe that child will have to die to save the world.
HARRY gasps again — and does all he can not to touch his forehead.
GINNY: Harry. What's wrong?
HARRY: Fine. I'm fine. I hear you. I'll try to be —
GINNY: 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.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Rewrite
FanfictionWhat if Scorpius Malfoy was a girl? I didn't like the cursed child much but I got this idea way before the Cursed Child so here it is. DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER, IF I DID I WOULDN'T BE ON WATTPAD
