Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Rewrite

ACT TWO, SCENE SIX

EDGE OF THE FORBIDDEN FOREST 

OLIVIA and ALBUS round a corner to be faced with a gap in the trees . . .A gap through which is visible . . . a glorious light . . . 

OLIVIA: And there it is . . . 

ALBUS: Hogwarts. Never seen this view of it before. 

OLIVIA: Still get a tingle, don't you? When you see it? 

And revealed through the trees is HOGWARTS — a splendid mass of bulbous buildings and towers. 

From the moment I first heard of it, I was desperate to go. I mean, Dad didn't much like it there buteven the way he described it . . . From the age of ten I'd check the Daily Prophet first thing everymorning — certain some sort of tragedy would have befallen it — certain I wouldn't get to go. 

ALBUS: And then you got there and it turned out to be terrible after all. 

OLIVIA: Not for me. 

ALBUS looks at his friend, shocked. 

All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just likeHarry Potter. And I got his son. How crazily fortunate is that. 

ALBUS: But I'm nothing like my dad. 

OLIVIA: You're better. You're my best friend, Albus. And this is mayhem to the nth degree. Which isgreat, thumbs-up great, it's just — I have got to say — I don't mind admitting — I am a tiny bit —just a tiny bit scared. 

ALBUS looks at OLIVIA and smiles. 

ALBUS: You're my best friend too. And don't worry — I have a good feeling about this. 

We hear RON's voice from off — he's clearly in close proximity. 

RON: Albus? Albus. 

ALBUS turns towards it, scared. 

ALBUS: But we've got to go — now. 

ALBUS takes the Time-Turner from OLIVIA — he presses down upon it and the Time-Turner beginsto vibrate and then explodes into a storm of movement. 

And with it the stage starts to transform. 

The two look at it.And there is a giant whoosh of light. 

A smash of noise.And time stops. 

And then it turns over, thinks a bit, and begins spooling backwards, slow at first . ..And then it speeds up.