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 didnt say anything.

GINNY: And you controlled yourself? How heated did it get?

HARRY: . . . I dont think I . . . You think Ive 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. Theres 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 well 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, its been done before - lets do something new, something fun.

SCORPIUS: Fun? Look, many wizards overlook the importance of choosing the right spell, but this really matters. I think its 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. Youre . . . um . . . What are you doing here?

ALBUS: It felt important to send an owl - let her know what were doing, you know?

SCORPIUS looks at his friend accusingly.

This concerns her too.

SCORPIUS thinks, and then nods, accepting this.

DELPHI: What concerns me? Whats this about?

ALBUS gets out the Time-Turner.

ALBUS: We need to destroy the Time-Turner. The things Scorpius saw after the second task . . . Im so sorry. We cant risk going back again. We cant 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 cant allow that to happen.

DELPHI hesitates. And then her face breaks.

DELPHI: Voldemort ruled? He was alive?

SCORPIUS: He ruled everything. It was terrible.

DELPHI: Because of what we did?

SCORPIUS: Humiliating Cedric turned him into a very angry young man, and then he became a Death Eater and - and - it all went wrong. Really wrong.

DELPHI looks at SCORPIUSs face carefully. Her face sinks.

DELPHI: A Death Eater?

SCORPIUS: And a murderer. He killed Professor Longbottom.

DELPHI: Then - of course - we need to destroy it.

ALBUS: You understand?

DELPHI: Ill go further than that - Ill say Cedric would have understood. Well destroy it together, and then well go to my uncle. Explain the situation.

ALBUS: Thank you.

DELPHI smiles at them sadly, and then takes the Time-Turner. She looks at it and her expression changes slightly.

Oh, nice mark.

DELPHI: What?

DELPHIs cloak has loosened. An Augurey tattoo is visible on the back of her neck.

ALBUS: On your back. I hadnt noticed it before. The wings. Is that what the Muggles call a tattoo?

DELPHI: Oh. Yes. Well, its an Augurey.

SCORPIUS: An Augurey?

DELPHI: Havent you met them in Care of Magical Creatures? Theyre sinister-looking black birds that cry when rains coming. Wizards used to believe that the Augureys cry foretold death. When I was growing up my guardian kept one in a cage.

SCORPIUS: Your . . . guardian?

DELPHI looks at SCORPIUS, now she has the Time-Turner shes enjoying the game of this.

DELPHI: She used to say it was crying because it could see I was going to come to a sticky end. She didnt like me much. Euphemia Rowle . . . she only took me in for the gold.

ALBUS: Why would you want a tattoo of her bird, then?

DELPHI: It reminds me that the future is mine to make.

ALBUS: Cool. I might get an Augurey tattoo.

SCORPIUS: The Rowles were pretty extreme Death Eaters.

A thousand thoughts whir inside SCORPIUSs head.

ALBUS: Come on, lets get destroying . . . Confringo? Stupefy? Bombarda? Which would you use?

SCORPIUS: Give it back. Give us back the Time-Turner.

DELPHI: What?

ALBUS: Scorpius? What are you doing?

SCORPIUS: I dont believe you ever were ill. Why didnt you come to Hogwarts? Why are you here now?

DELPHI: Im trying to bring my cousin back!

SCORPIUS: They called you the Augurey. In - the other world - they called you the Augurey.

A slow smile grows on DELPHIs face.

DELPHI: The Augurey? I rather like that.

ALBUS: Delphi?

Shes too quick. Leveling her wand, she repels SCORPIUS, and she is far stronger. SCORPIUS tries to keep her back, but she quickly overpowers him.

DELPHI: Fulgari!

SCORPIUSs arms are bound in vicious, luminous cords.

SCORPIUS: Albus. Run!

ALBUS looks around, bewildered. And then starts to run.

DELPHI: Fulgari!

ALBUS is propelled to the floor, his hands tied by the same brutal binding.

And that is the first spell Ive had to use on you. I thought Id have to use plenty more. But youre far easier to control than Amos - children, particularly male children, are so naturally pliant, arent they? Now, lets sort this mess out once and for all . . .

ALBUS: But why? But what? But who are you?

DELPHI: Albus. I am the new past.

She pulls ALBUSs wand from him and snaps it.

I am the new future.

She pulls SCORPIUSs wand from him and snaps it.

I am the answer this world has been looking for.

ACT THREE, SCENE SEVENTEEN.

MINISTRY OF MAGIC, HERMIONES OFFICE.

RON is sitting on HERMIONEs desk eating porridge.

RON: I cant get over it, really. The fact that in some realities we arent even, you know, married.

HERMIONE: Ron, whatever this is, Ive got ten minutes until the goblins show up to talk security at Gringotts - RON: I mean, weve been together so long - and married for so long - I mean, so long - HERMIONE: If this is your way of saying you want a marital break, Ron, then, to be clear, I will skewer you with this quill.

RON: Shut up. Will you shut up for once? I want to do one of those marriage renewal things Ive read about. Marriage renewal. What do you think?

HERMIONE (melting slightly): You want to marry me again?