DUDLEY DURSLEY: Look. At. Him.

UNCLE VERNON: Stand back. Stand back. Behind me, Petunia. Behind me, Dudley. Ill soon see this scarramanger off.

HAGRID: Scarrawhat?

He picks up UNCLE VERNONs gun.

Havent seen one of these for a while.

He twists the end of the gun and ties it in a knot.

Oops-a-daisy.

And then he gets distracted. Hes seen YOUNG HARRY.

Harry Potter.

YOUNG HARRY: Hello.

HAGRID: Las time I saw yeh, yeh was only a baby. Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yehve got yer mums eyes.

YOUNG HARRY: You knew my parents?

HAGRID: Wheres me manners? A very happy birthday to yeh. Got summat fer yeh here - I mighta sat on it at some point, but itll taste all right.

From inside his coat he pulls a slightly squashed chocolate cake with "Happy Birthday Harry" written on it in green icing.

YOUNG HARRY: Who are you?

HAGRID (laughing): True, I havent introduced meself. Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts. (He looks around himself.) What about that tea, then, eh? Id not say no ter summat stronger if yehve got it, mind.

YOUNG HARRY: Hogwhere?

HAGRID: Hogwarts. Yehll know all about Hogwarts, o course.

YOUNG HARRY: Er - no. Sorry.

HAGRID: Sorry? Its them as should be sorry! I knew yeh werent gettin yer letters but I never thought yeh wouldnt even know abou Hogwarts, fer cryin out loud! Did yeh never wonder where yer parents learnt it all?

YOUNG HARRY: Learnt what?

HAGRID turns menacingly towards UNCLE VERNON.

HAGRID: Do you mean ter tell me, that this boy - this boy! - knows nothin abou - about ANYTHING?

UNCLE VERNON: I forbid you to tell the boy anything more!

YOUNG HARRY: Tell me what?

HAGRID looks at UNCLE VERNON and then at YOUNG HARRY.

HAGRID: Harry - yer a wizard - yeh changed everything. Yer the most famous wizard in the whole world.

And then, right from the back of the room, whispering around everyone.

Words said with an unmistakable voice. The voice of VOLDEMORT . . .

Haaarry Pottttter.

ACT ONE, SCENE NINE.

HARRY AND GINNY POTTERS 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: Its 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. Ill be fine. Go back to sleep.

GINNY: You dont seem fine.

HARRY says nothing.

(Seeing his agitation.) It cant have been easy - with Amos Diggory.

HARRY: The anger I can cope with, the fact hes right is harder. Amos lost his son because of me - GINNY: That doesnt seem particularly fair on yourself . . .

HARRY: - and theres nothing I can say - nothing I can say to anyone - unless its the wrong thing, of course . . .

GINNY knows what - or rather who - hes referring to.

GINNY: So thats whats upsetting you? The night before Hogwarts, its never a good night if you dont want 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 youre still talking to me?

GINNY: Because I know that when the time is right youll say sorry. That you didnt mean it. That what you said concealed . . . other things. You can be honest with him, Harry . . . Thats all he needs.

HARRY: I just wish he was more like James or Lily.

GINNY (dry): Yeah, maybe dont be that honest.

HARRY: No, I wouldnt change a thing about him . . . but I can understand them, and . . .

GINNY: Albus is different and isnt that a good thing. And he can tell, you know, when youre putting on your 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. Whats wrong?

HARRY: Fine. Im fine. I hear you. Ill try to be - GINNY: Does your scar hurt?

HARRY: No. No. Im fine. Now, Nox that and lets 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.

ACT ONE, SCENE TEN.

THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS.

ALBUS walks quickly along the train.

ROSE: Albus, Ive been looking for you . . .

ALBUS: Me? Why?

ROSE isnt sure how to phrase what she has to say.

ROSE: Albus, its the start of the fourth year, and so the start of a new year for us. I want to be friends again.

ALBUS: We never were friends.

ROSE: Thats harsh! You were my best friend when I was six!

ALBUS: That was a long time ago.

He makes to walk away. She pulls him into an empty compartment.

ROSE: Have you heard the rumors? Big Ministry raid a few days ago. Your dad apparently was incredibly brave.

ALBUS: How do you always know about these things and I dont?

ROSE: Apparently he - the wizard they raided - Theodore Nott, I think - had all sorts of artifacts that broke all sorts of laws including - and this has got them all gooey - an illegal Time-Turner. And quite a superior one at that.

ALBUS looks at ROSE, everything falling into place.

ALBUS: A Time-Turner? Dad found a Time-Turner?

ROSE: Shh! Yes. I know. Great, right?

ALBUS: Youre sure.

ROSE: Entirely.

ALBUS: Now I have to find Scorpius.