Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

gold.
And then CEDRIC starts to grow — and grow again — and grow some more. He looks
around himself — entirely panicked. And the boys watch as CEDRIC ascends helplessly
through the water.
But no, what’s this . . . Cedric Diggory is ascending out of the water and seemingly out of the
competition. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, we don’t have our winner but we certainly have our
loser. Cedric Diggory is turning into a balloon, and this balloon wants to fly. Fly, ladies and
gentlemen, fly. Fly out of the task and out of the tournament and — oh my, it gets wilder still,
around Cedric, fireworks explode declaiming — “Ron loves Hermione” — and the crowd love
that — oh, ladies and gentlemen, the look on Cedric’s face. It’s quite some picture, it’s quite
some sight, it’s quite some tragedy. This is a humiliation, there’s no other word for it.
And ALBUS smiles widely and high-fives SCORPIUS in the water.
And ALBUS points up, and SCORPIUS nods, and they start to swim ever upwards. And as
CEDRIC ascends, people start to laugh, and everything changes.
The world becomes darker. The world becomes almost black, in fact.
And there’s a flash. And a bang. And the Time-Turner ticks to a stop. And we’re back in the
present.
SCORPIUS suddenly emerges, shooting up through the water. And he’s triumphant.
SCORPIUS: Woooo-hoooooo!
He looks around, surprised. Where’s ALBUS? He puts his arms into the air.
We did it!
He waits another beat.
Albus?
ALBUS still doesn’t emerge. SCORPIUS treads water, he thinks, and then he ducks back into the
water.
He emerges back up again. Now thoroughly panicked. He looks around.
Albus . . . ALBUS . . . ALBUS.
And there’s a whisper in Parseltongue. Which travels fast around the audience.
He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s coming.
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: Scorpius Malfoy. Get out of the lake. Get out of the lake. Right now.