Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

SCORPIUS: The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world
is not better. And I don’t want that.
Suddenly DOLORES UMBRIDGE emerges behind them.
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: Professor Snape!
SNAPE: Professor Umbridge.
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: Have you heard the news? We’ve caught that traitorous Mudblood Hermione
Granger. She was just out here.
SNAPE: That’s — fantastic.
UMBRIDGE is staring at SNAPE. He looks back.
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: With you. Granger was with you.
SNAPE: With me? You’re mistaken.
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: With you and Scorpius Malfoy. A student I’m becoming increasingly
concerned about.
SCORPIUS: Well . . .
SNAPE: Dolores, we’re late for class, so if you’ll excuse us . . .
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: If you’re late for class, why are you not heading back to the school? Why are
you heading to the lake?
There’s a moment of pure silence. And then SNAPE does something hugely unusual — he
smiles.
SNAPE: How long have you suspected?
UMBRIDGE rises off the ground. She opens her arms wide, full of Dark Magic. She takes out
her wand.
DOLORES UMBRIDGE: Years. And I should have acted upon it far earlier.
SNAPE is faster with his wand.
SNAPE: Depulso!
UMBRIDGE is propelled backwards through the air.
She always was too grand for her own good. There’s no turning back now.