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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

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ACT THREE, SCENE FOURTEEN

HOGWARTS, SLYTHERIN DORMITORY

The two boys are supposed to be asleep, but SCORPIUS can’t sleep.

He gets out of bed and leans ominously over ALBUS’s headboard.

SCORPIUS: Albus . . . Psst . . . Albus.

But ALBUS doesn’t wake, so SCORPIUS goes nuclear.

ALBUS!

ALBUS wakes with a shock. SCORPIUS laughs.

ALBUS: Pleasant. That’s a pleasant and not scary way to wake up.

SCORPIUS: You know it’s the strangest of things, but ever since being in the scariest place

imaginable I’m pretty much good with fear. I am — Scorpius the Dreadless. I am — Malfoy

the Unanxious.

ALBUS: Good.

SCORPIUS: I mean, normally, being in lockdown, being in constant detention, it’d break me, but

now — what’s the worst they can do? Bring back Moldy Voldy and have him torture me?

Nope.

ALBUS: You’re scary when you’re in a good mood, you know that?

SCORPIUS: When Rose came up to me today in Potions and called me Bread Head, I almost

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