Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

SCORPIUS looks at his friend accusingly.
This concerns her too.
SCORPIUS thinks, and then nods, accepting this.
DELPHI: What concerns me? What’s this about?
ALBUS gets out the Time-Turner.
ALBUS: We need to destroy the Time-Turner. The things Scorpius saw after the second task . . .
I’m so sorry. We can’t risk going back again. We can’t 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 can’t 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 SCORPIUS’s 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: I’ll go further than that — I’ll say Cedric would have understood. We’ll destroy it
together, and then we’ll 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