Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

CEDRIC frowns, surprised.
CEDRIC: What?
Behind them, DELPHI’s body creeps into movement. She crawls along the ground.
ALBUS: Just thought you should know that.
CEDRIC (struggling to process this): Okay. Um. Thank you.
CEDRIC looks at ALBUS a moment more, and then walks on. As he does so, DELPHI pulls out
the Time-Turner from within her robes and SCORPIUS sees her.
SCORPIUS: Albus!
ALBUS: No. Wait . . .
SCORPIUS: The Time-Turner is spinning . . . Look at what she’s doing . . . She can’t leave us
behind.
ALBUS and SCORPIUS both scramble to grab part of the Time-Turner.
And there is a giant whoosh of light. A smash of noise.
And time stops. And then it turns over, thinks a bit, and begins spooling backwards, slow at
first . . .
And then it speeds up.
Albus . . .
ALBUS: What have we done?
SCORPIUS: We had to go with the Time-Turner, we had to try to stop her.
DELPHI: Stop me? How do you think you’ve stopped me? I am done with this.
She crushes the Time-Turner. It explodes into a thousand pieces.
You may have destroyed my chances of using Cedric to darken the world but maybe you’re
right, Scorpius — maybe prophecies can be prevented, maybe prophecies can be broken. What
is undoubtedly true is: I’m done with trying to use you annoying, incompetent creatures for
anything. No more wasting precious seconds on either of you. Time to try something new.
DELPHI ascends again into the air. She laughs in delight as she sets off hard away.
The boys try to chase her, but they’ve not the slightest chance. She flies, they run.