Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

HARRY: Professor, she did ask for no questions.
HERMIONE: It’s fine, Harry. No, Professor, that’s where this gets worse. I’m afraid we’ve no
means of taking her into custody. Or indeed, stopping her doing anything. She’s out of our
reach.
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: We can’t — look for her?
There’s a beat, this takes courage.
HERMIONE: We have good reason to believe — she’s hidden herself — in time.
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL (furious): Of all the reckless, stupid things, you kept the Time-Turner
even now?
HERMIONE: Professor, I assure you —
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: Shame on you, Hermione Granger.
HERMIONE flinches in the face of the anger.
HARRY: No, she doesn’t deserve that. You have a right to be angry. You all do. But this is not all
Hermione’s fault. We don’t know how the witch got hold of the Time-Turner. Whether my
son gave it to her.
GINNY: Whether our son gave it her. Or whether it was stolen from him.
GINNY joins HARRY on the stage.
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: Your solidarity is admirable, but it doesn’t make your negligence
negligible.
DRACO: Then it’s a negligence I too should face.
DRACO walks up to the stage and stands beside GINNY. This is almost a Spartacus moment.
There are gasps.
Hermione and Harry have done nothing wrong but try and protect us all. If they’re guilty then
I am too.
HERMIONE looks across at her cohort — moved. RON determinedly joins them on the stage.
RON: Just to say — I didn’t know about much of it so can’t take responsibility — and I’m pretty
sure my kids had nothing to do with it — but if this lot are standing up here then so am I.
GINNY: No one can know where they are — whether they’re together or apart. I trust that our sons
will be doing all they can to stop her, but . . .