Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

ACT ONE, SCENE FIFTEEN
HARRY AND GINNY POTTER’S HOUSE, KITCHEN
HARRY, RON, HERMIONE, and GINNY sit, eating together.
HERMIONE: I’ve told Draco again and again — no one in the Ministry is saying anything about
Scorpius. The rumors aren’t coming from us.
GINNY: I wrote to him — after he lost Astoria — to ask if there’s anything we could do. I thought
maybe — as he was such a good friend to Albus — maybe Scorpius might want to stay over
part of the Christmas break or . . . My owl came back with a letter containing one simple
sentence: “Tell your husband to refute these allegations about my son once and for all.”
HERMIONE: He’s obsessed.
GINNY: He’s a mess — a grieving mess.
RON: And I’m sorry for his loss but when he accuses Hermione of . . . Well . . . (He looks across
at HARRY.) Oi droopy drawers, like I say to her all the time, it could be nothing.
HERMIONE: Her?
RON: The trolls could be going to a party, the giants to a wedding, you could be getting bad
dreams because you’re worried about Albus, and your scar could be hurting because you’re
getting old.
HARRY: Getting old? Thanks, mate.
RON: Honestly, every time I sit down now I make an “ooof” noise. An “ooof.” And my feet —
the trouble I’m having with my feet — I could write songs about the pain my feet give me —