Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

ACT TWO, SCENE THREE
HOGWARTS, HEADMISTRESS’S OFFICE
HARRY and GINNY stand in PROFESSOR McGONAGALL’s office.
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: And we don’t know where in the Forbidden Forest?
HARRY: I haven’t had a dream like it for years. But Albus was there. I know he was.
GINNY: We need to get searching as quickly as possible.
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: I can give you Professor Longbottom — his knowledge of plants might
be useful — and —
Suddenly there is a rumble in the chimney. PROFESSOR McGONAGALL looks at it, concerned.
Then HERMIONE tumbles out.
HERMIONE: Is it true? Can I help?
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: Minister — this is quite unexpected . . .
GINNY: That may be my fault — I persuaded them to put out an emergency edition of the Daily
Prophet. Asking for volunteers.
PROFESSOR McGONAGALL: Right. Very sensible. I expect . . . there will be quite a few.
RON bursts in. Covered in soot. Wearing a gravy-stained dinner napkin.
RON: Have I missed anything — I couldn’t work out which Floo to travel to. Ended up in the
kitchen somehow. (HERMIONE glares as he pulls the napkin off himself.) What?