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ALBUS: "But I'm nothing like my dad."

All I ever wanted to do was go to Hogwarts and have a mate to get up to mayhem with. Just like Harry Potter. And I got his son. How crazily fortunate is that.

A gap through which is visible… a glorious light…

SCORPIUS: "You're better. You're my best friend, Albus. And this is mayhem to the nth degree. Which is great, thumbs-up great, it's just -- I have got to say -- I don't mind admitting -- I am a tiny bit -- just a tiny bit scared."

ALBUS: "And then you got there and it turned out to be terrible after all."

And revealed through the trees is HOGWARTS -- a splendid mass of bulbous buildings and towers.

ALBUS: "Hogwarts. Never seen this view of it before."

SCORPIUS and ALBUS round a corner to be faced with a gap in the trees…

SCORPIUS: "And there it is…"

SCORPIUS: "Not for me."

ALBUS looks at his friend, shocked.

SCORPIUS: "Still get a tingle, don't you? When you see it?"

From the moment I first heard of it, I was desperate to go. I mean, Dad didn't much like it there but even the way he described it… From the age of ten I'd check the Daily Prophet first thing every morning -- certain some sort of tragedy would have befallen it -- certain I wouldn't get to go.

ALBUS: "You're my best friend too. And don't worry -- I have a good feeling about this."

ALBUS: "But we've got to go -- now."

And there is a giant whoosh of light. A smash of noise.

And then it speeds up.

ALBUS takes the Time-Turner from SCORPIUS -- he presses down upon it and the Time-Turner begins to vibrate and then explodes into a storm of movement.

ALBUS turns towards it, scared.

RON: "Albus? Albus."

We hear RON's voice from off -- he's clearly in close proximity.

And time stops. And then it turns over, thinks a bit, and begins spooling backwards, slow at first…

And with it the stage starts to transform. The two boys look at it.

ALBUS looks at SCORPIUS and smiles.