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ALBUS: "Exactly, it's been done before -- let's do something new, something fun."

ALBUS: "It felt important to send an owl -- let her know what we're doing, you know?"

SCORPIUS: "Wow. You're… um… What are you doing here?"

SCORPIUS looks up, surprised to see DELPHI has emerged behind them.

ALBUS: "Bombarda?"

SCORPIUS: "Fun? Look, many wizards overlook the importance of choosing the right spell, but this really matters. I think it's a much-underestimated part of modern witchcraft."

SCORPIUS: "So I think a simple Confringo."

SCORPIUS and ALBUS emerge onto a roof bathed in silver light. There's soft hooting all around them.

DELPHI: "'A much-underestimated part of modern witchcraft' -- you two are the greatest, you know that?"

SCORPIUS: "And wake up everyone in Hogwarts? Maybe Stupefy. They were originally destroyed using Stupefy…"

SCORPIUS: "Expulso? Expulso and we'll be clearing bits of Time-Turner from this owlery for days."

ALBUS: "Definitely not. For something like this you need Expulso."

SCORPIUS looks at his friend accusingly.

ALBUS: "This concerns her too."

ALBUS gets out the Time-Turner.

SCORPIUS: "Humiliating Cedric turned him into a very angry young man, and then he became a Death Eater and -- and -- it all went wrong. Really wrong."

SCORPIUS thinks, and then nods, accepting this.

DELPHI: "Voldemort ruled? He was alive?"

DELPHI looks at it and then at them both.

DELPHI hesitates. And then her face breaks.

ALBUS: "Imagine the worst possible world, and then double it. People being tortured, dementors everywhere, a despotic Voldemort, my dad dead, me never born, the world surrounded by Dark Magic -- we just, we can't allow that to happen."

SCORPIUS: "He ruled everything. It was terrible."

DELPHI: "Because of what we did?"

DELPHI: "Your owl said so little…"

ALBUS: "We need to destroy the Time-Turner. The things Scorpius saw after the second task… I'm so sorry. We can't risk going back again. We can't save your cousin."

DELPHI: "What concerns me? What's this about?"

DELPHI looks at SCORPIUS's face carefully. Her face sinks.

DELPHI's cloak has loosened. An Augurey tattoo is visible on the back of her neck.

DELPHI: "A Death Eater?"

DELPHI: "Oh. Yes. Well, it's an Augurey."

ALBUS: "Thank you."

ALBUS: "You understand?"

SCORPIUS: "An Augurey?"

SCORPIUS: "And a murderer. He killed Professor Longbottom."

ALBUS: "Oh, nice mark."

DELPHI: "What?"

DELPHI: "Then -- of course -- we need to destroy it."

DELPHI smiles at them sadly, and then takes the Time-Turner. She looks at it and her expression changes slightly.

ALBUS: "On your back. I hadn't noticed it before. The wings. Is that what the Muggles call a tattoo?"

DELPHI: "I'll go further than that -- I'll say Cedric would have understood. We'll destroy it together, and then we'll go to my uncle. Explain the situation."

DELPHI: "Haven't you met them in Care of Magical Creatures? They're sinister-looking black birds that cry when rain's coming. Wizards used to believe that the Augurey's cry foretold death. When I was growing up my guardian kept one in a cage."

SCORPIUS: "Your… guardian?"

A slow smile grows on DELPHI's face.

DELPHI looks at SCORPIUS, now she has the Time-Turner she's enjoying the game of this.

A thousand thoughts whir inside SCORPIUS's head.

DELPHI: "It reminds me that the future is mine to make."

DELPHI: "What?"

SCORPIUS: "They called you the Augurey. In -- the other world -- they called you the Augurey."

SCORPIUS: "The Rowles were pretty extreme Death Eaters."

ALBUS: "Scorpius? What are you doing?"

SCORPIUS: "Give it back. Give us back the Time-Turner."

DELPHI: "She used to say it was crying because it could see I was going to come to a sticky end. She didn't like me much. Euphemia Rowle… she only took me in for the gold."

ALBUS: "Come on, let's get destroying… Confringo? Stupefy? Bombarda? Which would you use?"

SCORPIUS: "I don't believe you ever were ill. Why didn't you come to Hogwarts? Why are you here now?"

DELPHI: "I'm trying to bring my cousin back!"

DELPHI: "The Augurey? I rather like that."

ALBUS: "Why would you want a tattoo of her bird, then?"

ALBUS: "Cool. I might get an Augurey tattoo."

She pulls ALBUS's wand from him and snaps it.

ALBUS is propelled to the floor, his hands tied by the same brutal binding.

She pulls SCORPIUS's wand from him and snaps it.

DELPHI: "And that is the first spell I've had to use on you. I thought I'd have to use plenty more. But you're far easier to control than Amos -- children, particularly male children, are so naturally pliant, aren't they? Now, let's sort this mess out once and for all…"

DELPHI: "Fulgari!"

ALBUS: "But why? But what? But who are you?"

ALBUS: "Delphi?"

She's too quick. Leveling her wand, she repels SCORPIUS, and she is far stronger. SCORPIUS tries to keep her back, but she quickly overpowers him.

ALBUS looks around, bewildered. And then starts to run.

DELPHI: "Albus. I am the new past."

SCORPIUS's arms are bound in vicious, luminous cords.

SCORPIUS: "Albus. Run!"

DELPHI: "Fulgari!"

DELPHI: "I am the answer this world has been looking for."

DELPHI: "I am the new future."