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GINNY: "Poor kid has saved the world. That blanket was masterful. I mean, he also almost destroyed the world, but probably best not to focus on that bit."

GINNY: "Or some of us will be."

HARRY: "Poor kid thought he had to save the world."

GINNY: "You know, after I'd opened the Chamber of Secrets -- after Voldemort had bewitched me with that terrible diary and I'd almost destroyed everything --"

HARRY: "No. Nothing. Why isn't she here?"

She looks at ALBUS's sleeping form.

GINNY: "He's getting there, it just might take him a bit of time -- and you a bit of time too."

GINNY: "After I came out of hospital -- everyone ignored me, shut me out -- other than, that is, the boy who had everything -- who came across the Gryffindor common room and challenged me to a game of Exploding Snap. People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are -- have always been -- heroic in really quiet ways. My point is -- after this is over, just remember if you could that sometimes people -- but particularly children -- just want someone to play Exploding Snap with."

HARRY smiles. She looks back at ALBUS. HARRY does too.

GINNY: "We're together, your mum and dad are alive -- we can turn time, Harry, we can't speed it up. She'll come when she's ready, and we'll be ready for her."

HARRY: "I remember."

HARRY: "You think he's okay?"

ALBUS is sleeping in a pew. GINNY watches him carefully. HARRY is looking out the opposite window.

GINNY: "I know, but he needs to feel it."

A thought occurs to GINNY.

HARRY: "I do love him specifically, Ginny."

HARRY: "You think that's what we're missing -- Exploding Snap?"

GINNY: "No. But the love I felt from you that day -- I'm not sure Albus feels that."

HARRY: "You know, it wasn't until we thought Albus had gone that I truly understood what my mother was able to do for me. A countercharm so powerful that it was able to repel the spell of death."

GINNY: "Harry, you'd do anything for anybody. You were pretty happy to sacrifice yourself for the world. He needs to feel specific love. It'll make him stronger, and you stronger too."

GINNY: "And the only spell Voldemort couldn't understand -- love."

HARRY: "I'm lucky to have you, aren't I?"

HARRY: "I'd do anything for him."

GINNY: "Extremely. And I'd be delighted to discuss just how lucky at another time. But for now -- let's focus on stopping Delphi."

HARRY: "We are running out of time."

GINNY: "Unless -- Harry, has anyone thought -- why has she picked now? Today?"

GINNY: "Right now you're over a year old, am I right?"

HARRY: "A year and three months."

HARRY: "Because this is the day that everything changed…"

GINNY: "That's a year and three months she could have killed you in. Even now, she's been in Godric's Hollow for twenty-four hours. What's she waiting for?"

HARRY: "What?"

HARRY: "I'm still not entirely following --"

GINNY: "What if she's not waiting for you -- she's waiting for him… to stop him."

HARRY: "He'd have only got more powerful -- the darkness would only have got darker."

GINNY: "Delphi's picked tonight because he's here -- because her father is coming. She wants to meet him. Be with him, the father she loves. Voldemort's problems started when he attacked you. If he hadn't done that…"

GINNY: "The best way to break the prophecy is not to kill Harry Potter, it's to stop Voldemort doing anything at all."