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ALBUS: "It's going to be okay, you know that, Mum?"

ALBUS: "This is all my fault."

SCORPIUS: "That's her. That's her. She's seen him."

HERMIONE: "Positions. Everybody. And remember, don't come out until he's got her in the light -- we've one shot at this, we don't want to mess it up."

ALBUS: "I liked her, Mum, you know that? I really liked her. Delphi. And she was -- Voldemort's daughter?"

GINNY takes ALBUS in her arms.

DRACO: "Hermione Granger, I'm being bossed around by Hermione Granger." (She turns towards him. He smiles.) "And I'm mildly enjoying it."

ALBUS sits beside his mum.

ALBUS notices his mum sitting apart. He walks over to her.

GINNY: "That's what they're good at, Albus -- catching innocents in their web."

GINNY: "I know it is. Or I hope I do. I just -- don't want to see him like that. The man I love shrouded in the man I hate."

GINNY: "How funny. Your dad seems to think it's all his. Strange pair that you are."

They all move fast.

RON, HERMIONE, DRACO, SCORPIUS, and ALBUS stand at the window, looking out. GINNY can't look. She sits further back.

HARRY/VOLDEMORT reenters the church. He walks a few paces and then he turns.

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: "If you were my daughter, I'd know of you."

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: "I do not know you. Leave me."

SCORPIUS: "Dad…"

DELPHI: "Lord Voldemort. It is me. I am following you."

She breathes deeply.

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: "Whichever witch or wizard is following me, I assure you, you will regret it."

They scatter. They hide behind two major doors.

DELPHI emerges behind him. She is compelled to him. This is her father and this is the moment she's waited for her entire life.

DELPHI: "I am your daughter."

DELPHI looks at him imploringly.

DELPHI: "I am from the future. The child of Bellatrix Lestrange and you. I was born in Malfoy Manor before the Battle of Hogwarts. A battle you are going to lose. I have come to save you."

HARRY/VOLDEMORT turns. She meets his eyes.

DELPHI: "It was Rodolphus Lestrange, Bellatrix's loyal husband, who on return from Azkaban told me who I was and revealed the prophecy he thought I was destined to fulfill. I am your daughter, sir."

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: "I am familiar with Bellatrix and there are certain similarities in your face -- though you haven't inherited the best of her. But without proof…"

DELPHI: "Father?"

DELPHI: "I am the Augurey to your Dark Lord, and I am ready to give all that I have to serve you."

HARRY/VOLDEMORT (interrupting): "I see what you are, and I see what you could be. Daughter."

DELPHI: "Do not mistake -- I would not claim to be worthy of you, Lord. But I have devoted my life to being a child you could be proud of."

DELPHI speaks intently in Parseltongue.

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: "That's your proof?"

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: "I have never met a witch or a wizard who's attempted to be my equal before."

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: "Together, the power we could wield."

She looks at him, desperately moved.

DELPHI effortlessly rises into the air. HARRY/VOLDEMORT steps back -- amazed.

HARRY/VOLDEMORT (trying not to show his shock): "You learnt -- flight -- from -- me?"

DELPHI: "I have tried to follow the path you set."

HARRY/VOLDEMORT laughs viciously.

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: "Then I won't attack him. You are right."

HARRY/VOLDEMORT's hand turns into HARRY's hand. He looks at it, astonished and dismayed, and then quickly pulls it inside his sleeve.

DELPHI: "Father…"

DELPHI: "Father?"

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: "Come here, in the light, so I may examine what my blood made."

HARRY (trying desperately to still sound like Voldemort): "Your plan is a good one. The fight is off. You have served me well, now come here into the light so I may examine you."

HARRY/VOLDEMORT: "He is a baby."

DELPHI: "Father?"

DELPHI: "Your mission is a mistake. Attacking Harry Potter is a mistake. He will destroy you."

HARRY/VOLDEMORT's hair begins to sprout, he feels it, he attempts to cover it. He pulls his hood over his head.

DELPHI: "He has his mother's love. Your spell will rebound, destroying you and making him too powerful and you too weak. You will recover to spend the next seventeen years consumed in a battle with him -- a battle you will lose."

HARRY/VOLDEMORT shrinks down -- he is now more HARRY than VOLDEMORT. He turns his back to DELPHI.

DELPHI: "Potter. Colloportus!"

DELPHI unleashes a bolt from her hand. HARRY matches her.

He moves to attack her again. But she is far stronger.

HARRY: "How did you…? What are you?"

GINNY (from off): "She's sealed the doors from your side."

HERMIONE (from off): "Harry… Harry…"

HARRY: "Incendio!"

The bolts meet in a beautiful explosion in the middle of the room.

DELPHI: "I've watched you for a long time, Harry Potter. I know you better than my father did."

DELPHI: "Father…"

HARRY looks at the doors, dismayed.

DELPHI: "Incendio!"

DELPHI: "What? Thought your friends were going to join you, did you?"

HARRY's wand ascends upwards towards her. He is disarmed. He is helpless.

HARRY: "Fine. I'll deal with you alone."

And with her other hand DELPHI sends bolts to both doors as they try to open them.

She tries to get a glimpse of his face again -- there is almost a dance happening here.

DELPHI: "You are not Lord Voldemort."

DELPHI sees a door slightly sway open and then be pulled shut. She frowns at it, thinking rapidly, her suspicion growing.

DELPHI: "Are you crawling away from me? Harry Potter. Hero of the wizarding world. Crawling away like a rat. Wingardium Leviosa!"

HARRY rolls away as the floor explodes behind him. He crawls frantically under a church pew, trying to work out how he can fight her.

ALBUS emerges from a grate on the floor. Neither notice.

She sends the pew down hard upon him. It smashes as he rolls desperately away.

She fires the Killing Curse at ALBUS -- but HARRY throws him out of the way. The bolt smashes into the ground. He fires a bolt back.

DELPHI: "The question is whether it's worth my time to kill you -- knowing that as soon as I stop my father your destruction will be assured. How to decide? Oh, I'm bored, I'll kill you."

DELPHI: "I've studied to be worthy of him! Yes, even though he is the supreme wizard of all time, he will be proud of me. Expulso!"

The church pew ascends into the air.

ALBUS: "Dad…"

DELPHI: "Avada --"

HARRY: "You think you've learnt my weaknesses?"

HARRY: "Albus! No!"

DELPHI: "Two of you? Choices, choices. I think I'll kill the boy first. Avada Kedavra!"

She's bound.

DELPHI: "No… No…"

HARRY: "Albus, are you okay?"

There are a series of bangs -- and then, overwhelmed, DELPHI tumbles to the floor.

ALBUS: "Alohomora! Alohomora!"

HARRY: "I've never fought alone, you see. And I never will."

GINNY: "He insisted. He was the only one small enough to crawl through the grate. I tried to stop him."

HERMIONE: "Brachiabindo!"

HARRY still doesn't take his eyes off DELPHI. He's still scared of her.

HARRY advances towards DELPHI. He doesn't take his eyes off her. All the others stay back.

They fire bolts mercilessly at each other as ALBUS rolls quickly away and slams a spell into one door and then another.

HARRY: "Ginny, has he been injured? I need to know he's safe…"

And HERMIONE, RON, GINNY, and DRACO emerge from the doors, and fire up their spells at DELPHI, who screams out in exasperation. This is titanic. But she can't fight them all.

ALBUS opens both doors with his wand.

HARRY: "But we are."

ALBUS: "Yes, Dad, I'm okay."

DELPHI: "You think you're stronger than me?"

HARRY: "No. I'm not."

DELPHI (truly pitiful): "Then kill me."

These words take HARRY by surprise.

DRACO: "Where you'll rot."

RON: "No. We'll take you back to our time."

ALBUS: "I'm fine, Dad. I promise."

HARRY: "Yes. Albus, she's a murderer, and we're not."

HARRY: "No, Albus…"

HARRY: "You can't remake your life. You'll always be an orphan. That never leaves you."

HERMIONE: "And you'll go to Azkaban. Same as your mother."

HARRY: "I can't and I won't."

HARRY: "A lot of people have tried to hurt me -- but my son! You dare hurt my son!"

ALBUS: "What? Dad? She's dangerous."

RON: "Yeah, it's annoying but it's what we learnt."

HARRY: "Just tell me he's okay."

ALBUS: "But she's a murderer -- I've seen her murder --"

HARRY turns and looks at his son and then at GINNY.

DELPHI: "Just let me -- see him."

HERMIONE: "We have to be better than them."

HARRY thinks a moment.

DELPHI: "Take my mind. Take my memory. Make me forget who I am."

DELPHI: "I only wanted to know my father."

HARRY: "I can't do that either."

HARRY keeps advancing towards DELPHI.

And then there is a noise like death -- a noise like nothing else we've heard before. "Haaarry Pottttter…"

VOLDEMORT comes through the back of the stage, and across it, and walks down into the auditorium. He brings death with him. And everyone knows it.

HARRY: "No. No. Not yet."

HARRY hears a noise. A hissing noise.

ALBUS: "What?"

SCORPIUS: "What's that?"

RON: "Voldemort."

DRACO: "Silencio!" (DELPHI is gagged.) "Wingardium Leviosa!" (She is sent upwards and away.)

HERMIONE: "Now? Here?"

DELPHI: "Father!"

HARRY: "He's coming. He's coming right now."

DELPHI: "Father?"