Act four, scene twelve

GODRIC’S HOLLOW, 1981

HARRY looks after VOLDEMORT helplessly.

HARRY: Voldemort is going to kill my mum and dad — and there’s nothing I can do to stop him.

DRACO: That’s not true.

SCORPIUS: Dad, now is not the time...

ALBUS: There is something you could do — to stop him. But you won’t.

DRACO: That’s heroic.

GINNY takes HARRY’s hand.

GINNY: You don’t have to watch, Harry. We can go home.

HARRY: I’m letting it happen... Of course I have to watch.

HERMIONE: Then we’ll all witness it.

RON: We’ll all watch.

We hear unfamiliar voices...

JAMES (from off): Lily, take Harry and go! It’s him! Go! Run! I’ll hold him off...

There is a blast, and then a laugh.

You keep away, you understand — you keep away.

VOLDEMORT (from off): Avada Kedavra!

HARRY flinches as green light flashes around the auditorium.

ALBUS takes his hand. HARRY grasps hold of it. He needs it.

ALBUS: He did everything he could.

GINNY rises beside him and takes HARRY’s other hand. He leans into them, they’re holding him up now.

HARRY: That’s my mum, at the window. I can see my mother, she looks beautiful.

There’s the sound of banging as doors are blasted off.

LILY (from off): Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry...

VOLDEMORT (from off): Stand aside, you silly girl... Stand aside, now...

LILY (from off): Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead...

VOLDEMORT (from off): This is my last warning —

LILY (from off): Not Harry! Please... Have mercy... have mercy... Not my son! Please — I’ll do anything.

VOLDEMORT (from off): Avada Kedavra!

And it’s like lightning passes through HARRY’s body. He’s sent to the floor, a pure mess of grief.

And a noise like a shrunken scream descends and ascends around us.

And we just watch.

And slowly what was there is no longer there.

And the stage transforms and rotates.

And HARRY and his family and his friends are rotated off and away.