Brink o' Doom

Copyright 2003 by Caius Marcius

Azkaban

To the title tune of Brigadoon

THE SCENE: As the Chorus of Dementors sing off-camera, on screen we see a large black dog swimming ashore the British mainland.

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS:
Azkaban, Azkaban,
Guarded under ghostly gowns.
Azkaban, Azkaban,
Let your joy forever drown.
May your soul lay dead within you,
Let your sorrow reign supreme!
Azkaban, Azkaban,
May our nightmares kill your dream!

The dog transfigures to human shape once he reaches shore. He sinks to his knees, makes what appears to be a deeply solemn and somber vow, then Apparates to Little Whinging. Resuming canine shape, we suddenly find him facing a young 13-year-old wizard dragging a heavy trunk and carrying an owl cage. The boy falls over backward in shock. From a distance, both boy and canine are alerted to the sound of distant voices.

Come Ye to the Bus (PoA, Chap. 3)

To the tune of Vendors' Calls and Down on MacConnachy Square

ERNIE (off-screen):
Come on board our bus!

STAN:
On the Knight Bus!

BOTH:
On the Knight Bus!

FIRST PASSENGER:
Anglesea to Aberdeen
On the bus, laddie!

SECOND PASSENGER:
Climb ye on the bus!

THIRD PASSENGER:
Though the ride may be too harsh
For Ms. Marsh, laddies!

FOURTH PASSENGER:
[echoes THIRD PASSENGER]

ERNIE:
All come aboard!

STAN:
The engine roared!

FIRST & THIRD PASSENGER:
If you're lost or strand….

MAN:
You can go most anywhere
With paid fare, laddie!

SECOND & FOURTH PASSENGER:
….just raise your wand hand!

FIRST & THIRD PASSENGER:
(one after the other)
Come and join us!

STAN & ERN:
Come on board our bus!

Finally, the Knight Bus, with headlights ablazing, comes into the view of both HARRY and the dog. The dog bounds away, barking. HARRY, somewhat dazed, is taken aboard, as the Bus goes careening off again

STAN & ERN & CHORUS OF PASSENGERS (joyously):
Come ye, all ye join with us,
On the bus!
Come ye from Portree!
Come from Appleby!
Come Ballycastle,
Come Wimbourne,
Come Tutshill!
Come we with a zoom!
Load your trunk 'n' broom!
Travel anywhere:
Well ere morn
You'll be there
Down on Diagon's main Square!

HARRY (aside)
Now having just fled me Privet house,
My prospects looked miserable.
My Auntie Marge did so livid grouse
I turned her dirigible.
An exile's lot would now be mine
I made off for Gringotts' bank
But then into ken a black canine
And this bus with a loud clank.

STAN & ERN
Come we with a zoom!
Load your trunk 'n' broom!
Travel anywhere:
Well ere morn
You'll be there!

CHORUS OF PASSENGERS:
They come with a zoom!
Load your trunk 'n' broom!
Travel anywhere

STAN & ERN
Oh come we with a zoom,
We come with a zoom!
Oh come ye load your trunk an' broom!
Oh hear ye people,
Travel anywhere

CHORUS OF PASSENGERS:
Take Neville there,
Him to the square,
Diagon square
Diagon square

STAN, ERN & CHORUS OF PASSENGERS:
Well ere morn
You'll be there
Down on Diagon's main Square!

The Knight Bus pulls up in front of the Leaky Cauldron, where CORNELIUS FUDGE awaits

ERN:
Now we arrive dead spot on
The Cauldron, Nevvy!

HARRY:
Leaky Cauldron!

FUDGE:
Luckily I've chanced upon
Lily's son, Harry!

TOM:
Welcome says the landlord Tom,
Lily's son, Harry!

FUDGE & TOM:
At last it's calm.
At last it's calm.

STAN, ERN
We'll just say salaam,
Say salaam!

Exit The Knight Bus

HARRY (aside):
I'm thinkin' for sure I'm prison-bound
When Fudge met me at the gate
But now he tells me he doesn't frown
When you make an aunt inflate
But finest of all he says to me
I'm not from Hogwarts thrown out
Instead, I win open sesame
With Diagon all shone out

Segue to the following day - HARRY savors his freedom while all the wondrous products of the wizarding world are up for sale

FIRST CHORUS OF DIAGON MERCHANTS (sung simultaneously with below)
All of ye see our potions brews,
An' all of ye try new robes.
Come see lunascopes in several hues,
An' intergalactic globes.
Come all of ye see amazin' brooms!
A state of the art affair!
Come all of ye see our new costumes!
Come on and see things so rare!
How it soars and zooms!
See the Firebolt broom!

SECOND CHORUS OF DIAGON MERCHANTS (sung simultaneously with above)
Come buy potion brews!
Gossip of the news!
Come buy magic rats.
New textbooks,
Kneazle cats!
Oh come buy gold gobstones,
The gold gobstones!
Oh come see how the Firebolt's flown!

HARRY, TOM & CHORUS:
Oh hear ye people,
Hear ye ev'rywhere,
Have a look!
We are there!
Down on Diagon's main Square!

My Mother's Dying Day (PoA, Chap. 5, 7, 9 & 13)

To the tune of My Mother's Wedding Day

THE SCENE: Before the grounds of Hogwarts. Enter HARRY and a CHORUS OF DEMENTORS

HARRY:
Now if ye wonder why my life is full of such distress
It started off the last I rode on the Hogwarts Express.
The train, it grounded to a halt, and through a darkened door
There came that foulest of creatures - a fiendish dementor

The 'mentor it meant to march right in 'n' mangle the man who was makin' away
And as the room temperatures plunged below freezing I glimpsed its hands decay
I fell like one who'd been struck dead, and right away inside my head
Lost voices reverberated with panic and dismay
I heard a woman's frightened screams, a cold high laugh, a flash of green

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS
We took you right back to the scene of your mother's dyin' day.

The CHORUS OF DEMENTORS dance energetically around the immobilized figure of HARRY

HARRY:
In Dark Arts Defenses when Remus walked in, we didn't know what to expect
But when he shot gum up the poltergeist's nose, we knew he'd prove high-tech
In his first lesson gainst Dark Arts, he introduced us to Boggarts
An icy knife struck deep my heart that I could not eject
But mayhap Lupin was a seer, he did not let me face this fear

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS
So at that time, you came not near your mother's dyin' day.

The CHORUS OF DEMENTORS dance energetically around the immobilized figure of HARRY

HARRY:
When we're playin' Quidditch in the drivin' rain 'gainst Cedric and Hufflepuff's team
Then all of a sudden the 'mentors drift in and they like their sports extreme
Once more cold laughter and green light, I cannoe put up any fight
I fell fifty feet in my flight 'midst my mother's dreadful screams
The game and consciousness I lost, because my path with 'mentors crossed

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS
As we replay the holocaust of your mother's dyin' day.

The CHORUS OF DEMENTORS dance energetically around the immobilized figure of HARRY

HARRY:
So I asked of Remus how best to repel the 'mentors from out of my ken
And Lupin replied that he's just the right thing, the Expecto Patronum
And so I practiced with this spell, it proved as difficult as hell,
Straight to the floor I often fell when the boggart mimicked them.

HARRY'S wand summons his Patronus, which lingers for the remainder of the song

The next time that I on my Quidditch broom flew, 'gainst Ravenclaw and the fair Cho
I spied robéd beings skulking about, so I hollered "Expecto!"
My patron flew out like a blast, the robéd ones were scattered fast
The feeling was so unsurpassed when it proved to be Draco
It was a sight of greatest joy, the dim disgrace of dumb Malfoy

CHORUS:
That afterglow we shall destroy with your mother's dyin' day!

The Chief Dementor zaps HARRY'S Patronus into smithereens. Exit CHORUS

Bow to Him (PoA, Chap. 6)

To the tune of Come To Me, Bend To Me

THE SCENE: Care of Magical Creatures class. HAGRID gives a lesson on hippogriffs for his CoMC debut, a lesson few will soon forget.

HAGRID:
I'm now the teacher of magic creatures, let's dispense with the polemics
A hippogriff who will never stiff you if you regard proxemics
(to HARRY) Go to him, bow to him, show him respect
Bucky, to Buckbeak, now make eye contact

He bows to you, bends to you, now make his day!
Tighten your grip an' let him fly away.

Emboldened by Harry's seemingly effortless success, DRACO approaches Buckbeak with little sign of deference

DRACO
Come, griffin, near me, ye do not scare me, you do not threaten my safety
You're such a meek thing, a frail weakling, that I cannot wait to chafe ye.

Oh, mock at you, jeer at you, kiss you-know-what!

Buckbeak/Draco. Draco screams in agony

HAGRID & THE TRIO
Talons, his talons slash angry and hot,
Jus' go to him, rescue him, off to Pomfrey!
But will Buckbeak after this day run free?

Lady's Packing Up (PoA Chap. 8)

To the tune of Jeannie's Packing Up

THE SCENE: The Grounds before Hogwarts. The CHORUS OF DEMENTORS receive the news of Sirius Black's latest outrage

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS:
Lady's packing up!
Lady's moving out!
Lady's packing up!
Lady's moving out!
Black is to blame
And soon he shall be tamed

Lady's packing up!
Lady's moving out!
Lady's packing up!
Lady's moving out!
Black deserves blame
And soon he shall be tamed

That poor painted dame
Just fled from her frame
Black would slash and maim
In his single aim
To once more proclaim
He-We-Must-Not-Name
Is back in the game!
Good thing we came
Black we soon shall tame!

I'll Head Off to See Hogsmeade (PoA, Chap. 10)

To the tune of I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean

THE SCENE: Third-years prepare to go on their second Hogsmeade excursion.

CHORUS OF THIRD-YEARS:
We now have reached the age 13
We're old enough now that we can convene
In that unique old town with its wizardly renown
And there amidst its shops and planks,
We'll fill our bag with Acid Pops and pranks
An' quell our sweet tooth's greed, for we're off to see Hogsmeade!

We're off, we're off, we're off to see Hogsmeade!
We're off, we're off,
We are off to see Hogsmeade!

HARRY:
My uncle said he'd sign my note
If I just agreed to not rock the boat
'Twas the very note I need if I were to see Hogsmeade
Alas, the note did go unsigned, my uncle so unkind declined
His signature accede, so I'll not go to Hogsmeade!

CHORUS:
Not go, not go, not go to see Hogsmeade!!
Not go, not go

HARRY & CHORUS:
I'll not go to see Hogsmeade!

Exit all, except HARRY, FRED & GEORGE

GEORGE:
You know us to be rovin' lads
In Argus' den we were once made glad
To filch this magic map that makes sneaking out a snap.

FRED
"I solemn promise to do wrong,"
Then Padfoot, Wormtail, Moony and Prongs
Will wish to you "Godspeed," and you're off to see Hogsmeade!

HARRY, FRED & GEORGE
I'm/You're off, I'm/you're off, I'm/you're off to see Hogsmeade!
I'm/you're off, I'm/you're off
I am/you are off to see Hogsmeade!

Dementor Dance & Reel (PoA Chap. 10)

To the tune of Sword Dance and Reel

As HARRY arrives in Hogsmeade, he sees a terrifying spectacle - a squadron of Dementors patrolling the streets. The Chief Dementor leads the squad, playing on the bagpipes as the other dementors engage in their ritual fugitive-hunting dance.

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS
Mentors!
Search till there's not a single stone unturned!
Search till the fugitive is black and burned!
Do not spare his soul
From our grim patrol!
Search until Black has won the kiss he's earned!

The dementors leap in the air, uttering wild cry and war whoops

Search!
Search!
Quit this joking and get Sirius!
Quit this joking and get Sirius!

Search!
Catch the heir of Voldemort!
Suck!
Kiss the heir of Voldemort!

Search!
Black shall once more be our Prisoner of Azkaban!
No one shall escape our Prison of Azkaban!
Search!
Search ye dementors!
Search!
Search ye dementors
Search ye, 'mentors!

To escape the dementors, HARRY ducks into the Three Broomsticks, and hides under a table, without at first realizing that the table is occupied by FUDGE, MADAM ROSMERTA, McGONAGALL, FLITWICK & HAGRID, discussing the fugitive Sirius Black.

Safeguardin' Our Harry (PoA, Chap. 10)

To the tune of Waiting for My Dearie

FUDGE:
Sirius wants to make awful reprisals
Against young Harry who stopped the Dark Lord.
So it's essential his friends and allies all
Approach this threat with our minds in accord

This is my thought, we should not be a-tellin'
And fill the lad with such anxiety
For though the story is very compellin'
He should not know Black slew his family

ALL (except HARRY):
Not one word we'll say.
How they were betrayed.

FUDGE
Safegaurdin' our Harry, confidentially
Let him know nothing of this history:

ROSMERTA
How those two were rarely ever seen apart
Young James and Black were quite the work of art.

McGONAGALL:
With their pranks and their jokes and young James' old cloak
They were brothers through and through
And on James' wedding day his best man seemed OK
But he served You-Know-Who.

ALL (except HARRY):
When Lil did child carry they asked Black to be
Godfather to their Harry…..

HARRY (shocked)
- Me!

FUDGE:
Then the Potters were to go underground
Dumble warned them they must hide
For unknown loathsome traitors were skulkin' around
Working for the other side

FLITWICK
The Fidelius should have kept them safe
If Black kept his solemn oath.

HAGRID:
But then off he went to Voldy and betrayed them both
When Voldy struck Harry his force was laid low
And Black was forced his true colors to show

McGONAGALL:
Pettigrew, unwary, faced Black in a duel
Then thirteeen lives were lost so swift and cruel

FUDGE
He was caught by my staff as he laughed and he laughed
So a life sentence we gave
Now he's fled Azkaban for his sinister plan
To bring Vold from the grave.

ALL (except HARRY):
We'll fend off the fury of Sirius B.
But who'll serve as his jury?

HARRY (angered & determined):
Me!

From This Day On (PoA, Chap. 11)

To the tune of the same name.

THE SCENE: Since overhearing the role that Black played in his parents' death, HARRY is obsessed with thoughts of revenge. HERMIONE & RON express concern.

HERMIONE & RON:
Dinna ye know, Harry, that yer eyes are puffed and red?
So you need to go, Harry, and get some sleep in your bed

HARRY:
The folks I never knew were slew due to You-Know-Who
I've an orphan been from that day on
And some guy my folks called friend gave them a most bitter end
And it's my godkin who made them gone.
One dozen years I've been of parents deprived
Black sentenced me to that pure hell: Privet Drive.
So though I may be too late I vow to retaliate
`Gainst him! Against Black so dark and dim!

I pledge it's tit-for-tat for that double-crossing rat
Tis Black I'll pursue from this day on!

So Close To Being Reborn (PoA, Chap. 16)

To the tune of Almost Like Being In Love

THE SCENE: TRELAWNEY'S classroom. Harry, preparing to take his leave after taking his Divination exam, overhears his professor deliver a startling message in a voice quite unlike her own.

TRELAWNEY:
Taking my test up in my tow'r,
You know not of Cassandra, do I share some of her power?
Truly I am now in my prime:
As I foresee a second time!

Once bereft and alone, he will seize back his throne
Why, he's so close to being reborn
A Napoleon thing, an ex-exiled king
Who is so close to being reborn
Oh, how his faithful servant will strive to upgrade to Voldy '95!
And when this Servant breaks loose, he will really produce.
Things will get right chaotic, then they'll turn quite despotic.
He is so close to being reborn.

He intends to debase all of the human race
He is….so full of hatred and scorn
He will play the dark god when he wins back his bod
He will make many good wizards mourn.

If you don't know what is to be done
Then please reference Prophecy #1…
And so the die has been cast, kid, you'd better act fast
Midst the howls and the squeals, the wheels within wheels
He is so close to……..

Trelawney comes out of her trance, and addresses Harry

(spoken) I'm so sorry, dear boy - the heat of the day, you know... I drifted off for a…….

Trelawney go back into her trance in order to conclude a suitably majestic flourish

(music) ….is so close to being reborn!

Trelawney slumps over

The Execution (PoA, Chap. 16)

To the accompaniment of the orchestral entr'acte The Funeral

THE SCENE: Before Hagrid's hut. A solitary Dementor standing in the background plays the bagpipes. As this instrumental piece is performed, we see The Commitee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures reading the sentence of death upon the hippogriff Buckbeak. After the reading, McNair, Fudge, Dumbledore and Hagrid exit silently toward Buckbeak's compound. The Trio emerge from under the Invisibility Cloak and listen apprehensively until they hear the swish of the executioner's axe.

HERMIONE (spoken): They did it!....I d-don't believe it- they did it!

Black-out

The Worst Day of Your Life (PoA, Chap. 17-19)

To the tune of Love of My Life

THE SCENE: Under the Whomping Willow, then to the Shrieking Shack. The TRIO learn the shocking truth about Sirius, Lupin & MWPP.

HARRY
The fugitive Black was in pursuit
At last one night his long quest bore fruit.
I thought he'd betrayed James and his wife,
But it was then he changed my life.

One night 'neath the moon and the mean Willow tree
A cat and a dog launched their conspiracy
The cat chased the rat and then after them went Ron
The dog it came a-chargin' and then all of them were gone

I gave hunt with Herm and ran straight to the Shack
We came face to face with the infamous Black
He seized both our wands with an Expelliarmus
And then calmly stated his intent to murder one of us

I vowed Black's efforts would be for naught
I lunged at the man, and how we fought!
I felt that in the ensuing strife
That one of us would lose his life

HERMIONE
He burst through the doorway, Professor R.L.
I cried, "It is Black, the one you must corral!"
I thought we were safe, but then much to our unease
Lupin spoke soft to Sirius and gave him a big squeeze

I cried, "Tis a werewolf, a werewolf is he!
He's been helping Black so to murder Harry."
Lupin said my score was just 33 percent
For he would never harm Harry and that Black was innocent

He said, "Tis Scabbers that we must view
For he's no rat, he's Pete Pettigrew.
Tis he who gave to us all this strife
And now's a lower form of life."

LUPIN:
Oh, as a young laddie, by wolf I was bit
When I came to school, Dumble kept it secret
Three friends learned the truth, and to aid me in my plight
They became Animagi and we romped each waxing night.

Upon the Marauder's Map nicknames we put
Of Wormtail, Moody and Prongs and Padfoot.
No quartet ever explored more of Hogwarts' School
Yet I knew that I was guilty for such breaking of the rules

But then one night when I'm in the Shack
"I'll trick Snivellus," thought Mister Black.
But thanks to James, Snapey still survives….

SNAPE (pulling off the invisibility cloak):
….To greet the worst day of your life!

Oh, such is my vengeance, my vengeance so sweet
With both Black and Lupin, my triumph's complete.
Your plot to kill Harry is simply not to be
When it comes to harming Harry, I want a monopoly.

Don't ask me to fathom the lycanthrope mind
The best way to treat one is by a rope bind.
On the grounds of Hogwarts dementors glide about
I need only summon them, two souls will flicker out.

TRIO:
So we said, "Snapey, please lend an ear."
But he replied, "Just get outta here!"
And so for the first time in our lives
We teacher hit with a line drive…….!

Snape is knocked unconscious by the TRIO's triple Expelliarmus

The Wizard We Would Kill (PoA, Chap. 19)

To the tune of The Heather on the Hill

THE SCENE: The Shrieking Shack. SIRIUS speaks in his own defense

SIRIUS:
Why have I been stalking to get him, out beyond the Azkaban isle?
For 12 years the Weasleys have pet him, as I've been held in durance vile
That's what I'd like to do: kill the Wizard Pettigrew.

I pledged that I'd be Secret-Keeper for James and for the lovely Lil
So they were safe from the Grim Reaper and the Wizard who would kill

But when I thought how best to sham them, I took what proved a poison pill
I trusted Peter - how I'd damn him! - 'gainst the Wizard who would kill

There can't be other deeds as rank and base
There can't be other rats more in disgrace
He must have been so proud when he betrayed
Thirty coins paid

And in the street when I faced Peter, he acted with an evil will
He framed me as a foul Death Eater, and a wizard who would kill
A wizard who would kill

LUPIN:
How could you know it was Wormtail, since rodents number in the Mil
How was that you could spurn jail for a Wizard who did kill?

SIRIUS:
Cornelius gave me a newspaper proving that Pettigrew lived still
I took a vow that I'd escape there and that Peter I would kill

Though there were 'mentors who held me at bay
There's one unhappy thought they can't allay
The fact I'm innocent - though it caused pain
It kept me sane….

BLACK & LUPIN
And now that we are reuniting, for Pettigrew 'tis dead-endsville
He is the rat we'll be indicting and the wizard we will kill
The wizard we will kill.

For You-Know-Who Go I (PoA, Chap. 19)

To the tune of There But For You Go I

THE SCENE: His true identity revealed, PETER tries to finesse his way out of his predicament

PETER:
You call me a spy, but I'm a man so soft and weak,
For years I have been hiding as a rat
Animagi abiding my own time
But my cover's blown and all my crimes I now must own

I saw a Lord who was bound to win
And though I felt some chagrin
I knew I must double-cross every ally
For You-Know-Who went I.

I see a boy looking hard at me,
An orphan granting mercy
From Lupin and Black who both think I should die
For You-Know-Who went I

Angry men surround me, who will turn me in,
But chance may unbound me, via Remus Lupin
He is a man who was in such haste his potion he did not taste
I gave them the slip as I uttered this cry:
"For You-Know-Who go I!"

As Lupin changes to a wolf, Peter transforms into a rat and flees

Glide an' Get 'Em! (PoA, Chap 20-21)

To the tune of The Chase

THE SCENE: The grounds of Hogwarts. Sirius, Hermione and HARRY are surrounded by a swarm of angry Dementors. Sirius & Hermione lose consciousness, leaving HARRY to face them alone.

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS
Harry Potter! Harry Potter!
Glide an' get 'em! Get 'em!
Glide an' get em! Get 'em!
Glide, dementors, they will not dismay again our fury!
Glide an' get 'em! Get 'em!
Glide an' get 'em! Get 'em!
Glide, ye putrid ghouls, we have three souls to snatch away!

HARRY (to himself):
Expecto Patronum, concentrate with all your might upon it,laddie.
Happy thoughts, we'll show them, live with Black if I can center on it, laddie!

The CHIEF DEMENTOR brushes away HARRY'S ineffective Patronus, and reaches menacingly for him

CHIEF DEMENTOR
Your patron is too weak, these dead hands, my impure rot, you cannae fight it.
Hear your ma's dying shrieks!
Give up, lad, for your soul is ever ever mine!

The CHIEF DEMENTOR unveils itself, revealing its terrifying visage. It raises HARRY aloft, preparing to deliver the dreaded Kiss.

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS:
Raise an' kiss 'im! Kiss 'im!
Raise an' kiss 'im! Kiss 'im!
Raise an' kiss that kid and satisfy our raving hunger!
Raise an' kiss 'im! Kiss 'im!
Raise an' kiss 'im! Kiss 'im!
Kiss, ye Island fiend, and suck his sacred soul away!

The CHIEF DEMENTOR is on the verge of administering the Kiss when it is driven back by an outburst of intense silvery light. It drops HARRY, and rapidly withdraws, followed by the other dementors. HARRY faints. The blinding light fills the entire screen, then very slowly fades to MADAM POMFREY'S infirmary. We discover HARRY & HERMIONE in adjoining hospital beds, gradually returning to full consciousness. DUMBLEDORE & POMFREY are beside the bed, SNAPE & FUDGE are preparing to exit.

FUDGE (to SNAPE, as discernable motion returns to the screen):
Yours is an action deserving the Merlin First-Class
Black and dementors attacked, but you saved those kids' ass.

SNAPE:
Confundus Charms against Harry made his young mind bent
He'd been deceived to think that Black was quite innocent

Exit SNAPE & FUDGE

POMFREY:
Rest, children, chomp chocolate, its proverbial high may you relish all it
Black now soon must submit to the kiss that dementors shall hellishly fit.

HARRY & HERMIONE jump from their respective beds to protest to DUMBLEDORE

DUMBLEDORE
Though it may be very true that Black is innocent
To force others to see truth cannot be my intent…..
(to HERMIONE) But he may live tomorrow
If you have the time.
Take that which you have borrowed
Go back when it's Nine!

HERMIONE & DUMBLEDORE
Turn the Turner!
Turn the Turner!
Turn the Turner, and we yet may save two guiltless parties
Turn the Turner!
Turn the Turner!
Come, leave Dumble now/ Go with Hermy now, we/you yet shall save the day!

HERMIONE throws the Time-Turner around HARRY'S confused neck - the two vanish.

Turn Back the Clock (PoA, Chap 21)

To the tune of Down in MacConnachy Square (reprised)

THE SCENE: Pomfrey's infirmary. With the Time-Turner, HARRY & HERMIONE have traveled three hours back to rescue Black & Buckbeak

HERMIONE:
I've turned back the clock!
Reversed its tick-tock!
For to help me learn
This Time-Turn
I had earned.
Once more Nine at night!
Keep ye out of sight!
Three hours we've gone back:
We've returned
We're on track
To save both Buckbeak and Black

HARRY:
Now we will make off for Hagrid's hut
Poor Bucky they'd terminate
We'll save him from the stern axeman's cut,
That 'griff we will liberate.

HERMIONE:
And then with the hippogriff in tow
We'll go to free Black to boot
Right to the West Tower we will go
So Bucky and Black can scoot

Segue to HARRY standing on the opposite lakeshore, watching himself surrounded by dementors

HARRY II (watching from across the shore):
Dementors attacked!
Something drove them back
I think that it had
To have been
Dear old dad

Hey, where are ye, dad?
Come and save your lad!
Dad, your son restore!

HARRY I (facing the dementors)
Oh comfort there is none
I cannot run!
Oh come and rescue James' son!
Oh help me people,
Help me, I implore!

HARRY I & II
Come again
Declare war
On those fiendish dementors

HARRY II
Suddenly this thought I got
It was not daddy

HARRY I
I'm trapped in here!

HARRY II:
Suddenly I plainly see
It was me, Harry!
EXPECTO P!

The Patronus PRONGS emerges from HARRY'S wand with a blinding incandescence. PRONGS drives the dementors back, then returns to face HARRY

HARRY II & PRONGS:
EXPECTO P!
Dementors, flee!
Out the door!

HARRY II:
It was I myself that I was spyin'
A time-travel paradox
And all because Hermy turned the time
I cleaned those dementors' clocks.
In using the spell that Lupin taught
I knew I could not go wrong
A bonnie fair Patron bravely fought
That looks like my father Prongs

Segue to the West Tower. HARRY & HERMIONE, on Buckbeak's back, rescue SIRIUS

HARRY & HERMIONE (simultaneous with below)
You who are locked inside the tower
Who go by the name of Black
For thanks to a gift of chronic power
Do your disappearing act!
The two of ye must be leavin' soon
For Snapey and Fudge are nigh
The hippo is better than a broom
When what ye must do is fly!

Your soul has been saved!
Our goodbyes we wave!

BLACK: (simultaneous with above)
Come ye with the 'griff!
No ands buts or ifs!
I'll not be undone!
Truly you're
James' son.

Tis better than a broom,
Skywards we'll loom!
The hippo's ready now to zoom

Oh farewell Hogwarts

BLACK soars off on Buckbeak, HARRY & HERMIONE wave their goodbyes

HARRY & HERMIONE:
Three hours we went back
We time-turned
With impact
To free both Bucky and Black!

Once Here at Hogwarts (PoA, Chap 21)

To the tune of Once on This Island - reprise

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS (off camera, singing as if from a great distance)
Once here at Hogwarts, one summer at Hogwarts
To be specific, in Volume Three
Right here at Hogwarts, this summer at Hogwarts
Two wizards set each other free

On camera, we see DUMBLEDORE, FUDGE, SNAPE enter Flitwick's office. FUDGE & SNAPE fly into an astonished rage when they find it empty, as DUMBLEDORE observes them wryly. CUT TO the West Tower: BLACK lands Buckbeak, HARRY runs toward him, and they embrace for a brief moment before BLACK takes off again

You saw how it happened,
You saw just how it happened,
How this man and boy became family ……

Brink o' Doom (PoA, Chap 21)

To the title tune of Brigadoon - reprise

Cut to HARRY & HERMIONE, on the castle embattlements, gazing skywards

HARRY:
Brink o' doom, brink o' doom

HERMIONE:
On your precipice we stood

RON: (at Pomfrey's infirmary, looking out the window)
Give us room, give us room

DUMBLEDORE (looking out from Flitwick's office)
To fight evil and strive for good

HAGRID (in front of his cabin, gazing skywards)
May our feet stay firmly grounded

MOONY (deep in the Forbidden Forest, gazing skywards)
As our souls through the sky soar

THE PATRONUS (in the shape of Prongs, gazing skywards)
Brink o' doom, brink o' doom

WORMTAIL (deep in the Forbidden Forest, gazing skywards)
As I bring you to the brink of war

The camera pans skyward until we see Sirius and Buckbeak flying before the full moon then disappearing into a cloud with the final crescendo.

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