HARRY AND GINNY POTTER’S HOUSE, KITCHEN
HARRY, RON, HERMIONE, and GINNY sit, eating together.
HERMIONE: I’ve told Draco again and again — no one in the Ministry is saying
anything about Scorpius. The rumors aren’t coming from us.
GINNY: I wrote to him — after he lost Astoria — to ask if there’s anything we
could do. I thought maybe — as he was such a good friend to Albus —
maybe Scorpius might want to stay over part of the Christmas break
or . . . My owl came back with a letter containing one simple sentence:
“Tell your husband to refute these allegations about my son once and
for all.”
HERMIONE: He’s obsessed.
GINNY: He’s a mess — a grieving mess.
RON: And I’m sorry for his loss but when he accuses Hermione of . . . Well . . .
(He looks across at HARRY.) Oi droopy drawers, like I say to her all the
time, it could be nothing.
HERMIONE: Her?
RON: The trolls could be going to a party, the giants to a wedding, you could be
getting bad dreams because you’re worried about Albus, and your scar
could be hurting because you’re getting old.
HARRY: Getting old? Thanks, mate.