Scene
A stadium full of parents, students and teachers. Albus
Dumbledore, Madame Maxime, and Professor Karkaroff are
sitting in the front row. Severus Snape is sitting directly
behind Albus. At left there is a tall hedge with a gap in the
middle. Harry Potter, Viktor Krum, Cedric Diggory, Fleur
Delacour, and Ludo Bagman are standing at the gap.
LUDO BAGMAN
Ladies and Gentlemen, the third, and final task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament is about to begin! Tied for first place with 85 points apiece, are Mr. Cedric Diggory, and Mr. Harry Potter, both of Hogwarts School.
(Applause)
In Second Place, with 80 points, Mr. Viktor Krum of Durmstrang Institute.
(Applause)
And in third place, Miss Fleur Delacour of Beauxbatons Academy.
(Applause)
So, on my whistle, Harry and Cedric! Three, two, one...
Whistle Blasts. Harry and Cedric enter.
SEVERUS SNAPE
So, what all has been put into that maze, Albus?
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
All sorts of things, Hagrid was allowed to bring in lots of creatures and Filius added a few enchantments as well.
Whistle Blast. Viktor Enters.
Whistle Blast. Fleur Enters.
"Expecto Patronum!"
SEVERUS SNAPE
Dementors?
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Most certainly not. Perhaps it could be Potter's boggart.
Scream.
CORNELIUS FUDGE
Good heavens! Who was that!
SEVERUS SNAPE
Sounded like Fleur.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
It did sound like her. I hope she is alright.
"Stupefy!" "Impedimenta!" "Impedimenta"
CORNELIUS FUDGE
This maze is safe, isn't it, Albus?
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Yes, and we have Alastor patrolling, so he can see in to help if anything gets too bad.
Tortured screaming
CORNELIUS FUDGE
That, Dumbledore?
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
I have no idea, hopefully it's just someones boggart.
Red Sparks Projected onto the curtain behind the maze wall.
SEVERUS SNAPE
Well, at least the student is alright and not knocked unconscious or anything.
CORNELIUS FUDGE
Yes, but I doubt any of these students would have to be taken out of the maze because of a boggart.
"Cedric!" "Stupefy!" "Stupefy!" "Impedimenta!" "Stupefy!"
"Stupefy!" "Expelliarmus" "Stupefy!"
The whole maze gets eerily quiet. After a minute whispering
begins in the crowd.
OLYMPE MAXIME
Dumbledore, It has been at least ten minuets since anything has happened...since we have heard anything.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
I know, but we should know if someone completed the maze. Surely they all haven't been hurt.
CORNELIUS FUDGE
Perhaps, someone should check on them.
SEVERUS SNAPE
Would you like me to notify Alastor?
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
I will in a minute.
Severus lets out a gasp of pain and grasps his left forearm.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Are you alright, Severus?
SEVERUS SNAPE
(quietly)
I believe...he has returned.
Scene
All is the same, except Harry Potter is now on the ground
in front of the maze on top of the motionless Cedric Diggory.
Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, and Cornelius Fudge rush
forward from their seats. Alastor Moody, Minerva McGonagall,
and Rubeus Hagrid rush out from stage left. Igor Karkaroff
sneaks off at stage right.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Harry, Harry!
HARRY POTTER
(distressed)
He's back. He's back. Voldemort!
CORNELIUS FUDGE
What's going on? What happened? My God, Diggory! Dumbledore, he's dead!
Yells of "He's dead!" "Cedric Diggory" "Dead!" fill the air.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Harry, let go of him. Harry, you can't help him now. It's over let go.
HARRY POTTER
He waned me to bring him back. He wanted me to bring him back, back to his parents.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
That's right, Harry. Just let go now.
(picks up Harry and sets him on his feet)
More yelling. "What's happened?" "What's wrong?" "Diggory's dead!"
CORNELIUS FUDGE
He'll need to go to the hospital wing! He's ill, he's injured. Dumbledore, Diggory's parents, they're here, they're in the stands.
ALASTOR MOODY
I'll take Harry, Dumbledore. I'll take him.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
No, I would prefer.
CORNELIUS FUDGE
Dumbledore, Amos Diggory's running. He's coming over. Don't you think you should tell him before he sees?
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Harry stay here.
People in the stands are sobbing and screaming. Alastor
leads Harry away at right.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Minerva, can you get Ponoma to take Cedric's parents to room 11. Hagrid please take Cedric there as well. Cornelius, help me to control the students and get them all back into the great hall. The house elves have prepared, well it no longer is much of a celebratory feast, but food for them.
Hagrid, carrying Cedric, Ponoma Sprout, and the Diggorys exit at right.
CORNELIUS FUDGE
Sonorus! Everyone please, listen up.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Sonorus! Quiet! Please, everyone follow Professor Flitwick and Mr. Fudge to the Great Hall. Quietus!
(turning to Minerva and Severus)
Where is Harry!
SEVERUS SNAPE
Potter?
MINERVA MCGONAGALL
I believe I saw Alastor taking him back to the castle.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Oh no! This cannot be good!
Scene
In the Defense Against the Dark Arts office. Harry Potter
is sitting down and Alastor Moody stands over him. Albus
Dumbledore shouts "stupefy" from off stage (right). Alastor
falls over unconscious behind a trunk unseen to the audience
and Albus, Minerva McGonagall, and Severus Snape walk in
(all furious). Minerva walks over to Harry.
During the dialog Alastor goes into the trunk and Barty Crouch
Jr. dressed in the same outfit as Alastor takes his place unseen
to the audience.
MINERVA MCGONAGALL
(upset)
Come along, Potter. Come along, hospital wing.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
No!
MINERVA MCGONAGALL
Dumbledore, he ought - look at him - he's been through enough.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
He will stay Minerva. He needs to understand. Understanding is the first step to acceptance and only with acceptance can there be recovery. He needs to know who put him through all this, and why.
HARRY POTTER
(disbelieving)
Moody. How can it have been Moody?
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
This is not Alastor Moody. You have never known Alastor Moody. The real Moody would not have removed you from my sight after what happened tonight. When he took you, I knew and followed.
By this time Alastor and Barty have moved into their respective
positions and Albus reaches down into Barty's coat and pulls out
a hip flask and a set of keys setting the flask on the table. The
audience still is unaware of the change in characters.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Severus I am going to need some Veritaserum.
SEVERUS SNAPE
Yes, sir. I have some with me
(pulls out a small vial or clear liquid)
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Thank you.
(takes the vial and sets it on the table next to the hip flask
then takes the keys and opens the trunk and pulling out an
unconscious Alastor from inside and setting him on the floor)
Stunned - controlled by the Imperius Curse - very weak. Madame Pomfrey will need to see him.
MINERVA MCGONAGALL
What the! But Albus, Alastor is, he's - he's there, right there, on the ground!
Albus picks up the hip flask and dumps a thick, clumpy liquid onto the desk.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Polyjuice potion.
MINERVA MCGONAGALL
But of course! So then, who is that?
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
I think that perhaps our friend here may not have taken his potion every hour as he should have with all the excitement tonight, see?
Harry discreetly pushes the trunk so the audience can now see Barty laying there
SEVERUS SNAPE
Crouch! Barty Crouch!
MINERVA MCGONAGALL
Good heavens! But Albus, didn't he die... years ago?
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Well, apparently not, although, perhaps he can explain better.
Albus takes the Veritaserum off the table and pours it into Barty's
mouth. He then points his wand at Barty saying 'Ennervate.'
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
I would like you to tell us how you came to be here. How did you escape Azkaban?
BARTY CROUCH JR.
(sitting up, voice is flat and expressionless)
My mother saved me. She knew she was dying. She persuaded my father to rescue me as a last favor to her. He loved her as he had never loved me. They came to visit me. My mother and I each took a draft of Polyjuice potion. We took on each other's appearance. The dementors are blind. The sensed one healthy, one dying person entering Azkaban. They sensed one healthy, one dying person leaving it. I was disguised as my mother in case any prisoners were watching out they're doors. My mother died shortly afterward. She was buried under my name and my appearance. Everyone believed her to be me.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
And what did your father do with you, when he had got you home?
BARTY CROUCH JR.
Staged my mother's death. A quiet private funeral. The grave is empty. I had to be nursed back to health. Then I had to be concealed. I had to be controlled. My father had to use a number of spells to subdue me. When I had recovered my strength I only thought of returning to my master.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
How did your father subdue you?
BARTY CROUCH JR.
The Imperious Curse. I was under my father's control. I was forced to wear an Invisibility Cloak day and night. And then...and then
(an insane grin on his face)
my master came for me. He arrived at night in the arms of his servant Wormtail. My master had found out I was alive. He had found out that the Triwizard Tournament was to take place at Hogwarts. He found out that the old Auror, Moody, was going to teach at Hogwarts. He found that my father was keeping me imprisoned here to prevent me from seeking my master. He knew that I was his most faithful. My master conceived a plan. He needed me. He put my father under an Imperious Curse. My master forced him to go about work as usual, as though nothing was wrong. I was released. I awoke, I was myself again, alive as I hadn't been in years.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
And what did Lord Voldemort ask you to do?
BARTY CROUCH JR.
He needed a faithful servant at Hogwarts. A servant who would guide Harry Potter through the Triwizard Tournament without appearing to do so. Ensure he would reach the Triwizard Cup. Turn the cup into a Portkey, which would take the first person to touch it to my master.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
So you needed Alastor Moody.
BARTY CROUCH JR.
Wormtail and I did it. We made the Polyjuice Potion beforehand. We journeyed to his house. Moody put up a struggle. We managed to subdue him just in time. Forced him into a compartment of his own magical trunk. Took some of his hair and added it to the potion. I drank it; I became Moody's double. I took his leg and his eye. I was ready to face Arthur Weasley when he arrived to sort out the Muggles who had heard us. I told him I'd heard intruders and they set off my dustbins. Then I packed up Moody's clothes and Dark detectors, put them in the trunk with Moody. I needed his hair for the potion. And I needed to question him, to learn his habits, his past so I could fool even Dumbledore.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
And tonight?
BARTY CROUCH JR.
I offered to carry the Triwizard Cup into the maze before dinner. Turned it into a Portkey. My master's plan worked. He is returned to power and I will be honored by him beyond the dreams of wizards.
Barty passes out. Albus stands up.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Minerva, could I ask you to stand guard here while I take Harry upstairs?
MINERVA MCGONAGALL
(takes out wand and points it at Barty)
Of course
SEVERUS SNAPE
Severus, please tell Madam Pomfrey to come down here, we need to get Alastor Moody into the hospital wing. Then go to the grounds, find Cornelius Fudge, and bring him up to this office. He will undoubtedly want to question Crouch himself. Tell him I will be in the hospital wing in half an hour's time if he needs me.
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