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Act III
Open on the Shrieking Shack. Pan down to reveal Ginny asleep on a dusty old table. She suddenly jerks awake, sits up, begins to do a ballet dance. She leaps down off the table and is confronted by one of the Death Eaters. They do a ballet-ish dance that basically represents Ginny trying to escape and the Death Eater stopping her. The other two Death Eaters appear and join the dance. They surround Ginny as she huddles close to the floor. Then they fling her and she goes sliding across the floor, stopping beside a raised dais circled by some stairs. We see Voldemort's feet in black-and-white dance shoes, with devil red pants underneath red robes. He begins to do a tap-dance number, dances down the stairs and toward Ginny. Meanwhile the camera moves up to reveal the rest of Voldemort. He dances around to the other side of Ginny.
Song: "That's What It's All About."
VOLDEMORT:
Don't try to run away,
I've known you for a ... while
He snaps his fingers and his red robes/ pants turn to blue.
VOLDEMORT:
I remember a day,
You and I had...
He points his wand up to his face, pulls off his mouth and holds the disembodied mouth in Ginny's face. She stares in shock as the mouth continues singing.
VOLDEMORT: ...shared a smile.
The mouth disappears from his hand and reappears in its normal place.
VOLDEMORT:
A memory and
An incantation
Now I'm here strictly by your
Invocation [holds up a scroll covered with writing]
So what do you say?
Why don't we dance awhile?
He dances over to Ginny, gestures at her, then dances away again.
VOLDEMORT:
I pulled your heart strings
I was there for your crying bouts
[tap-dances]
Those juvenile things,
Made me want to... scream and shout.
[shot of the three Death Eaters dancing to the tune]
But you called me so I came a-running [dances back toward Ginny]
And I don't think you only wanted some loving
[makes a string-pulling gesture at Ginny, who gets up]
Now we're partyin'
That's what it's all about. [chuckles]
He dances toward Ginny and she dances backward.
VOLDEMORT: 'Cause I know ... what you feel, girl.
He puts his arms around her and they dance together. Ginny looks scared.
VOLDEMORT: I know just what you feel, girl.
He spins Ginny away, she dances a few steps away from him.
GINNY: (spoken, nervous) So ... you're here for happy reasons? Just reminiscing? [Voldemort laughs, shakes his head "no."]
VOLDEMORT:
All these memories ... [Ginny sits]
We've gone on too long
You have energy
[Death Eaters doing a dance-fight]
But you're scared you'll use it wrong
And I'm here to tell you, there is no such thing.
[a door appears beside Voldemort, he reaches for the knob]
But why do some customers just start combusting?
Voldemort opens the door and a charred smoking thing falls through it. It's Fawkes, his little baby self croaking pitifully. Ginny stares in horror.
VOLDEMORT:
That's the penalty [dances back over to her]
When you don't want to play along.
[dancing up very close to Ginny, she looks very nervous]
And why you called me I think that I see
And that's all right by me
Back I will floo to my kingdom with you
And take you as my queen
Voldemort makes a gesture and Ginny's school robes turn to a satiny set of dress robes, baby blue with silver trim.
VOLDEMORT: 'Cause I know what you feel, girl
[dances up onto the dais]
GINNY:
No, you see
You and me
Wouldn't be very regal
VOLDEMORT: I'll make it real, girl
[dancing around the dais]
GINNY:
What I mean
I'm fifteen
So this queen thing's illegal
VOLDEMORT: [jumps back onto the floor]
You poured your heart out into my journal
And now in your head I'm your love eternal
GINNY:
It's no con,
My brother Ron,
Though he thinks I'm such a bother;
VOLDEMORT: [dancing around her]
Something's cooking, I'm at the griddle
You knew me as Tom Marvolo Riddle
GINNY:
He'll get pissed
If I'm missed
See, his best friend's Harry Potter
Voldemort stops in mid-kick, looks surprised, stops dancing, turns to Ginny.
VOLDEMORT: (spoken) Harry Potter?
GINNY: (nods, nervously) Yuh-huh.
VOLDEMORT: (chuckles, turns to minions) Find him. Tell him ... tell him everything. (Ginny looks nervous) Just get him here. I want to see the Potter kid burn.
Ginny looks alarmed.
VOLDEMORT: (sings) Now we're partying. That's what it's all about.
End of song "That's What It's All About."
Cut to Hogwarts Castle. Lupin and Harry are in what looks like a workout room. Lupin holds a large piece of wood. Harry uses his wand and a spell cuts it in two.
LUPIN: Good. Good.
HARRY: I feel like I should ... bow, or ... have honor or something.
LUPIN: It may seem hokey, but we need to work on Muggle dueling, precision, and concentration as much as magic power. (goes to put the wood down) We're still not sure what we're facing.
HARRY: (puts one leg up on the horse, stretches) Oh, you'll figure it out. I'm just worried this whole session's gonna turn into some training montage from an 80's movie.
LUPIN: Ah. Well, if we hear any inspirational power chords, we'll just lie down until they go away. (picks up a towel) Anyway, I don't think we need to work that much on your magic strength.
HARRY: Yeah, I'm pretty spry for a muggle. (levitating himself upon the horse)
LUPIN: (pauses) Have you spoken to Dumbledore about that incident at Halloween?
Harry leaps down from the horse, frowns.
HARRY: Oh. I thought you took care of that. (stretching his arms)
LUPIN: (softly) Right.
HARRY: (oblivious) What would I do without you?
Lupin looks thoughtful, turns and begins to walk toward a set of weapons in a display case on the wall.
HARRY: Okay. I'm ready.
Song: "Standing In The Way"
LUPIN:
You're not ready for the world at all
You keep obsessing, on Sirius' fall
[picks up something from weapons case]
It won't be long before you leave this castle's halls
[walks toward Harry]
But I...
Lupin throws a small knife at Harry. He leans backward, lets it fly past him.
LUPIN:
You're pained and grieving, and you hide it still
[throws another knife, which he deflects with a spell]
And you can beat it, but you never will
[walking back toward the weapons]
Unless you use your own two feet to find your will
[looks at him as he stands waiting]
And I...
[walks back, throws another knife, Harry deflects it aside with a slow-motion wand movement and spell]
LUPIN:
I wish I could say the right words
To give you peace at last.
[Harry still casting in slo-mo]
Wish I could take your father
And bring him from the past.
[reaching out his hand, then pulls it back]
Wish I could stay here
But now I'm learning fast
[walks closer as Harry does a handspring and then a split in slo-mo]
That I'm standing in the way.
As Lupin continues singing, we cut to the classroom. Neville walks in as Susan has her back turned. Susan doesn't see Neville.
LUPIN: You always wanted to be on your own.
Neville walks quickly toward the back, crying, looking at the herb in his hand, begins to climb up the ladder in front of the bookcase.
LUPIN: And you have your friends, but you feel all alone.
Cut back to the workout room. Lupin walks around the perimeter in regular speed as Harry does flips across the center of the room in slo-mo.
LUPIN:
And if I stay you're not gonna work it on your own
But I...
[Harry punching the punching bag in slo-mo as Lupin walks around him]
I wish I could lay your wand down
And let you rest at last
Wish I could slay their Dark Hearts
But now that time has passed
Wish I could stay here
Like Hogwarts, standing fast
But I'm standing in the way.
Harry walks right up in front of Lupin, shaking his hair out, still in slo-mo.
LUPIN: I'm just standing ... in the way.
End of song "Standing In The Way."
Harry returns to regular speed.
HARRY: (spoken) Did you just say something?