SCENE ONE
#2 Intro to "Jimmy Potter" (Orchestra)
(SLIDE: GODRIC'S HOLLOW.
The front door of the POTTER's semi-detached home – 666 Godric's Hollow. VERNON DURSLEY comes down the street and knocks on the door. LILY emerges. UNCLE VERNON proudly conjures up food from a shopping bag.)
UNCLE VERNON
Sardines! An egg! Un demi-litre du lait!
LILY
Bless you, Vernon.
(LILY goes back into the house. UNCLE VERNON claps his hands together and starts to leave. REMUS and SIRIUS enter, very distraught, and approach the house. UNCLE VERNON recognizes them and stops. REMUS crosses to the front door with a parcel and knocks.)
#2A Jimmy Potter (Sirius, Remus)
SIRIUS
(To us)
JIMMY POTTER DIDN'T COME HOME.
HIS UNBORN CHILD WILL NEVER KNOW HIM.
(LILY reappears.)
REMUS
(To Lily)
BELIEVE HIM MISSING WITH A NUMBER OF MEN.
DON'T EXPECT TO SEE HIM AGAIN.
(UNCLE VERNON starts to cross to LILY. HE stops and looks away, unable to control himself due to his own grief for his wife's sister. LILY takes the papers from REMUS and without looking at them or her brother-in-law steps back into the house out of view. REMUS starts to follow her into the house but the door closes. HE sadly walks back to join SIRIUS who pulls out a pint bottle of whiskey and presses it into UNCLE VERNON'S hand.)
SIRIUS
JIMMY POTTER DIDN'T COME HOME.
JIMMY POTTER DIDN'T COME HOME.
JIMMY POTTER DIDN'T COME HOME.
HIS UNBORN CHILD WILL NEVER KNOW HIM.
REMUS
(Overlapping, Simultaneous with above)
JIMMY POTTER DIDN'T COME HOME.
JIMMY POTTER DIDN'T COME HOME.
JIMMY POTTER,
HIS UNBORN CHILD WILL NEVER KNOW HIM.
(REMUS and SIRIUS walk off, comforting each other. UNCLE VERNON looks down at the pint bottle. HE slowly opens it and takes a quick shot. He pockets the bottle. He stands in anguish for a moment, takes the bottle out again, removes the cap, tips back the bottle and has a long drink. The front door disappears. UNCLE VERNON is now isolated with the bottle.
Simultaneously, a stretch of barbed wire appears in the back ground. Behind it, a line of Order members, now prisoners of the Death Eaters and Voldemort, shuffles by in silhouette, ankles and wrists chained together. A DEATH EATER nudges them along. PETER drags another prisoner behind. It's the Stunned JAMES.
SLIDE: 1980
PETER drops JAMES' body on the ground and walks off. His image remains there.)
END OF SCENE ONE
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