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0:00What if Hogwarts was forced to watch
0:01Harry's memories? Let's explore the
0:03depths of it in the video.
0:06That morning on the Hogwarts Express,
0:08Harry Potter stares at the Daily Profit.
0:10The headline calls him a liar again.
0:13>> I wish they could just see it
0:15once.
0:17>> Nobody hears him. Something very old
0:19does.
0:20That night, at the start of term feast,
0:22the seat beside Harry stays empty.
0:24Nobody wants to sit next to the liar.
0:27>> My mum nearly didn't let me come back
0:30because of him.
0:32>> Say it to his face, Seamus.
0:34>> At the staff table, a woman in a fluffy
0:36pink cardigan interrupts the headmaster.
0:39>> Hem hem. Progress for progress's sake
0:41must be discouraged, children.
0:44>> A new prefect's badge glints on
0:46Slytherin green. Draconis Malfoy raises
0:49her voice.
0:50>> Lying again, Potter?
0:52>> The Slytherin table howls. Harry's ears
0:54burn.
0:56>> Go on, Malfoy. Read me the Profit.
0:59You've clearly memorized it.
1:01>> Then every candle in the Great Hall
1:03gutters out at once. The great doors
1:05slam, locks turn by themselves.
1:08The enchanted ceiling turns silver and
1:10begins to swirl.
1:12>> That isn't weather. That's the surface
1:14of a Pensieve.
1:16>> On its stool, the Sorting Hat sits up.
1:18Doubt him once and see him whole.
1:21Above 900 faces, a picture begins to
1:23form.
1:25A cupboard under the stairs, a thin camp
1:27bed, spiders in the corners, a small boy
1:30curled under a blanket too short for
1:32him.
1:33And the whole hall feels it, the cold,
1:35the dark, the waiting for somebody to
1:37unlock the door.
1:39>> I can feel it. Why can I feel it?
1:42>> Oh no, somebody turn it off.
1:44Please.
1:45>> Harry, you said you had a bedroom.
1:47>> I did. Eventually, Dudley's second one.
1:51>> On the ceiling, a letter drops onto the
1:53doormat, green ink, addressed to the
1:55cupboard under the stairs, number four,
1:58Privet Drive.
1:59>> That letter
2:00>> out under my name.
2:02The word cupboard was written on the
2:03envelope, and not one of us went to
2:05look.
2:06>> Professor, it's fine. It was years ago.
2:10>> It is not fine, Potter. It is the
2:12furthest thing from fine.
2:14>> Draconian Malfoy has a bedroom in
2:16Wiltshire the size of the Gryffindor
2:17common room. She pulls her cloak tight
2:20and cannot get warm.
2:22>> Bit dramatic, isn't it? Lots of people
2:24have small rooms.
2:26>> Not now, Pansy.
2:28>> Harry turns to the staff table, red to
2:30the collar.
2:32>> Professor Dumbledore, please make it
2:34stop.
2:35>> Dumbledore keeps his eyes on the ceiling
2:37and does not answer.
2:39The cold breaks, a hut on a rock, a
2:42storm, the door smashed off its hinges
2:45and a giant holding a squashed birthday
2:47cake.
2:48>> You're a wizard, Harry.
2:50>> Warmth pours through the hall like a
2:51hearth just lit. The Gryffindor table
2:53erupts, so does Hufflepuff.
2:56>> That was the best night of my life. He
2:58sat on the cake.
2:59>> Hem hem. This is an unauthorized display
3:02of a disturbed boy's fantasies. The
3:04minister will hear of it at once.
3:07>> A silver cat bursts from her wand and
3:08streaks through the wall. 10 minutes
3:10later, the great doors swing open for
3:12exactly one man.
3:14>> Dumbledore, what in Merlin's name is
3:16going on here?
3:18>> Cornelius Fudge strides in, sod on his
3:20shoulders, lime green bowler askew.
3:23Behind him, the doors slam shut and
3:25lock.
3:26>> Open those at once. I am the minister
3:28for magic.
3:29>> I'm afraid the castle isn't taking
3:31instructions tonight, Cornelius. Not
3:34even mine.
3:35>> Well, let me be perfectly clear to every
3:37child in this room. He who must not be
3:39named is not back. Whatever this is, it
3:42proves nothing.
3:43>> Then sit down and watch, minister.
3:45You'll have a very dull evening.
3:47>> I shall stand, thank you.
3:49>> The ceiling ripples, the Hogwarts
3:51Express, 4 years ago, a pale little girl
3:54in a compartment doorway, two boys
3:56behind her like wardrobes.
3:58In the Slytherin seats, Draco's stomach
4:01drops. She knows this compartment.
4:04>> Red hair, freckles, and a hand-me-down
4:06robe.
4:07You must be a Weasley.
4:09>> The 11-year-old turns to Harry and holds
4:11out her hand.
4:12>> You'll soon find some families are
4:14better than others, Potter. I can help
4:16you there.
4:16>> I think I can tell who the wrong sort
4:18are for myself, thanks.
4:20>> The hall feels what the boy felt, a
4:22small, hot flare of loyalty for the
4:24first friend he has ever had.
4:27>> Oh, Draconia, look at your little face.
4:30You were adorable.
4:32>> Brilliant, hand-me-down robes in front
4:34of the whole school.
4:36Cheers, Castle.
4:38>> Draconia hears her own voice from
4:40Harry's side of the compartment. It
4:42sounds exactly like her father's.
4:44>> Was I really that awful?
4:46>> Yes. Still are, most days.
4:48>> Charming, Weasley.
4:50>> Then a dark, disused classroom, a tall
4:53golden mirror, a boy in pajamas with his
4:55hand pressed flat to the glass.
4:58In the mirror, a woman with red hair and
5:00a man with untidy black hair wave at
5:02him. The hall feels the ache, and not
5:04one person speaks.
5:07>> He isn't looking at himself. He's
5:08looking at them.
5:10>> I was there the second night.
5:12I told him not to go back, and all I
5:13cared about was seeing myself as Head
5:15Boy.
5:16>> I told him off for wandering at night. I
5:18never asked what he saw.
5:20>> Because it was mine.
5:21It was the only thing that was mine.
5:24>> Draconia's mother is alive in Wiltshire,
5:26probably writing to her this very
5:28minute. She stares at the boy in pajamas
5:30and swallows hard.
5:32The ceiling darkens to fire, a stone
5:34chamber. Professor Quirrell unwinding
5:36his turban. On the back of his head is a
5:38second face, white and flat with red
5:41slits for eyes.
5:43>> See what I have become, Harry Potter.
5:46>> Pain splits every forehead in the hall
5:48at once. Students clutch their faces. A
5:51first year starts to cry.
5:53>> A trick of the light, a nightmare
5:55dressed up to frighten the little ones.
5:57>> Quite right, Dolores. Quirrell died of
5:59natural causes. The Prophet said so.
6:02>> His skin blistered every time I touched
6:04him, Minister, the Prophet left that bit
6:06out.
6:07>> Then why can every single one of us feel
6:09his scar burning, Minister?
6:11>> Mass hysteria, miss. Whoever you are.
6:13>> Her name's Hermione Granger, and she's
6:15been right about everything since first
6:17year.
6:18>> Hem hem. Five points from Gryffindor for
6:20cheek, dear. You will not take a single
6:22point in this hall tonight, Dolores.
6:26>> Draconis rubs her own forehead and looks
6:28across the hall at the empty seat beside
6:30Harry.
6:31>> He was 11. Pansy, he was 11.
6:34>> 900 people have just watched an
6:3611-year-old boy face Lord Voldemort
6:38alone, and there are three more years to
6:40go.
6:42Year two arrives on the ceiling, and
6:44Draco Malfoy knows exactly which morning
6:46it is going to show.
6:48The Quidditch pitch, early in grey.
6:50Seven Slytherins in new green robes,
6:53seven gleaming brooms, and a 12-year-old
6:55Draco out in front.
6:57>> Oh, I remember this one. You were
7:00brilliant. Wait for it.
7:03>> On the ceiling, Hermione says the
7:05Slytherins bought their places. Little
7:07Draco smirks.
7:09>> No one asked your opinion, you filthy
7:12little.
7:13>> She finishes it. The word rings off the
7:15stone, and every person present feels
7:17what Harry felt. Confusion first, then
7:20the uproar, then a hot, sick fury.
7:24At the Gryffindor table, Hermione keeps
7:25her eyes on her plate. She doesn't need
7:27to look up. Everyone else is looking at
7:30her. Then it's Slytherin.
7:32>> I'm fine. Honestly, I'm fine.
7:35>> She was 12.
7:3712, and she said it like she was
7:39ordering tea.
7:40>> Ron tried to curse her for it. It
7:42backfired. Slugs all afternoon.
7:45>> Yeah, thanks, Neville. Everyone always
7:47remembers the slugs.
7:49>> Draconis's cheeks burn. She has said
7:51that word in the dungeons more times
7:53than she can count, and laughed every
7:55time. She has never had to feel it land.
7:58The castle gives it to her whole.
8:00Harry's confusion curdling into rage on
8:02a friend's behalf. It tastes like rust.
8:06She stands. Pansy grabs at her sleeve.
8:09>> Sit down. Everyone's watching.
8:11>> Good.
8:12>> They should be.
8:14>> The hall hushes, a Slytherin prefect on
8:16her feet facing the Gryffindor table.
8:19>> Granger, that word.
8:21I was 12 and that's no excuse
8:24because I knew exactly what it meant and
8:27I wanted it to.
8:29>> Her voice gives out. She stands there
8:31with her mouth open and nothing left in
8:32it.
8:33>> You don't have to finish it tonight,
8:35Malfoy.
8:35>> I do, though. I just can't.
8:37>> Then finish it when you can.
8:39I'll know if you mean it.
8:41>> Hermione,
8:42she called you.
8:43>> I know what she called me. Ronald, I was
8:45there tonight. So was she.
8:49>> Draconis sits down hard. Across the
8:51hall, Ron is staring at her as if she
8:53has started speaking Mermish.
8:55>> Have you gone completely mad?
8:58>> Possibly. Granger must be catching.
9:01>> The ceiling rushes on, a diary, a
9:03basilisk, a sword pulled from a battered
9:06old hat. Ginny Weasley lies cold on wet
9:09stone and a 12-year-old boy plunges a
9:11fang through the diary's heart.
9:14>> Ron got stuck behind the rocks.
9:16Harry went the rest of the way alone
9:18for me.
9:19>> You'd have done the same, Ginny.
9:21>> I'd have fainted.
9:23I did faint, actually.
9:25>> Then Dumbledore's office and a tall man
9:27with a silver serpent cane snarling at a
9:29boy half his height.
9:31>> You'll meet the same sticky end as your
9:33parents one of these days, Harry Potter.
9:36>> The hall feels Harry's grin as Dobby
9:38holds up the sock. Laughter rolls across
9:40every table.
9:42>> Best thing you've ever done.
9:44A sock.
9:46>> Then 12-year-old Harry says it plainly.
9:48Lucius Malfoy slipped that diary into
9:50Ginny's cauldron.
9:52>> Now steady on. Lucius was a school
9:54governor. Lucius gives very generously
9:56to
9:57>> To you, Cornelius. Yes, we are all
10:00aware.
10:01>> Hem hem. That is a very grave thing to
10:03say about a former governor, Minerva.
10:05>> It is a very grave thing to do to a
10:07child, Dolores.
10:09>> Fudge closes his
10:10>> mouth and keeps it closed.
10:12Dracoia remembers that summer. Her
10:15father came home white with fury and
10:17threw a vase at the wall.
10:19>> He told us the elves stole the silver.
10:21He said Potter was a jumped up little
10:23brat who lied to the governors.
10:24>> Maybe it did.
10:26Your father wouldn't lie to you.
10:28>> Wouldn't he?
10:29>> Dracoia doesn't answer. She is
10:31remembering everything else her father
10:33ever explained away.
10:35Year three. Rain on the Quidditch pitch
10:37and then the rain freezes in mid air.
10:40The Dementors come and the Great Hall
10:41goes cold to the bone.
10:44Then a woman's voice, far away and
10:46frantic.
10:47>> Not Harry, please, not Harry.
10:50>> A scream. Green light. The ceiling goes
10:53white.
10:54Nobody moves. Over by the Hufflepuffs,
10:56even the fat friar has stopped smiling.
10:59>> That was his mother.
11:01He hears her every time they come near
11:02him.
11:03>> Luna, please don't.
11:05>> Sorry, Harry, but they ought to know why
11:07you fall.
11:08>> You told us you heard a woman screaming.
11:11You never said who.
11:12>> Because then you'd all look at me
11:13exactly like this.
11:15>> Nobody's looking at you different, mate.
11:16We're just looking.
11:17>> At the staff table, something cracks.
11:19Professor Snape's goblet has split
11:21straight down the middle in his grip.
11:23Red wine runs over his fingers and onto
11:25the cloth.
11:26He doesn't look down. He mops it with a
11:28napkin, face like carved stone.
11:32Dracoia sees it. Nobody else does. They
11:34are all watching Harry. Professor Snape
11:37has never spilled a drop of anything in
11:38his life. She files it away.
11:41The shrieking shack. Moonlight through
11:43broken boards. Sirius Black, gaunt and
11:46wild, and Professor Lupin beside him,
11:49both wands on Ron's rat.
11:51>> Together, Remus. Now.
11:53>> Blue white light. The rat writhes,
11:56swells, and becomes a small balding man
11:58with watery eyes and a missing finger.
12:01>> That's Scabbers.
12:02I fed that thing my crusts for three
12:04years.
12:04>> That's that's Pettigrew.
12:07>> The Minister for Magic is on his feet,
12:09white as the tablecloth.
12:11>> I I at that man's memorial and wept. I
12:13shook his poor mother's hand.
12:15>> Minister, memories can be tampered with.
12:17A clever boy, a little coaching from the
12:19headmaster.
12:20>> Nobody coached me.
12:22I didn't ask for any of this.
12:24>> The castle does not lie, Dolores. It has
12:26had a thousand years to learn how, and
12:29it has never once seen the need. With
12:31the greatest respect, Professor, a
12:33building cannot possibly
12:35>> Then do explain the doors.
12:37>> Umbridge looks at the doors, still
12:39locked tight, and says nothing.
12:41>> Black was innocent, 12 years in Azkaban,
12:44and I sent the Dementors to give him the
12:46kiss.
12:46>> Cornelius, really? Not in front of the
12:49children.
12:49>> Be quiet, Dolores. Just this once, be
12:52quiet.
12:53>> So the man the prophet hunted all year
12:55was innocent,
12:56and the boy the prophet calls a liar is
12:59telling the truth.
13:01That's some pattern so it is.
13:03>> Took you a whole summer, Seamus.
13:05>> The lake at night, a hundred Dementors
13:08pour across the water, and the hall
13:10feels Harry's heart slowing. Then on the
13:12far shore, a boy raises his wand.
13:16>> Expecto Patronum.
13:18>> A silver stag bursts out and charges.
13:20The Dementors scatter like smoke, and
13:23warmth floods back into every frozen
13:25chest.
13:27>> He was 13.
13:29I couldn't do that now if you paid me.
13:31>> 13, George.
13:33What were we doing at 13?
13:35>> Blowing up a toilet, proudly.
13:38>> Harry ducks his head,
13:39but this time he doesn't want the floor
13:41to swallow him.
13:43>> A stag?
13:44Of course it's a stag. You're smiling. I
13:47am not. You're smiling at Potter. Eat
13:50your pudding, Pansy.
13:52>> Then the ceiling shows a goblet full of
13:54blue fire, and Harry Potter goes white
13:57because he knows what comes at the end
13:58of this year.
14:00For one heartbeat, the ceiling jumps
14:02ahead, a flash of green light, a tall
14:04boy falling in wet grass, then it snaps
14:07back to Halloween as if the castle is
14:09warning them.
14:11>> Harry?
14:12Who was that?
14:14Who was that boy?
14:16>> Harry doesn't answer. He can't. And at
14:19the Ravenclaw table, Cho Chang starts to
14:21understand why.
14:23Halloween 1994. The goblet of fire
14:26flares red and coughs up a fourth name,
14:29and this time the whole school feels
14:31what Harry felt when he heard it.
14:33It hits them like missing a stair in the
14:35dark, a cold drop in the stomach. Every
14:38mouth in the hall goes dry at once.
14:41>> That's not right. I was there that
14:43night.
14:44He looked like he'd won the house cup.
14:47>> He looked like he was going to be sick,
14:48Seamus. We just didn't want to see it.
14:50>> I told everyone I didn't put my name in.
14:54Nobody listened.
14:55>> I listened.
14:56>> I didn't.
14:57Sorry, mate.
14:59I was a complete prat for a month.
15:02>> The ceiling fills with a corridor of
15:04glowing red badges that read Support
15:06Cedric Diggory. Press a badge and they
15:09flash green. Potter stinks.
15:12Every badge hits the hall like a small
15:14stone thrown at the back of Harry's
15:16head. Every corridor, every lesson,
15:19every meal.
15:21>> You stayed up all night charming those
15:23Draconia. You made me test every single
15:26one.
15:27>> Be quiet, Pansy.
15:28>> You said it was the cleverest thing
15:30you'd ever done.
15:31>> It was.
15:33That's what makes me sick.
15:35>> She makes herself watch.
15:37At 14, Harry eats alone at the end of a
15:39table, fast, so he can leave before
15:41anyone presses a badge.
15:44>> We wore them. Half of Hufflepuff wore
15:46them.
15:47Hannah and I wore ours for a fortnight.
15:49>> Cedric asked us to take them off. He
15:52never told us why.
15:54>> The ceiling answers her. The morning
15:56before the first task, Harry catches
15:58Cedric alone in a corridor.
16:00>> It's dragons. Cedric, one each.
16:04Fleur and Krum already know.
16:06>> Why are you telling me this?
16:08>> Weeks later, Cedric pays him back. He
16:10tells Harry to take the golden egg into
16:12the prefect's bathroom and to trust him.
16:15>> Harry warned him. While we were wearing
16:18those badges, Harry was warning him.
16:21>> And Cedric never said a word. He just
16:24made us stop.
16:25>> At the Hufflepuff table, somebody starts
16:27to cry, and nobody tells them to stop.
16:30Cho Chang presses both fists against her
16:32mouth.
16:35>> He liked you, Harry.
16:37He always said you were fair.
16:40>> He was fairer than me
16:42every single time.
16:44>> Then the maze. The hedge is closed
16:46behind two champions, and Harry grips
16:48the edge of the table until his knuckles
16:49go white.
16:51>> Not this one. Professor, please. Not in
16:54front of everyone.
16:55>> I think, Harry, this is the one they
16:57most need to see.
16:58>> Then watch him, all of you.
17:01Don't you dare look away from Cedric.
17:03>> Two champions grab the Triwizard Cup
17:05together. A Hufflepuff victory shared.
17:08Then the hook behind the navel and the
17:10whole hall feels itself yanked off the
17:12ground.
17:13A graveyard, wet grass, a yew tree, a
17:17small man in a hood cradling something
17:19wrapped in robes.
17:21>> Harry?
17:22Where are we?
17:23>> Kill the spare.
17:25>> Green light. Cedric falls with his eyes
17:27open, and the castle spares them
17:29nothing. They feel what Harry felt, the
17:31ground gone, a scream that never reaches
17:34the mouth, the cold, total knowledge
17:36that someone is simply gone.
17:39>> No.
17:40No, no, no.
17:42>> Cedric! Somebody help him. Somebody.
17:45>> Nobody can. The whole Hufflepuff table
17:47is on its feet, and some of them are
17:49reaching for the ceiling.
17:51>> The spare. He called him the spare.
17:54>> He was 17. He was just standing there.
17:57>> His dad.
17:59Somebody has to tell his dad.
18:01Oh, his poor dad.
18:04>> Then the cauldron. Bone of the father,
18:06flesh of the servant, Harry's blood cut
18:09from his arm by a weeping one-handed rat
18:11of a man.
18:12A thin white figure rises from the
18:14steam, and Harry's scar blazes like a
18:16brand. Every forehead in the great hall
18:19burns with it.
18:20Every student in the hall clutches their
18:22head at once, even Dolores Umbridge.
18:26>> That's him. That's actually him.
18:29My man said it was all lies.
18:32She made me promise to stay away from
18:33you, Harry.
18:35>> It's a dream, just a nasty little dream.
18:38Boys have such dreadful imaginations.
18:40>> Dolores, you're clutching your own head.
18:42Can't you feel that? Merlin, can't you
18:44feel it?
18:46>> Cracks split the night. Masked figures
18:48appear among the graves and kneel and
18:50crawl forward to kiss the hem of
18:52Voldemort's robe.
18:54He walks the circle slowly, greeting
18:55them like old dinner guests. He stops
18:58before a tall mask with pale hair
19:00spilling from the hood.
19:02>> Lucius, my slippery friend.
19:04>> My lord.
19:05I was constantly on the alert.
19:08>> 900 heads turn as one towards the
19:10Slytherin table.
19:12Draco Malfoy knows that voice. It read
19:15her stories when she was five. It taught
19:17her the word she used on Hermione.
19:20>> He dined with me in July. He sat at my
19:22own table and told me the boy was
19:24unwell.
19:25>> Pansy Parkinson slides along the bench
19:27away from her, then Millicent, then the
19:30whole row. Now there is an empty space
19:32on both sides of Draco Malfoy.
19:35Harry watches it happen from across the
19:37hall. He knows exactly what an empty
19:39bench feels like. He has spent all night
19:42on one.
19:43Then she stands up.
19:45>> Sit down this instant, Miss Malfoy.
19:47Nobody has given you permission to
19:49>> Draco, don't. Think about your father.
19:53>> She steps over the bench and walks past
19:56the Ravenclaws, past Cho sobbing into
19:59Luna's shoulder, past the Hufflepuffs
20:01who stare at her as if she is the one in
20:03the mask.
20:04The hall is so quiet her shoes echo off
20:06the walls. It is the longest walk of her
20:09life and it is 40 yards.
20:12>> She's coming here.
20:13Why is she coming here?
20:15>> Ron, let her come.
20:17>> She stops at the Gryffindor table.
20:19Beside Harry Potter is the seat nobody
20:21would take tonight. She looks at it for
20:23a moment, then she sits down in it.
20:26>> Lying again, Potter? I said that tonight
20:29in front of everyone.
20:31So everyone is going to hear this too.
20:33>> Malfoy, you don't have to do this here.
20:36>> Yes, I do.
20:37I called you a liar in this room. I
20:39spent all summer calling you one.
20:42I told the whole common room you'd
20:43invented a murder because you couldn't
20:45bear not being famous for a week.
20:48>> She turns on the bench to face the hall.
20:50Her voice shakes and she lets it.
20:53>> That was my father in that graveyard,
20:55kneeling in the wet grass.
20:57I was up in the stands complaining about
20:59the cold.
21:00Cedric was dead
21:02and you were bleeding and I was bored.
21:04All summer I never once asked father
21:06where he'd been that night.
21:08>> You were up in the stands.
21:09You couldn't have known.
21:11>> I didn't want to know.
21:12That's different, Potter, so here it is
21:15where 900 people can hear it. Harry
21:18Potter told the truth.
21:20My father knelt to Lord Voldemort
21:22and I'm sorry.
21:24>> Nobody at the Slytherin table says a
21:26word.
21:27Pansy stares at her plate.
21:29>> Miss Malfoy, you will return to your
21:31house table at once.
21:33>> Miss Malfoy is a prefect, Dolores. She
21:36may sit wherever she likes and I rather
21:38think she has found the right seat.
21:40>> Hermione slides a clean napkin across
21:42the table.
21:44Draco stares at it, then slowly picks it
21:46up.
21:47>> Granger, you're the last person in this
21:49castle who should be kind to me.
21:51>> I know.
21:52That's precisely why I'm doing it.
21:54>> For the record, I'm still deciding about
21:56you, Malfoy.
21:57>> That's fair, Weasley. Take your time.
22:00>> Nobody would sit there all night.
22:02I kept telling myself I didn't care.
22:05>> Did it work?
22:06>> Not even slightly.
22:08>> Then I'm staying
22:09tonight and every night after.
22:12I've spent four years staring at you
22:14from the wrong table.
22:16Let them stare at me for a change.
22:18>> A Malfoy just crossed the Great Hall in
22:20front of 900 witnesses. Crossing to that
22:23subscribe button costs you a great deal
22:25less, so do it now. The ceiling isn't
22:27finished, and the Minister for Magic is
22:29about to watch himself.
22:31On the ceiling, the graveyard spins
22:33away, and Harry Potter lands on the lawn
22:35of Hogwarts with Cedric Diggory in his
22:37arms.
22:39>> That's my son. That's my boy.
22:42>> The cry fills the Great Hall from the
22:43ceiling down.
22:45Every student feels Harry's fingers
22:46locked in Cedric's robes, too numb to
22:48open.
22:50At the Hufflepuff table, Ernie Macmillan
22:52buries his face in his arms. Hannah
22:54Abbott is sobbing. Across the hall, Cho
22:57Chang clings to Luna.
22:59>> He brought him back. Potter carried him
23:01all the way home.
23:03>> He could have left him there.
23:05With that thing rising out of the
23:06cauldron, he still wouldn't leave
23:08Cedric.
23:09>> Cedric asked me to take his body back to
23:11his parents.
23:13It was the only thing left I could do
23:14for him.
23:15>> Traconia says nothing. She shifts an
23:18inch along the bench until her shoulder
23:20rests against his.
23:22>> Breathe, Potter.
23:24They're all feeling it now. You don't
23:26have to carry it by yourself anymore.
23:28>> The ceiling swirls into a cramped
23:30office. On the floor, Professor Moody's
23:32scarred face melts away. A pale,
23:35freckled young man with straw-colored
23:36hair takes its place.
23:38>> That's Barty Crouch, the son.
23:41He was supposed to have died in Azkaban.
23:43>> I put the boy's name in the goblet.
23:46My master has risen, and I shall be
23:48honored above all his servants.
23:50>> He confessed under Veritaserum,
23:52Cornelius, and you let a dementor take
23:54his soul before he could say it again.
23:57>> Fudge did, and now the ceiling shows the
23:59whole school what he did next.
24:02The hospital wing, past midnight. The
24:04hall feels it all at once, the cuts
24:06stinging on Harry's arm, exhaustion down
24:09to the bone, and one small, desperate
24:11hope that the grown-ups will finally
24:13believe him.
24:15>> The boy's been having funny turns all
24:16year, Dumbledore, a parcelmouth, seeing
24:19things. You'd take his word over.
24:21>> The memory holds on the Minister's face.
24:24In the Great Hall, that same face drains
24:26to gray because Cornelius Fudge is
24:29feeling the hope inside that bed die,
24:31and he is the one killing it.
24:33>> Dumbledore believed me.
24:35Mrs. Weasley believed me.
24:37I only needed you to, Minister.
24:40>> He was still bleeding. You can see it
24:42through the bandage.
24:43>> He just watched Cedric die, and you
24:45called him unbalanced.
24:47>> I never called him a liar. I never once
24:49used that word.
24:50>> You didn't need to, Minister. The
24:52Prophet used it for you every morning
24:54all summer.
24:55>> I don't write the Daily Prophet, young
24:57lady.
24:58>> No. You just tell them what to print. So
25:00who told you he was unbalanced? Who was
25:03in your office that summer whispering in
25:05your ear?
25:06Was it my father?
25:08>> Fudge opens his mouth. Nothing comes
25:10out. The whole school watches the
25:12Minister for Magic lose an argument to a
25:1415-year-old girl.
25:16>> Hem hem. Children, this is a private
25:18memory warped by grief. A virtual eyes,
25:21please.
25:22>> We can't, Professor. It's on the
25:24ceiling.
25:25>> That's rather the trouble with ceilings.
25:27>> August, a hot, sticky night in Little
25:30Whinging. Then the air freezes over a
25:32suburban alley, and the stars go out.
25:35Every student in the hall feels the
25:36Dementors' cold settle on their chest.
25:39Dudley Dursley, the cousin who spent 10
25:41years hitting Harry, is on the ground
25:43with a Dementor at his face. Harry saves
25:45him anyway, and the silver stag thunders
25:47down the alley.
25:49Then a dungeon courtroom, the full
25:51Wizengamot in plum robes, a chair with
25:54chains on the arms, and a 15-year-old
25:56boy sitting in it. Up on the bench
25:58presiding sits Cornelius Fudge. At his
26:00elbow in pink sits Dolores Umbridge.
26:04>> Dementors in Little Whinging? How very
26:07convenient, Mr. Potter.
26:08>> I spent 10 days thinking I'd never see
26:10this hall again.
26:12>> You put a child in the chained chair,
26:13Cornelius, for a Patronus,
26:17for saving a Muggle boy's life.
26:19>> Dementors answer to the Ministry. They
26:21don't wander into Surrey by accident.
26:23Somebody sent them.
26:24>> Nobody sent anything. Those creatures
26:26were only ever told to frighten.
26:29>> She stops. Too late. Fudge turns around
26:32very slowly.
26:34>> Told Dolores. Told by whom?
26:36>> A figure of speech, Minister. Hem, hem.
26:38I think we have all seen quite enough of
26:40this nonsense.
26:42>> Her wand comes out of her cardigan,
26:44aimed straight at Harry.
26:46>> And I shall end it myself.
26:48>> Draco Nia is on her feet in front of him
26:50before anyone else moves, but the castle
26:52is faster.
26:54The great doors burst open. A howling
26:56wind tears down the hall, lifts Delores
26:59Umbridge clean off her kitten heels, and
27:01bowls her backwards between the tables.
27:03Her shriek trails all the way out into
27:05the entrance hall. The doors slam behind
27:08her. The bolts shoot home.
27:10>> Did the castle just sack her? I think it
27:13did, Fred.
27:14>> Bloody brilliant. Do you reckon the
27:15castle takes requests then?
27:18>> It appears Hogwarts has views on staff
27:20conduct. I would award points to the
27:22building if I could.
27:24>> Laughter rolls through the hall. Harry
27:27doesn't join in. Draco Nia is still on
27:29her feet in front of him, her wand half
27:31drawn.
27:32>> You stood in front of me.
27:34She was aiming straight at me, and you
27:36just stepped in.
27:38>> It was a reflex, Potter.
27:40Leave it.
27:41>> It's quite a big reflex, Malfoy.
27:43>> Fine, it wasn't a reflex. I'd do it
27:45again.
27:47Happy?
27:48>> She sits back down beside him, pink to
27:50the ears. He doesn't say whether he's
27:52happy. He doesn't need to.
27:54Then the ceiling shifts again, and the
27:56laughter dies.
27:58A dark London square. Two houses slide
28:00apart, and a third squeezes out between
28:03them. A gloomy hallway.
28:05A screaming portrait behind velvet
28:06curtains.
28:08Harry's blood runs cold. Sirius is in
28:10that house. So is the order. And the
28:13sons and daughters of Death Eaters are
28:14sitting in this hall, watching.
28:16>> Potter, if they see where that house is
28:19>> Boy, I know.
28:20I can't stop it. I don't know how.
28:24>> At the staff table, Albus Dumbledore has
28:26not moved all night. Now he rises and
28:29looks up at the ceiling as if at an old
28:30friend.
28:32>> That will do, I think.
28:34Thank you. That house is not ours to
28:36show.
28:37>> For a moment, nothing. Then, as if it
28:40agrees, the silver drains from the
28:42ceiling like water from a basin.
28:45stars come back, every candle flickers a
28:47light, and the great doors unlock.
28:50Cornelius Fudge stands alone in the
28:52aisle, staring up at the place where the
28:54graveyard was.
28:56>> He's back.
28:57>> It is barely a whisper. Then he says it
28:59again, louder, so every table hears.
29:03>> He who must not be named is back. No,
29:06Voldemort. Lord Voldemort has returned.
29:09>> Gasps from every bench. The Minister for
29:12Magic has just said the name.
29:14>> And I spent the summer calling the one
29:16boy who fought him a liar. Mr. Potter, I
29:19>> Don't say sorry to me, Minister. Say it
29:20to Mr. Diggory. Then do something.
29:23>> Yes, yes, quite right. Minerva, owl
29:26Amelia Bones, immediately. Sirius Black
29:29is to be pardoned tonight. With the
29:30Ministry's apology, Lucius Malfoy is to
29:33be arrested before dawn.
29:35>> Every head turns towards Dracoia again.
29:38She keeps her chin up and does not
29:39flinch.
29:41>> Good.
29:41>> And from this moment, the Ministry of
29:43Magic is at war.
29:44>> Sirius is free.
29:46He's actually free.
29:47>> And you're not the liar anymore.
29:50>> But Dracoia is already looking past him.
29:53At the Slytherin table, Vincent Crabbe
29:55folds a scrap of parchment and slips out
29:57of the side door towards the owlery.
30:00>> Where's he off to?
30:01>> To write to his father, and his father
30:03dines with mine. Before midnight,
30:05Potter, mine will know exactly what I
30:07said in here.
30:09>> Cornelius Fudge will resign before the
30:11month is out, and Amelia Bones will take
30:13his chair. But tonight, at last, he gets
30:16one thing right.
30:17After a whole summer of headlines,
30:19nobody in the Great Hall thinks Harry
30:21Potter is lying.
30:23Seamus Finnigan is the first to move.
30:25He sat at the far end of the Gryffindor
30:27table tonight, as far from Harry as he
30:29could get. Now he walks back up it.
30:33>> My mum nearly didn't let me come back.
30:36Said you were dangerous.
30:38And I told her she was probably right.
30:40>> Seamus, leave it.
30:43>> I can't, Harry. I felt it, the
30:45graveyard.
30:46I felt him die. And you had that all
30:49summer with my mum calling you a liar
30:52over the cornflakes.
30:54>> He sits down opposite Harry and says
30:55nothing else, which is the bravest thing
30:58anyone has ever seen Seamus do.
31:00Across the hall, Ernie Macmillan stands,
31:03then Hannah Abbott, then the whole
31:05Hufflepuff table. Eyes still red from
31:07Cedric.
31:09>> Cedric believed you. He made us take the
31:12badges off.
31:13We should have listened to him, even if
31:15we wouldn't listen to you.
31:18>> They come across with their plates and
31:19goblets. The Ravenclaws follow. Luna
31:22drifts over last, as though it was her
31:24idea all along.
31:26>> I always sit with people who are telling
31:28the truth.
31:29It's usually very quiet. This is much
31:31louder.
31:33>> By the time the last Ravenclaw sits
31:35down, there is no empty seat anywhere
31:37near Harry Potter. There is barely room
31:39to lift a fork.
31:40>> Mate, somebody's elbow is in my pudding.
31:43>> It's a Hufflepuff, Ron. Let them have
31:44it.
31:45>> The crush squeezes Draconia right up
31:47against Harry's side. Her hair brushes
31:50his cheek. Neither of them shifts away.
31:53>> They followed you, you know.
31:54>> They followed Seamus,
31:56Potter,
31:57and the Hufflepuffs.
31:59>> You went first before anyone knew how it
32:01ended.
32:02You crossed the whole hall on your own.
32:05>> Draconia opens her mouth for something
32:07cutting and finds she hasn't got one.
32:09Then her eyes flick to the side door,
32:11the one Crabbe went through, and stay
32:13there.
32:14Then the noise drops because Albus
32:16Dumbledore is walking down from the
32:18staff table.
32:19All summer he would not look at Harry.
32:21Even at the hearing up on the ceiling,
32:24he never once met the boy's eyes. The
32:26whole school felt how badly that hurt.
32:29>> Harry, may I sit?
32:30>> You're asking now?
32:32>> I am. I owe you that and a great deal
32:35more.
32:36>> You never wrote, not one letter. I
32:39thought done something wrong.
32:40>> You had done nothing at all.
32:43I kept away to protect you, and I left
32:45you alone instead. The castle showed me
32:48that as well.
32:49>> Did you make it do this?
32:51>> No, Harry, you did.
32:53>> Harry stares at him. he remembers the
32:55train, the prophet on his knees, the
32:58word liar printed tall.
33:00>> I wish they could just see it once on
33:04the train.
33:05Nobody even heard me.
33:07>> Hogwarts heard you.
33:09He will always help those who ask for
33:11it.
33:11You simply asked louder than you knew.
33:15>> Doubt him once and see him whole.
33:18The old hat says it again from its
33:19stool, and this time every person in the
33:21hall understands it.
33:23>> You wished for this.
33:25On the train you wished we'd see it.
33:27>> I wished somebody would. I didn't think
33:30anyone would actually look.
33:32>> I looked, Potter.
33:33It took me four years in the whole
33:35castle, but I looked.
33:37>> Every face is turned towards Harry.
33:40Draco now notices the one that isn't.
33:42Severus Snape sits alone at the staff
33:44table, turning a broken goblet slowly in
33:46his fingers.
33:48>> Of course, the boy might have come to
33:49the ministry himself, properly, through
33:52the proper channels.
33:53>> He did, minister.
33:55In the hospital wing. We all watched you
33:57decline.
33:58>> Fudge turns quite puce. Snape rises to
34:01leave, and on his way past the
34:03Gryffindor bench he stops at Draco's
34:05shoulder. He knows exactly what she saw.
34:08>> Some memories, Miss Malfoy, are not ours
34:11to repeat.
34:12>> Then I won't repeat it, sir. Not yet.
34:15>> Snape looks away first. Draco Malfoy now
34:18knows something about her head of house
34:19that nobody else in the castle does. She
34:22keeps it.
34:23Then she leans across Harry towards the
34:25last person she ever expected to owe
34:27anything.
34:28>> Weasley, on the train when I was 11.
34:32What I said about your family.
34:33>> You said we had more children than we
34:35could afford.
34:36>> I said it because my father said it at
34:38dinner.
34:39I I even know what it meant. I'm sorry.
34:41>> Blimey, right. Well, we do have loads of
34:43children to be fair.
34:45>> That isn't the point.
34:46>> I know.
34:48Apology accepted.
34:50Pass the potatoes, Malfoy.
34:52>> Draconia passes them. Then she turns to
34:55the girl on Harry's other side.
34:57>> Granger, that word.
35:00I was 12 and I knew exactly what it
35:02meant and I wanted it to hurt you.
35:05I'm sorry.
35:07Nobody in my house says it in front of
35:08me again.
35:09>> I know you mean it.
35:11>> How? Because you finished it.
35:13>> Just before midnight, Lucius Malfoy
35:16reaches the castle gates.
35:18Crabbe's father had his son's owl within
35:20the hour and warned the manor. Lucius
35:22was gone before the Aurors arrived. His
35:25daughter is a witness now and witnesses
35:27can be taken home.
35:29Filch, who missed the whole feast, opens
35:31the oak doors for a parent. A house elf
35:34brings the note to Draconia at the
35:35Gryffindor table and Harry walks out to
35:38the entrance hall beside her.
35:40>> Draconia, your trunk will follow.
35:43We are leaving.
35:45>> The Aurors are at the manor.
35:46>> A misunderstanding, darling. Cornelius
35:49will regret it by Monday.
35:51>> Cornelius watched you kneel.
35:54So did everyone.
35:55>> Mr. Potter,
35:57what an evening you've had,
35:59parading your little sorrows round the
36:01whole school.
36:02>> You were in that graveyard. Cedric was
36:05lying on the grass and you were making
36:07excuses to Voldemort.
36:09>> You will not say that name in front of
36:11my daughter.
36:12>> I heard it all night, father.
36:14I heard you call him my lord.
36:16>> You sat beside him in front of the
36:18children of every family we know.
36:21Do you understand what you have cost us?
36:24>> I understand what you cost him.
36:27>> His grip closes on her arm. The serpent
36:29cane slides apart and his wand points
36:31straight at Harry chest.
36:34>> Step aside, boy. She is 15 and she is
36:38mine.
36:39>> She's a witness.
36:40Let go of her.
36:41>> Or what?
36:42You'll show them another memory?
36:45>> He doesn't wait for an answer. A curse
36:47cracks across the entrance hall. Harry
36:49throws himself sideways and it blasts a
36:51crater in the marble where he stood.
36:54>> Father, stop.
36:56>> Lucius drags her towards the open doors,
36:59his wand swinging round again.
37:01Draconis drives her heel down hard on
37:03his foot.
37:04>> Expelliarmus.
37:06>> The wand leaps from Lucius's fingers and
37:08Harry catches it. The oak doors bang
37:11open again. Kingsley Shacklebolt strides
37:13in with four Aurors who have tracked
37:15Lucius all the way from Wiltshire.
37:18>> Lucius Malfoy,
37:20by order of the Minister for Magic.
37:22>> Draconis,
37:23tell them you are coming home with me.
37:25Tell them now.
37:27>> Every eye in the entrance hall turns to
37:29her, her father, the Aurors, Harry still
37:32holding the wand.
37:34>> He was in that graveyard.
37:36I'll say so to the Wizengamot in front
37:38of anyone they like.
37:40>> You are a Malfoy.
37:42>> I am. That's why somebody in this family
37:44has to tell the truth.
37:46>> The Aurors take him through the doors.
37:48He does not look back. She does not ask
37:50him to.
37:52She sits down on the bottom stair. Harry
37:54sits beside her. It is becoming a habit.
37:57>> You all right?
37:58>> No. Ask me in a year.
38:00>> I will.
38:01>> I know.
38:02That's the most annoying thing about
38:04you, Potter.
38:05>> Then she leans her head on his shoulder
38:07anyway. Harry doesn't move until the
38:09torches burn low.
38:11Far away, in a borrowed house, Wormtail
38:14delivers the news on his knees.
38:16>> The castle showed them everything,
38:18master. And the owls, hundreds of owls
38:21flying tonight.
38:22>> To whom?
38:23>> To everyone, my lord. By breakfast,
38:26every family in Britain will know.
38:29>> Lord Voldemort's whole plan rested on
38:31one simple fact. Nobody believed the
38:33boy. Now 900 witnesses are writing home.
38:37So the war runs differently with a
38:38ministry that believes from the first
38:40week.
38:41Dolores Umbridge never gets back inside
38:43the castle. She stands trial for the
38:45Dementors and little whinging in the
38:47very same chained chair.
38:50Sirius Black walks down Diagon Alley in
38:52broad daylight and never goes near the
38:54Department of Mysteries.
38:56>> Free man, Harry. Fancy a lift on the
38:58bike?
38:59>> Dumbledore's Army is a proper school
39:01club taught by Remus Lupin on Thursday
39:03evenings. Fred Weasley grows old and so
39:06does Hedwig.
39:07And years later, when Harry finally
39:09needs to know why a goblet broke at the
39:11feast, Draco Nia is the one who tells
39:13him.
39:14Harry still has to finish it himself. He
39:17does years sooner with the whole country
39:19behind him instead of whispering.
39:21And every 1st of September after that,
39:24the feast begins the same way. Draco
39:26Malfoy walks the length of the Great
39:28Hall and sits in the seat beside Harry
39:30Potter.
39:31In their seventh year, a nervous little
39:33first year stops her on the way across.
39:36Why do you sit over there? You're a
39:38Slytherin.
39:39>> Because once that was the only empty
39:41seat in the hall.
39:43I'd like it to stay taken.
39:45That as well.
39:46>> Also, she's going out with me.
39:48It'd be very awkward if she sat anywhere
39:50else.
39:52>> All summer, Harry begged a country to
39:54believe him. In the end, nobody had to
39:56believe anything. They only had to look
39:59and feel it with him.
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