Act Five

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TANQUAM OVIS

ACT FIVE

Act V Scene I

Severus Snape's house. In the book filled sitting room.

Enter Severus Snape, solus.

Severus:

Fie on my ambition! Fie on myself!

It has been four days since I wast summon'd

To the Dark Lord's side for stratagem plans.

I like not this silence that chills my bones

The hour dost crawl too slowly methinks. 5

If Minerva wish to spirit me off

She might come sooner and not conspire

With sands of further time. I must not

As yet meet my doom, I have much to do.

How will the Order and my soul be holp 10

If the wax on my candle burns so low?

Those of my mould within the Dark Lord's court

Inform'd me that He doth weep, shake and curse

Whene'er Wormtail dissembling he espy.

The Dark Lord, saith my faithful ear, maketh 15

Low mournful sounds at his oft bleeding wounds,

Clutches his heart and rails at Bellatrix,

To kill he who foreswore his promises

To stay not on the fringe without the within.

That he maketh plans to march on Hogwarts 20

Is well known among the Death Eater ranks

But to Lucius wast my position bestowed.

It bloweth a biting wind on my fate

Accurs'd Lucius and his sister by law

Doth play me for a fool with young Draco. 25

That fellow has undone me endlessly;

Never wast traitor as distress'd as I;

The more I think on the first horcrux kill'd.

And whom should comfort me with gentle words

From a mortal divinity ennobled 30

Both in sacred pure blood and beauteous mind,

So clear in understanding (that's my plague now),

Before whose judgement will my fault appear

Like malefactors' crimes before tribunals –

There is no hiding on't, the more I dive 35

Into my own distress; how a wise man

Stands open to a great calumny!

There is truly no further venturing

Into his wise counsel now he is dead,

Whate'er course so ever I light upon, 40

Without any shame, which may grow up to danger;

With Dark Lord must but in justice strangle me

As I lie by him, as a cheater use me.

I would liefer be killed by the Dark Lord

Than those two bunch-back'd toads who flank him! 45

I ought should'st have known my duplicity

Would be unveil'd in the ambitious court

Of pawns the Dark Lord surroundeth himself,

'Tis a precious craft to play with a false die

Before a cunning gamester. 50

[A sound within. Enter Voldemort, Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange]

[aside]

But soft, what noise is this? It is not yet

The hour set upon for the Order's coming.

[aloud]

My Lord, 'tis a pleasure to welcome you

To my humble abode, your cloak I kiss

And your benediction I humbly crave. 55

How now friend Lucius and gentle Bella,

To what pleasure do I owe you for this

Gracious, most wondrous and honour'd visit?

Voldemort:

Would you, Snape be an honest man with me,

Wherefore hath you turmoiled in my court? 60

Severus:

Doth your noble Lordship seize me for a stray?

Voldemort:

Oppose your steadfast gazing eyes to mine,

See if thou canst outface me with your looks.

Set limb to limb, and thou art far the lesser;

Thy hand is but a finger to my fist; 65

Thy leg a stick compared with this wield'd wand;

My foot shall fight with al the strength thou hast;

And if mine arm be heaved in the air

Thy grave is digg'd already in the earth.

As for more words, whose greatness answers words, 70

Let this my wand report what speech forbears.

Bellatrix:

My Lord, exercise your caution, he is

A wily fox on the chimaera's back!

Luicus:

Perchance he think'st he, the Phoenix, would save.

Severus:

Mock me not, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, 75

Nettled and stung with pismires when I hear

Of this vile politician, Dumbledore!

Bellatrix:

Thou art an ingrate and villain unnatural.

Severus:

Thou art a woman unnatural.

Lucius:

It hast come to our Lord's attention that 80

You discover'd the murder of Dumbledore.

Voldemort:

Silence you quarrelsome cats, let me hear

What Severus hast to say for himself.

Bellatrix:

My Lord, I protest.

Voldemort (aside):

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. 85

Bellatrix:

Should'st you permit the traitorous spy to speak,

He would change your mind and turn you against

Those among thine ranks loyal to you.

Voldemort:

Bellatrix, my sweet, hast thou ever had

Suffered under the after effects 90

Of thy favour'd multiple cruciatus?

Severus (aside):

He's much distracted. Off my paint'd honour!

While the vain hopes our faculties we tire,

I would not change my peace of conscience

For all the wealth of Potter! There is life 95

Beating in my soul against darkness, it

Shalt lead me out of his sensible hell.

Voldemort:

I have proof, Severus Snape, that you hast

Consorted with Dumbledore to conspire

To bring my momentous enterprises 100

To an unwarranted, unmerited

And scandalous end! So Wormtail hath spoke.

Severus:

What a spendthrift is he of his tongue!

My liege, you know'st me better than I know

The hollow shell of my wasted body. 105

You know'st I will never adventure

My much fabled discretion so weakly.

Lucius:

You be dangerous while unsuspected.

Bellatrix:

And more so now that you be!

Lucius:

Thou art deep, hollow, treacherous and full of guile. 110

Severus:

Good, my noble Lord, can not you prevent

These ravens from singing their own praises?

Voldemort:

Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shape

And with virtuous visage to hide deep vice!

Severus:

Ne'er has my loyalty to thy person 115

Wavered weakly as Malfoy's!

Voldemort:

Dost thou judge with ingratitude? It wert time

That thou did'st kill Dumbledore, but wherefore?

Severus:

For it wert your will and bidding, my Lord.

Voldemort:

Doth fear of me not prescribe obedience? 120

Snape, thou hast stifl'd in thy own report,

And smell of calumny. Get thee away

To a place where I may never see thee.

Lucius:

My Lord, your mercy is misplaced.

Bellatrix:

With my Lord's leave, I shall kill the traitor! 125

Severus:

Again I see thy need to shed blood,

And yet I remain unmoved.

Lucius and thyself be worthy creatures;

Your pair of hearts been hollow graves,

Rotten and rotting others: and your vengeance 130

Like two chain'd bullets still goes arm-in-arm;

I should include thy sister; for treason, like the plague,

Doth take much in a blood. I stand like one
That long hath tane a sweet and golden dream.

I am angry with myself, now that I wake. 135

Voldemort:

I am well acquainted with thy manner

Of wrenching my true cause the false way. Yet,

Thy bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

Mark how I punish them. Crucio! Crucio!

[Lucius and Bellatrix fall in pain from Cruciatus curse]

What, dost thou condescend to kiss my hand? 140

Thy kisses be the spawn of Judas, Snape.

Of thy guilt, I've irrefutable proof;

O, I know'st all thou hast not said

From th'extremest upward of thy head

To the descent and dust below thy foot, 145

A most toad-spotted traitor!

Severus:

Wherefore should I be thus neglected? Sir,

I served your tyranny, and rather strove

To satisfy yourself than all the world;

And though I loath'd the evil, yet I lov'd 150

You that did counsel it: and rather sought

To appear a true servant than an honest man.

Voldemort:

Thy words be damning to thy survival;

Art thou spying for the Fool's Order now?

Severus:

Whither I respond yea or nay, my Lord, 155

Hast no bearing on your intent to kill.

Voldemort:

So it be true that

No man's pie is freed from thy ambitious finger!

Severus (aside):

Nay, 'tis thy ambitious finger.

Voldemort:

Since this confusion I did hear, I'll cut 160

Down these branches and these loathsome boughs

Of thy unfortunate and fatal weed to my cause;

I will not leave a root, a stalk, a tree

A bough, a branch, a blossom, nor a leaf.

No, not a herb within thy false bearing body! 165

Thou shalt suffer with this lingering death!

[The spell hits Severus. He falls]

Lucius, cast the dark mark and we be done.

Struggle against death all thou canst, Severus,

What, hath thee no sententious reply?

Deserve thou death, yea, be thou damned to die 170

A shameful death to end thy shameful life!

[A noise within]

Bellatrix:

My Lord, people from our world doth approach

We must now hie away!

Voldemort:

My heart burns! Nagini, I fear is lost.

[to Severus]

Thy friends can try but they'll'd never kill me! 175

Lucius, loan me thy arm that now I bleed.

There be'st other horcruxes thou shalt not

Destroy or even hope to find!

Lucius:

My Lord, we must away. The noise grows near.

[A noise within]

Severus:

O, wherefore death be slow to claim me? 180

[Enter Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, Minerva McGonagall, Ronald Weasley and Remus Lupin]

Voldemort:

Potter, thou hast kill'd my beloved snake!

Harry:

I see thou weep'st thy loss from thy heart.

Voldemort:

I shall kill thee ere the day is done. Avada Kedavra!

[Severus throws self with remaining strength afore Harry]

Though I bleed, thy death, Snape, is my delight

Come Lucius, Bellatrix, let us away. 185

Minerva:

Stay Potter and Weasley, pursue them not

'Tis not the time nor place for heroics

The Dark One's blood must be spill'd on Hogwarts

Sanctified ancient stones!

Lupin:

We must like quicksilver move Severus 190

To a wizarding chirurgeon. Come now,

Hermione, tear thyself from his form

If we be to save him from certain death.

Severus:

Smother thy pity wretch'd werewolf.

Ron:

Fuss not Hermione, 'tis only Snape. 195

Harry:

Methinks Hermione did bespeak the truth,

Snape be no traitor to Dumbledore's cause.

Ron:

Thou jest! Come away now and leave Snape be!

Hermione:

Thou hast betray'st my heart and mind, he hath not!

Severus:

If thou speak'st the truth, I die in peace. 200

O, Goddess Fortune, thou art my angel;

Some men have wish'd to die at the hearing

Of sad tidings: I am glad that I shall do't in thy love;

I would not now wish my wounds balm'd nor heal'd.

For I have no use to put my life to. 205

In all these our quest of greatness,

Like wanton boys, who's pastime is their care,

We follow after bubbles, blowed in th'air.

Pleasure to life, what is it? Only the good hours

Meant for the mere preparation of rest, 210

To endure vexations, I do not ask,

The process of my death. Remember me

Beloved Goddess Fortune for thou hast

At last smiled on my worthless mortal soul.

Commend me to Dumbledore should we win. 215

Tell him my word on Potter I have kept [Dies]

Hermione (aside):

O stay awhile and I will die with thee! [raises wand at self, and is stopt by Remus Lupin]

Lupin:

Thus cracks a noble heart.

Ron:

A being that only once wast Snape.

Harry:

Yet much good he hath done. 220

Minerva:

Silence young cubs, I will not thy words

Stain the memory of loyal Severus.

Hermione:

Ron, thou art a common recreation

To speak so ill of he with thy vulgar tongue;

Harry, thou most poor credulous monster, 225

Thy counterfeit thoughts render thee hapless:

Behold the result of thy prejudice!

See here this show, look at this spectacle.

Here lay my hope and here my hope hath end;

Here lay my heart and here my heart wast slain; 230

Here lay my treasure, here my treasure lost;

Here lat my bliss and here my bliss bereft;

But hope, heart, treasure, joy and bliss,

All fled, fail'd, died, yea, all decayed with this.

The merciless Death Eaters hath butcher'd 235

The noble soul of this man whom I love;

The merciless Voldemort indiscriminate

Hath butchered my love's mind and body.

He shrieks, I hear'st on Nagini's demise

And Severus Snape, methinks, I still hear 240

In his dismal outcry echo in the air.

Look on this handkercher I dip in his

Weeping eternal river of bleeding wounds;

It as propitious, see I have reserved,

And never shall it leave my bloody heart.

Lupin:

Cleave not to the body so, thou art distrait. 245

Hermione:

Distraught? Not I, my mind is pure

And with his bloody kerchief by my heart

Soliciting remembrance of my vow

With these, of these accursed murderers:

That might avenge me on Severus life! 250

Ron:

Would'st thou mourn the traitor?

Harry:

I advise thee, friend, to hold thy tongue.

Minerva:

Silence ye parlous boys, a friend hath died.

Remus, pray, spirit Severus' corse with us

So that a fitting remembrance we may 255

Present unto him in his beyond.

Harry, keep thy eye on thy rascal fiend,

While Hermione and I obsequiously

Plan the ascension of his soul's last rites. 260

[Exeunt all, with Remus carrying Severus' corse]

Act V Scene II

Forbidden Forest, Hogwarts grounds, near the Great Lake.

Voldemort's camp on the left side. On the other is the Order's camp. Enter Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Tonks, Moody, Hermione Granger, Minerva McGonagall, Remus Lupin and the rest of the Order of the Phoenix with drums and colours from stage right.

Harry:

Gracious friends of the Phoenix's Order,

Break we must Voldemort's yoke of tyranny

That hath whipp'd through the bowels of the land.

[aside]

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great

O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint, 5

I am so angry with my sightless eyes

That look'st not on churlish Snape as friend.

Alas, Dumbledore, would'st thou advise me

Perchance I should me be like Aberforth

And spend my fury on sheep or oxen. 10

No hate canst not be for wise Hermione

Saith to me that the done canst not be undone,

For the Order's sake, I must good prevail.

With Hermione's injunction in my head

To make fair weather persist yet awhile, 15

Till Voldemort be weak and I more strong.

[aloud]

Remus, Tonks, Moody, Ron, you all have

The maps that Hermione and Snape drew

So that with thy troops, thou canst beleaguer

The Death Eaters' camp'd tents from corner four, 20

To meet with them in the intestine shock

And furious close of civil butchery!

Ron:

I am resolv'd for death or dignity

[aside]

Now that my sprig of Lavender has left

And Hermione will not see my reason 25

I have lost all and wish for the tempest

Which will swell me in the stormy battle.

Moody:

Now, by old Longbottom's badge and crest

The rampant snake shall chain to the ragg'd staff,

This day forth I'll wear aloft my burgonet 30

To affright the enemy of the view thereof.

Tonks:

Thy words of comfort encourage us fair

And so to arms, victorious Harry,

To quell the Death Eaters and the Dark One!

Harry:

Soldiers, I thank you all; disperse yourselves! 35

Meet me tomorrow neat the cold Great Lake,

And you shall have peace and e'erything you wish.

In Dumbledore's name let us cheerful bear

To reap the harvest of perpetual peace

By this one bloody war! 40

[Exeunt stage right, all but Harry, Hermione and Minerva]

Hermione:

With they speech thou stirreth the multitude,

Would that they heart match the tone of thy voice.

Look not so affrighted, the end is nigh.

Minerva:

If Severus' friends within the dark ranks

Deign this guilty homicide to fight 'gainst, 45

Our numbers will swell and Riddle we'll defeat.

Then our world shall no more be opposed

Against acquaintance, kindred and allies;

This edge of war like a sharpened knife

Shall cut away the dark master pilot. 50

Forget not Harry, we be Dumbledore's

Blessed Army with training and good sense.

We be impressed and engag'd to fight.

Harry:

I would that your sanguinity I shared;

If the gods will 'tis all for our vantage, 55

Then in their name and Dumbledore's we march

To avenge Snape and all our murder'd friends!

[Exeunt Harry, Hermione and Minerva stage right]

[Enter stage left Voldemort, Lucius, Bellatrix and other Death Eaters who pitch Voldemort's camp on the left side of stage]

Lucius:

The sun's departing chariot gives my Lord

A golden halo around your worship's face.

It betokens our battle'll be goodly won. 60

Voldemort:

Where is my tent? Here will I lie tonight;

Bid the Goyles and Crabbes pitch it with speed.

[Four Death Eaters do so]

Bella, what be the enemies' numbers?

Bellatrix:

Three or four hundred is their utmost power.

Voldemort:

Why, our numbers quadruple that degree! 65

Hast thou descried the number of my traitors?

Bellatrix:

Why, a hundred of Snape's men at most.

Voldemort:

Let them crawl with their tails between their legs

And see if the other faction would first

To slay them from mercy or return them here! 70

Harken you two, speak to the Death Eaters,

Bid them be of good cheer for tomorrow

Is a busy day for the battle's form.

Bellatrix:

Upon my life, my Lord, I'll undertake it

[Exit Bellatrix stage left]

Lucius:

May heaven grant you hood rest tonight, my Lord! 75

Voldemort:

Good night, my loyal lieutenant Malfoy

[Exit Lucius stage left]

Now I shall consult the morrow's business

In the solitude of my remaining souls.

[Voldemort withdraws into his tent on stage left. The others exeunt]

[Re-enter Harry from his tent stage right, solus]

Harry:

The silent hour steals across the night –

My dreams afflict me with many imploring 80

Beings which may well be spirits or ghosts,

Or else these images be corruptions

Of Voldemort's manifest evil eye.

The cold air envelopes me and mists form;

Curling the white fog into figures tall – 85

Methinks I see my father and mother,

Dumbledore, Snape and other despatch'd friends.

[Enter 'ghost' of Lily Evans, mother of Harry Potter]

Ghost of Lily:

My gentle son, how much thou hast since grown;

May fortune and victory sit on thy helm!

[Exit 'ghost' of Lily Evans]

[Enter 'ghost' of James Potter, father of Harry Potter]

Ghost of James Potter:

I, by attorney, bless thee for thy father. 90

[Exit 'ghost' of James Potter]

[Enter 'ghost' of Sirius Black, godfather of Harry Potter]

Ghost of Sirius Black:

Be thou true to thyself and the Order,

My wronged soul shall fight on thy behalf.

[Exit 'ghost' of Sirius Black]

[Enter ghost of Cedric Diggory, schoolfellow of Harry Potter]

Ghost of Cedric Diggory:

Harry that wast prophesised to defeat

The wretch'd one who must not be named,

I promise here to comfort thee in thy 95

Eternal sleep when all is firmly won.

[Exit 'ghost' of Cedric Diggory]

[Enter ghost of Severus Snape]

Ghost of Severus Snape:

Thou art must conquer the wrongs in thy breast;

Think on Dumbledore and recall the good.

Let me not have lived and died in vain

Or else to Miss Granger, I shall speak 100

To curse thee for thy hereditary

Ingratitude culled in thy selfish blood.

[Exit 'ghost' of Severus Snape]

[Enter 'ghost' of Albus Dumbledore]

Ghost of Dumbledore:

If thou should'st think on naught but revenge

Then the wheels within the riddles have won,

Dwell not on life and death, instead think thou 105

On this fact spun by the lion and the fox:

It is better to act and repent

Than not act and regret.

[Exit 'ghost' of Dumbledore]

Harry:

I must now cover my eyes – these spirits do

Dazzle and confuse my mortal senses. 110

A short rest now ere Eos gently stirs,

Perchance then wisdom I might at last find.

[Harry withdraws into his tent, stage right]

[Enter Voldemort from his tent, stage left]

Voldemort:

Be still my heart while I walk to assuage

Thy frantic beatings from those horrid dreams

Where the spirits of all I have kill'd 115

Return'd to bid me hang myself till death!

And wretched smiling Dumbledore I saw

Made free to offer me a sherbet lemon

To me as currency to ease my souls

Remaining embedded in my body! 120

Wherefore do they cry, 'Guilty, Guilty!'

These meaningless omens I shall dismiss

For when Apollo's chariot's 'gins its rounds

I shalt myself be the proven victor.

[Voldemort withdraws to his tent, stage left]

Act V Scene III

Same as before. Forbidden Forest, Hogwarts grounds, near the Great Lake.

The Order of the Phoenix's camp is on stage right and Voldemort's camp on left. Enter Bellatrix Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy.

Lucius:

Think'st thou it prudent that we encroach

Unto the Order's encampment ere our

Lord the command for severe attack?

What if their guards still be prowling around?

Bellatrix:

Doubt my ability dost thou? I hath 5

Lately uncover'd all here be asleep.

Wert thou not my sister's husband I would

Throw you alone into the lion's den!

Forget not, I am our Lord's right hand

After the death of the two-headed Snape. 10

Lucius:

Thy new glory mark'd thy brow brilliantly.

Pray inform me, sister, what hast thou seen

In thy reconnaissance this deep midnight?

Bellatrix:

Dost thy gall rise to see me advertise

The old departed Fool has newly come 15

Troops of a puissant and powerful might

From our very own ranks. Art thou surpris'd

They be followers of Snape the traitor!

[Enter Hermione Granger, unseen by Lucius and Bellatrix. She silently summons their wands to her hand]

Lucius:

The false mind promiseth much to young fools

Howe'er lamentable Snape's influence 20

Washeth the sands of his followers' mind,

Their numbers ought not be of consequence.

Our forces be of good stout mighty kern

And will march hitherward in proud array:

To proclaim our Lord's right as he comes along. 25

The Order will soon be drave to dispersal;

Thus, Snape's wasted dual role as spy and

Putative sacrifice will be for nought.

Hermione (coming forward):

Ere you embark on a spying mission

Complaisance you should abandon firstly 30

Lest your wand be now in my possession.

Were either of you remotely on guard

You would know'st not all here can sleep

And in the quiet subtle art of spying,

Danger is oft wont to lurk everywhere. 35

Had you two any sense you would have from

Severus Snape who a spy worketh

Hath begg'd to be your pilot in this scheme.

But I do run before you to the fair –

You both think'st too little of his skills, 40

Therein liest your arrogant chief flaw.

Bellatrix:

Thou foul-faced whore! Thou may'st have my wand

But kill thee I still can with my bare hands!

Lucius:

Act not rashly. My son hath bespoken

This wily insignificant creature be 45

The brightest in our times in that art

Of counter-cursing when thou least expect. [Alarums]

Hark! Our lord calleth us to arms. Doth I

Thee leave whilst for help I go anon

Afore we rejoin our mighty liege's side? 50

Hermione:

The camp dost stir, I doubt you can escape.

Bellatrix:

Go now, Lucius, the chit shalt murder'd be

Like Snape's end, her loss will be my joy! [Lucius stands apart, unwilling to flee]

Well, girl, thou art as foolish as Severus

To think thou canst outflank a pureblood's wit 55

That by nature decrees supersedes yours!

[Strikes Hermione with wandless spell. Hermione falls]

Hermione:

Thy strike hath done nought but draw'd blood!

What though it flow from all my orifices,

Thou shalt not impede my vaunted purpose –

To punish thee for snuffing Snape's candle! 60

Bellatrix:

Fool! Thou shalt die like the traitor Snape!

Hermione:

O stay awhile and I will die with thee,

For that in this shell hath die'd with Severus!

Bellatrix:

Thy idle boast has neatly sealed thy fate!

[Strikes Hermione with wandless spell. Fallen Hermione spews blood]

Hermione:

O, thou hast only scratch'd me in this game. 65

Thou dar'st the noble Severus Snape call

A traitor, when thou art should'st first polish

A knut coin to reflect thy perfidious self!

Crucio! Desist soliciting vain suits

[Bellatrix falls to ground from spell]

Relentless be mine ears to thy laments, 70

As thy butcher is pitiless and base,

Which seized on my Severus, sharp-wit knight.

Yet by they power thou think'st to command,

And to thy power, I have only this

Two words to say – Avada Kedavra! 75

[Killing Curse hits the fallen Bellatrix]

Bellatrix:

Is this how I die, by a mudblood's hand? [Dies]

Hermione:

For the love of a mind, I have me aveng'd

But were I full well and not near my end,

I would revenge my love's treacheries on thee,

Painted woman of counterfeit spirit, 80

And on your death, Severus is reveng'd. [Dies]

Lucius:

Bellatrix is lost; this dost not bode well,

My wand I shalt summon ere now I flee!

[Alarums. Exit Lucius]

[Alarums. Enter Ronald Weasley and his troops]

Ron:

What quaint device do I see before me?

Bellatrix slain and Hermione fallen! 85

What age hath ever seen such monstrous deeds!

With Hermione dead, good wizards hath no hope.

The loss of my dear friend through her decease

Ensures that now I swear by her bled corse

To unlease Scylla's untamed barking 90

And drown Bellatrix's forces in their blood!

[Exeunt all]

Act V Scene IV

Same as before. Forbidden Forest, Hogwarts grounds, near the Great Lake.

The Order of the Phoenix's camp is on stage right and Voldemort's camp on left. Alarums. Excursions. Enter Death Eaters and Order of the Phoenix members fighting severally. Enter Lucius Malfoy and Voldemort severally.

Lucius:

My Lord, their forces be overwhelming.

Bellatrix and the Granger chit hath late

Each other by equal power'd force slain

Betwixt their harsh exchange on Severus Snape.

My Lord, we must withdraw if thou should'st live! 5

Voldemort:

Dost thou doubt my immortality then?

Lucius, thou traitor – Avada Kedavra

[Lucius dies]

Out of my sight and never see me more!

Potter's forces hath lost many Aurors,

The bulk of the Weasley clan and Moody, 10

The Granger girl, the youngest two Weasleys

With young Longbottom, his contempo'ries

Hath perished on the Hogwarts' battlefield.

Of my own, I counted many losses

Of the Lestranges, the Malfoys, Wormtail, 15

The warlike Mcnairs, loyal Goyles and Crabbes,

These I shall honour when my throne I seize

Over the wizarding world's scrambling ants.

Would'st Potter find me that him I might slay!

I am puzzl'd in a question about hell: 20

Snape once saith in hell is one material fire,

And yet it shall not burn all men alike.

O ho! How tedious is a guilty conscience!

When I look into the Great Lake of Hogwarts,

Methinks a man I see arm'd with a staff 25

That seems to strike at me fearfully strange.

Look how lovely the scatter'd battle be,

Though my nobles leave me; my state is brav'd,

Even at my Hogwarts' gate, these Order fools,

Persisting in dismantling my kingdom; 30

This kingdom, this confine with blood and power,

Where grave hostility and turmoil reign!

[Enter Harry Potter]

Harry:

Voldemort, how fare thee, thou wretch'd thing?

Th'art ready to be arraign'd as murderer,

Standing at bar and pleading for thy life, 35

As Dumbledore did afore his death?

Or shall thou die with long words like Snape?

Thy brute forces my bosom friends hath slain,

For the suffering that thou did'st inflict,

Satisfaction of blood I claim from thee! 40

Voldemort:

Double meaning prophesiser, you canst

Not venture to steal and murder my souls,

For it means thou wouldst have to kill thyself!

Harry:

Thou art leanest wondrously to discontent. [Laughs]

Voldemort:

Thou would'st laugh at death against thyself? 45

Harry:

My life on earth hath been an adventure,

Death's adventure, I am told, is the same.

Dost thou with thy new-fangled self-made wand

Cautiously withdrawn not share this opinion?

Voldemort:

Thou philosophises like the dead Fool, 50

Dumbledore in his decrepit dotage.

Harry:

Those in their dotage know'st how to die;

And by that know'st how to live forever.

Voldemort:

'Tis in poor taste, Harry Potter, to take

Severus Snape as a moral philosopher. 55

Harry:

Ay, but moral philosophy bringeth

To pass the love of thy own failings,

Voldemort:

By my valour, the most complete champion

Art thou that ever I had myself heard!

Wand, if thou turn the edge or spell out 60

The burly-boned clown of my horcrux

That now I desireth to reclaim;

Thou shalt sleep as a sheath for my new wand!

[Aims a silent curse at Harry, wounding him severely]

Harry:

O ho! Thou art wrong'st me, Voldemort,

I am my own judge, not thee or thy horcrux! 65

And as I thrust thy body in with my wand's spell

[Casts spell on Voldemort. Voldemort falls]

So wish I, I might thrust thy souls to hell. [Harry falls]

Hence, will I drag thee headlong by the heels

Unto a dunghill which shall be thy grave,

And in hell cut off thy most mortal head; 70

Which I will bear in triumph to all those

Thou hast in thy quest for immortality

Proudly betrayed and slew. Thus we die.

[Casts spell over self and Voldemort]

Voldemort:

No! I canst not die; I am a thing immortal! [Dies]

Harry:

As the last horcrux withered 75

I bid the mortal world of pain adieu.

Nunc iners cadat manus.

[Dies]

FOOTNOTES & GLOSSARY

One of my betas informed me that in Act One, not all my footnotes &ca were displayed. There appears to be a word limit on each uploaded section on this website. To remedy this, I will include the glossary and footnotation on a separate page following each Act. Any inconvenience caused is deeply regretted.