Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Page #10

LOCATION:
Hogwarts – underground chambers

RON:
Ugh!

HARRY:
Now remember, any sign of movement, close your eyes straightaway.

RON:
Go on.

Scene 30:
Backfire.

HARRY:
This way.

RON:
What’s this?

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: It looks like a... snake.

HARRY:
It’s a snakeskin.

RON:
Bloody hell. Whatever shed this must be sixty feet long-- or more! Heart

of a lion, this one.

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: The adventure ends here, boys. But don’t fret. The world

will know our story. How I was too late to save the girl. How you two

tragically lost your minds at the sight of her mangled body. So, you first,

Mr. Potter. Say good-bye to your memories. Obliviate!

RON:
Harry! Harry!

HARRY:
Ron! Ron, are you ok?

RON:
I’m fine!

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: Uhh... Hello. Who are you?

RON:
Um...Ron Weasley.

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: Really? And uh, who- who am I?

RON:
Lockhart’s memory charm backfired. He hasn’t got a clue who he is!

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: It’s an odd sort of place this, isn’t it? Do you live

here?

RON:
No!

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: Really? WellRON:

What’ll do I do now?

HARRY:
You wait here and try and shift some of this rock so we can get back

through. I’ll go on and find Ginny!

RON:
OK.

HARRY:
Hesha- Hassah.

Scene 31:
Heir of Slytherin.

LOCATION:
Hogwarts – Chamber of Secrets

HARRY:
Ginny... Ginny! Oh, Ginny, please don’t be dead. Wake up. Wake up!

Please, wake up!

TOM RIDDLE:
She won’t wake.

HARRY:
Tom. Tom Riddle! What do you mean, ‘she won’t wake?’ She’s not...?

TOM RIDDLE:
She’s still alive, but only just.

HARRY:
Are you a ghost?

TOM RIDDLE:
A memory, preserved in a diary for fifty years.

HARRY:
She’s cold as ice. Ginny, please don’t be dead. Wake up! You’ve got to

help me, Tom. There’s a basilisk.

TOM RIDDLE:
It won’t come until it’s called.

HARRY:
Give me my wand, Tom.

TOM RIDDLE:
You won’t be needing it.

HARRY:
Listen, we’ve got to go! We’ve got to save her!

TOM RIDDLE:
I’m afraid I can’t do that, Harry. You see, as poor Ginny grows

weaker, I grow stronger. Yes Harry, it was Ginny Weasley who opened the

Chamber of Secrets.

HARRY:
No. She couldn’t. She wouldn’t!

TOM RIDDLE:
It was Ginny who set the basilisk on the Mudbloods and Filch’s

cat, Ginny who wrote the threatening messages on the walls.

HARRY:
But why?

TOM RIDDLE:
Because I told her to. You’ll find that I can be very persuasive.

Not that she knew what she was doing. She was, shall we say, in a kind of

trance. Still, the power of the diary began to scare her. And she tried to

dispose of it in the girl’s bathroom. And then, who should find it, but you?

The very person I was most anxious to meet.

HARRY:
But, why did you want to meet me?

TOM RIDDLE:
I knew I had to talk to you, meet you if I could. So I decided to

show you my capture of that brainless oaf, Hagrid, to gain your trust.

HARRY:
Hagrid’s my friend! And you framed him, didn’t you?

TOM RIDDLE:
It was my word against Hagrid’s. Only Dumbledore seemed to think

he was innocent.

HARRY:
I’ll bet Dumbledore saw right through you.

TOM RIDDLE:
He certainly kept an annoyingly close watch on me after that. I

knew it wouldn’t be safe to open the Chamber again while I was still at

school, so I decided to leave behind a diary preserving my sixteen-year-old

self in its pages, so that one day I would be able to lead another to finish

Salazar Slytherin’s noble work.

HARRY:
Well, you haven’t finished it this time. In a few hours, the Mandrake

Draught will be ready, and everyone who was Petrified will be all right

again.

TOM RIDDLE:
Haven’t I told you? Killing Mudbloods doesn’t matter to me

anymore. For many months now, my new target... has been you. How is it that a

baby, with no extraordinary magical talent, was able to defeat the greatest

wizard of all time? How did you escape with nothing but a scar, while Lord

Voldemort’s powers were destroyed?

HARRY:
Why do you care how I escaped? Voldemort was after your time.

TOM RIDDLE:
Voldemort is my past, present, and future. (writes in the air)

TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE (rearranges) I AM LORD VOLDEMORT

HARRY:
You! You’re the Heir of Slytherin. You’re Voldemort.

TOM RIDDLE:
Surely, you didn’t think I was going to keep my filthy Muggle

father’s name? No. I fashioned myself a new name, a name I knew wizards

everywhere would one day fear to speak, when I became the greatest sorcerer

in the world.

HARRY:
Albus Dumbledore is the greatest sorcerer in the world!

TOM RIDDLE:
Dumbledore’s been driven out of this castle by the mere memory of

me!

HARRY:
He’ll never be gone! Not as long as those who remain are loyal to him!

Fawkes?

TOM RIDDLE:
So, this is what Dumbledore sends his great defender, a songbird

and an old hat. Shearhas- Samnathas- Sélithaeine.

Scene 32:
The Basilisk.

TOM RIDDLE:
Let’s match the power of Lord Voldemort, Heir of Salazar

Slytherin, against the famous Harry Potter. Sethae- He- This. Parseltongue

won’t save you now, Potter. It only obeys me!

TOM RIDDLE:
No! Your bird may have blinded the basilisk, but it can still

hear you!

TOM RIDDLE:
Yes, Potter, the process is nearly complete. In a few minutes

Ginny will be dead, and I will cease to be a memory. Lord Voldemort will

return- very... much... alive!

HARRY:
Ginny-

Scene 33:
Healing powers.

TOM RIDDLE:
Remarkable isn’t it, how quickly the venom of the basilisk

penetrates the body? I’d guess you have little more than a minute to live.

You’ll be with your dear Mudblood mother soon, Harry. Funny, the damage a

silly little book can do... especially in the hands of a silly, little girl.

What are you doing? Stop. No! Ahhhh! Ahhhh! Ahhhh!

HARRY:
Ginny...

GINNY:
Harry. It was me- but I swear, I didn’t mean to! Riddle made me,

and... Harry, you’re hurt!

HARRY:
Don’t worry. Ginny, you need to get yourself out. Follow the Chamber,

and you’ll find Ron. You were brilliant, Fawkes. I just wasn’t quick

enough... Of course! Phoenix tears have healing powers. Thanks! It’s alright,

Ginny. It’s over. It’s just a memory.

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