Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Page #4

Scene 12:
Mudbloods and murmurs.

LOCATION:
Hogwarts – exterior - daytime

LOCATION:
Hogwarts – Quidditch pitch - daytime

WOOD:
I spent the summer devising a whole new Quidditch program. We are gonna

train earlier, harder, and longer. What- I don’t believe it! Where do you

think you’re goin’, Flint?

MARCUS FLINT:
Quidditch practice.

WOOD:
I booked the pitch for Gryffindor today.

MARCUS FLINT:
Easy, Wood. I’ve got a note.

RON:
Uh-oh. I smell trouble.

WOOD:
“I, Professor Severus Snape, do hereby give the Slytherin team

permission to practice today, owing to the need to train their new Seeker.”

You’ve got a new Seeker. Who?

HARRY:
Malfoy?

DRACO:
That’s right. And that’s not all that new this year.

RON:
Those are Nimbus Two Thousand and Ones! How did you get those?

MARCUS FLINT:
A gift from Draco’s father.

DRACO:
You see Weasley, unlike some, my father can afford the best.

HERMIONE:
At least no one on the Gryffindor team had to buy their way in.

They got it on pure talent.

DRACO:
No one asked your opinion, you filthy little Mudblood!

RON:
You’ll pay for that one, Malfoy. Eat slugs!

OTHERS:
Ha, ha, ha!

DRACO:
Ha, ha!

HERMIONE:
You okay, Ron? Say something!

RON:
(Blech...)

OTHER:
Ooh! Ugh! Yech!

COLIN:
(flash) Wow! Can you turn him around, Harry?

HARRY:
No, Colin! Get out of the way! Let’s take him to Hagrid’s.

RON:
(Blech...)

HARRY:
He’ll know what to do.

OTHERS:
Ha, ha, ha...

DRACO:
Ha, ha...

LOCATION:
Hogwarts – Hagrid’s hut - daytime

HAGRID:
Wo, this calls for a specialist’s equipment. Nothin’ to do but

wait’ll it stops, I’m afraid.

RON:
(Blech...)

HARRY:
Ah! Oh... Okay.

HAGRID:
Better out than in. Who’s Ron tryin’ to curse, anyway?

HARRY:
Malfoy. He called Hermione, ...um, well, I don’t- I don’t know exactly

what it means.

HERMIONE:
He called me a Mudblood.

HAGRID:
He did not!

HARRY:
What’s a Mudblood?

HERMIONE:
It means “dirty blood.” Mudblood’s a really foul name for someone

who is Muggle-born. Someone with non-magic parents. Someone like me. It’s not

a term one usually hears in civilized conversation.

HAGRID:
See, the thing is, Harry, there’re some wizards, like the Malfoy

family, who think they’re better’n everyone else because they’re what people

call “pure blood.”

HARRY:
That’s horrible!

RON:
(Blech...) It’s disgusting.

HAGRID:
And it’s codswallop, to boot. “Dirty blood.” Why, there isn’t a

wizard alive today that’s not half blood or less. More ter the point, they’ve

yet to think of a spell that our Hermione can’ do. Come here... Don’t you

think on it, Hermione. Don’t you think on it for one minute... eh?

LOCATION:
Hogwarts – Professor Lockhart’s office - night

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: Harry, Harry, Harry... Can you possibly imagine a better

way to serve detention than by helping me to answer my fan mail?

HARRY:
Not really.

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity

does. Remember that.

VOICE:
Come, come, come to me. Come to me!

HARRY:
What?

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: Sorry?

HARRY:
That voice.

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: Voice?

HARRY:
Didn’t you hear it?

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: What are you talking about, Harry? I think we’re getting

a bit a- drowsy. And, Great Scott- no wonder! Look at the time! We’ve been

here nearly four hours! Spooky how the time flies when one’s having fun. Heh,

heh.

HARRY:
Spooky.

Scene 13:
Writing on the wall.

LOCATION:
Hogwarts – corridor - night

VOICE:
Blood. I smell blood. Let me rip you. Let me kill you. Kill! Kill!

Kill!

HERMIONE:
Harry!

HARRY:
Did you hear it?

RON:
Hear what?

HARRY:
That voice.

HERMIONE:
Voice? What voice?

HARRY:
I heard it first in Lockhart’s office. And then again just—

VOICE:
It’s time.

HARRY:
It’s moving. I think it’s going to kill.

RON:
Kill?

HERMIONE:
Harry, wait! Not so fast!

LOCATION:
Hogwarts – flooded corridor – night

HARRY:
Strange. I’ve never seen spiders act like that.

RON:
I don’t like spiders... What’s that?

HERMIONE:
‘The Chamber of Secrets has been opened... enemies the heir...

beware.’ It’s written in blood.

HARRY:
Oh, no... It’s Filch’s cat. It’s Mrs. Norris.

OTHERS:
(mumble, mumble) Ahhh! What’s that?

MADAME POMFREY:
Oh!

DRACO:
‘Enemies of the heir beware!’ You’ll be next, Mudbloods!

FILCH:
What’s going on ‘ere? Go on, make way, make way. Potter-- What are

you...Mrs. Norris? You’ve...murdered my cat.

HARRY:
No. No.

FILCH:
I’ll kill ya... I’ll kill ya!

DUMBLEDORE:
Argus! Argus, I... Everyone will proceed to their dormitories

immediately. Everyone except... you three.

OTHER:
Ravenclaws, follow me!

DUMBLEDORE:
She’s not dead, Argus. She has been Petrified.

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: Ah, thought so. So unlucky I wasn’t there. I know exactly

the counter curse that could have spared her.

DUMBLEDORE:
But how she has been Petrified, I cannot say...

FILCH:
Ask him. It’s him who’s done it. You saw what he wrote on the wall.

HARRY:
It’s not true sir, I swear. I never touched Mrs. Norris.

FILCH:
Rubbish!

SNAPE:
If I might, Headmaster? Perhaps Potter and his friends were simply in

the wrong place at the wrong time. However, the circumstances are suspicious.

I, for one, don’t recall seeing Potter at dinner.

PROFESSOR LOCKHART: I’m afraid that’s my doing, Severus. You see, Harry was

helping me answer my fan mail.

HERMIONE:
That’s why Ron and I went looking for him, Professor. We’d just

found him when he said...

SNAPE:
Yes, Miss Granger?

HARRY:
When I said I wasn’t hungry. We were heading back to the common room

when we found Mrs. Norris.

DUMBLEDORE:
Innocent until proven guilty, Severus.

FILCH:
My cat has been Petrified. I wanna see some punishment!

DUMBLEDORE:
We will be able to cure her, Argus. As I understand it, Madame

Sprout has a very healthy growth of Mandrakes. When matured, a potion will be

made which will revive Mrs. Norris. And in the meantime, I strongly recommend

caution... to all.

LOCATION:
Hogwarts – moving staircase - night

HERMIONE:
It’s a bit strange, isn’t it?

HARRY:
Strange?

HERMIONE:
You hear this voice, a voice only you can hear, and then Mrs.

Norris turns up Petrified. It’s just... strange.

HARRY:
Do you think I should have told them? Dumbledore and the others, I

mean?

RON:
Are you mad?

HERMIONE:
No, Harry. Even in the wizarding world, hearing voices isn’t a good

sign.

Picture:
She’s right, you know.

Scene 14:
About the Chamber.

LOCATION:
Hogwarts – Transfiguration classroom - daytime

PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL: Could I have your attention, please? Right. Now, today,

we will be transforming animals into water goblets. Like so. One, two, three,

Vera verto. Now it’s your turn. Well, who would like to go first? Ah! Mr.

Weasley. “One, two, three. Vera verto.”

RON:
Ahem. Vera verto!

OTHERS:
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...

PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL: That wand needs replacing, Mr. Weasley. Yes, Miss

Granger?

HERMIONE:
Professor, I was wondering if you could tell us about...the Chamber

of Secrets?

PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL: Well, very well. Well, you all know, of course, that

Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by the four greatest witches

and wizards of the age: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena

Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. Now, three of the founders coexisted quite

harmoniously. One did not.

RON:
Three guesses who.

PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL: Salazar Slytherin wished to be more selective about the

students admitted to Hogwarts. He believed magical learning should be kept

within all-magic families. In other words, “pure-bloods.” Unable to sway the

others, he decided to leave the school. Now, according to legend, Slytherin

had built a hidden chamber in this castle, known as the Chamber of Secrets.

Though, shortly before departing, he sealed it until that time when his own

true heir returned to the school. The heir alone would be able to open the

Chamber and unleash the horror within, and by so doing purge the school of

all those who, in Slytherin’s view, were unworthy to study magic.

HERMIONE:
Muggle-borns.

PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL: Well, naturally, the school had been searched many

times. No such chamber has been found.

HERMIONE:
Professor? What exactly does legend tell us lies within the

Chamber?

PROFESSOR MCGONAGALL: Well, the Chamber is said to home to something that

only the Heir of Slytherin can control. It is said to be the home of a

monster.

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