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But that night, back in the future, the world had changed. The Hogwarts they returned to was a mausoleum under a blood-red sky. The Great Hall’s enchanted ceiling wept ash. A massive bronze statue of Lord Voldemort stood where the staff table had been, and kneeling before it, bound in silver chains, was Hermione Granger—no, Hermione Malfoy . Her eyes were hollow.

“Cedric,” Albus called, stepping from behind a boulder. “You’re about to lose. Badly. But it’s not about winning. It’s about… showing mercy. Use the Bubble-Head Charm, but when you see the hostages? Don’t take the fastest route. Wait. Stumble. Let Harry Potter catch up.”

“Albus?” Scorpius whispered.

“The prisoner’s son,” this Harry sneered. “Interrogation Room Seven. Now.”

“My father is a living scar,” Albus replied bitterly. “And he’d rather I were someone else. What if we just… tweak one thing? The Triwizard Tournament. The second task. What if Cedric Diggory never felt the humiliation of losing? Then he wouldn’t have been in that graveyard. He wouldn’t have died.” Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One an...

And three thousand miles away, in a quiet bedroom at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, the present-day Harry Potter woke from a dream of drowning. He walked to Albus’s empty room, sat on the unmade bed, and for the first time in years, he didn’t think about Voldemort or Cedric or the Ministry.

Cedric frowned. “Who are you?”

And for the first time in Albus’s life, that felt like enough. End.

“You don’t know me,” Albus had whispered, pushing his untouched treacle tart aside. “You only know the boy you wanted me to be.” But that night, back in the future, the world had changed

It was the day of the Second Task, 1995.

“You thought you were saving my father,” she said softly, stepping over a broken hourglass. “But you only delayed his shame by one day. The night after the Task, he still went to the graveyard. Only this time, he didn’t die. He watched . He saw Potter fail to save the Diggory honor. And when Voldemort offered him a chance to make the world ‘fair’—he took it. Cedric Diggory is the new Lord Voldemort. And I am his daughter.” A massive bronze statue of Lord Voldemort stood