Harry Potter Part 4

Harry stands in front of a mirror.  He sees his parents in the mirror.  They smile and his mother puts her hand on his shoulder.

HARRY
Mum? Dad?

Harry wakes up Ron to show him the mirror.

HARRY
Ron, you've really gotta see this! Ron, you've gotta see this!
Ron, come on, get out of bed!

RON
Why?

HARRY
There's something you've got to see!

Harry and Ron go to the mirror.

HARRY

Come on! Come! Come look, it's my parents!

RON
I only see us.

HARRY
Look in properly. Go on, stand there. There. You see them, don't you?

RON
That's me! Only I'm head boy. And I'm holding the Quidditch Cup.
And bloody hell! I'm Quidditch captain too! I look good.
Harry, do you think this mirror shows the future?

HARRY
How can it? Both my parents are dead.

Harry goes to the mirror again and Dumbledore appears.

DUMBLEDORE

Back again, Harry? I see that you, like many before you...
...have discovered the delights of the Mirror of Erised.
I trust by now you realize what it does. Let me give you a clue.
The happiest man on earth...would look in the mirror and see only

himself...exactly as he is.

HARRY
So then, it shows us what we want. Whatever we want.

DUMBLEDORE
Yes. And no. It shows us nothing more or less...than the deepest and most desperate
desires of our hearts. Now you, Harry, who have never known your family...
...you see them standing beside you. But remember this, Harry.
This mirror gives us neither knowledge...or truth. Men have wasted away in front of it.
Even gone mad. That is why tomorrow it will be moved to a new home.
And I must ask you... not to go looking for it again. It does not do to dwell on dreams...
...and forget to live.

Harry releases the owl.

INT. LIBRARY

Ron, Hermione, and Harry are looking for information on the Philosopher's Stone.
HERMIONE
I had you looking in the wrong section. How could I be so stupid?
I checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading.

RON
This is light?

HERMIONE
Of course! Here it is! Nicholas Flamel is the only known
maker of the Philosopher's Stone.

HARRY RON
The what?

HERMIONE
Honestly, don't you two read? "The Philosopher's Stone is a legendary
substance with astonishing powers. It'll transform any metal

into pure gold...and produces the Elixir of Life
which will make the drinker immortal."

RON
Immortal?

HERMIONE
It means you'll never die.

RON
I know what it means!

HERMIONE
"The only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr. Nicholas Flamel.
...the noted alchemist who last year celebrated his 665th birthday."
That's what Fluffy's guarding. That's what's under the trap door.
The Philosopher's Stone.

They go to Hagrid's house.

HAGRID
Don't wish to be rude, but I'm in no state to entertain.

HARRY, RON, HERMIONE (TOGETHER)
We know about the Philosopher's Stone.

HARRY
We think Snape's trying to steal it.

HAGRID
Are you still on about him?

HARRY
We know he's after it. We don't know why.

HAGRID
Snape is one of the teachers protecting the Stone. He won't steal it.

RON
What?

HAGRID

You heard. Come on, I'm a bit preoccupied today.

RON
Wait a minute. "One of the teachers"?

HERMIONE
There are other things defending the Stone, aren't there? Spells, enchantments.

HAGRID
Right. Waste of bloody time, if you ask me. Ain't no one gonna get past Fluffy.
Ain't a soul knows how, except for me and Dumbledore. I shouldn't have told you that.
I should not have told you that.

HARRY
Hagrid, what exactly is that?

Hagrid has a baby dragon.

HAGRID
That? It's...

RON
I know what that is! But, Hagrid, how did you get one?

HAGRID
I won it. Off a stranger. I met down at the pub.
Seemed quite glad to be rid of it, as a matter of fact.

HERMIONE
Is that...a dragon?

RON

That's not just a dragon. That's a Norwegian Ridgeback.
My brother works with these in Romania.

HAGRID
Isn't he beautiful? Oh, bless him. Look, he knows his mummy.
Hello, Norbert.

RON

Norbert?

HAGRID

He's gotta have a name, don't he?
Don't you, Norbert?

Norbert sends out fire. Hagrid’s mustache burns.

HAGRID
He'll have to be trained up a bit, of course.

Malfoy is watching them through the window.

HAGRID

Who's that?

They look through the window. Malfoy runs away.

HARRY
Malfoy.

HAGRID
Oh, dear.

INT. PASSAGE

Harry, Ron, and Hermione walk in the passage.

HARRY

Hagrid always wanted a dragon. Told me so the first time I met him.

Malfoy sees them.

RON
It's crazy. And worse, Malfoy knows.

HERMIONE
I don't understand. Is that bad?

HARRY
It's bad.

They meet McGonagall.

MCGONAGALL
Good evening.

McGonagall lectures them..

MCGONAGALL
Nothing, I repeat, nothing...gives a student the right
to walk about at night. Therefore, as punishment for your
actions, 50 points will be taken.

HARRY
50?!

MCGONAGALL
Each. To ensure it doesn't happen again...all four of you
will receive detention.

MALFOY
Excuse me, professor, perhaps I heard you wrong. I thought you said
the four of us.

MCGONAGALL
No, you heard me correctly. Honorable as your intentions were,
you too were out of bed after hours. You will join your classmates
in detention.

Malfoy is angry.

INT. CORRIDOR
Filch is leading the students.

FILCH
A pity they let the old punishments die. Was a time detention found you
hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons. God, I miss the screaming.
They arrive at Hagrid’s house. Hagrid comes out of his house.

FILCH
You'll be serving detention with Hagrid tonight.
He's got a little job to do inside the Dark Forest.

They stop.

FILCH
A sorry lot, this, Hagrid. Good God, you're not still on about that bloody
dragon, are you?

HAGRID
Norbert's gone.

Hagrid takes a crossbow in his hand.

HAGRID
Dumbledore sent him off to Romania to live in a colony.

HERMIONE
That's good, isn't it? He's with his own kind.

HAGRID
What if he don't like Romania?

Hagrid looks displeased.

HAGRID
What if the other dragons are mean to him? He's only a baby.

FILCH
For God's sake, pull yourself together. You're going into the Forest.
Got to have your wits about you.

MALFOY
The Forest? I thought that was a joke. We can't go in there.

Filch stares at Malfoy.

MALFOY
Students aren't allowed. And there are...werewolves.

FILCH
There's more than werewolves in those trees. You can be sure of that.
Nighty-night.

HAGRID
Right. Let's go.

They go to the forest.

HARRY
Hagrid, what is that?

Hagrid picks up the unicorn's blood.

HAGRID
What we're here for. See that? That's unicorn blood, that is.
I found one dead a few weeks ago. Now, this one's been hurt bad
by something. So, it's our job to go and find the poor beast.
Ron, Hermione, come with me. And, Harry, you'll go with Malfoy.

MALFOY
Okay. Then I get Fang.

HAGRID
Fine. Just so you know, he's a bloody coward.

Harry and Malfoy walk to the forest.

MALFOY
Wait till my father hears about this. This is servant's stuff.

HARRY
If I didn't know better, I'd say you were scared.

MALFOY
I'm not scared, Potter.

HARRY
Do you hear that?

MALFOY
Come on, Fang. Scared!

Fang stops walking.

HARRY
What is it, Fang?

There is a man wearing a hood. He drinks unicorn's blood.
Malfoy and Fang run away. The man approaches Harry, but a
centaur comes and beats the man. The man runs away.
The centaur speaks to Harry.

FIRENZE
Harry Potter, you must leave. You are known to many creatures here.
The Forest is not safe at this time. Especially for you.

HARRY
What was that thing you saved me from?

FIRENZE
A monstrous creature. It is a terrible crime to slay a unicorn.
Drinking its blood will keep you alive even if you are an inch
from death. But at a terrible price. For you have slain something
so pure that the moment the blood touches your lips, you will have
a half-life. A cursed life.

HARRY
Who would choose such a life?

FIRENZE
Can you think of no one?

HARRY
Do you mean to say that that thing that killed the unicorn
that was drinking its blood, that was Voldemort?

FIRENZE
Do you know what is hidden in the school at this very moment?

HARRY
The Philosopher's Stone.

Fang and Ron and Hermione come.

HAGRID
Harry! Hello there, Firenze. See you've met our young Mr. Potter.
You all right there, Harry?

FIRENZE
Harry Potter, this is where I leave you.
You're safe now. Good luck.

INT. DORMITORY

HERMIONE
You mean, You-Know-Who is out there right now in the Forest?

HARRY
But he's weak. He's living off the unicorns. Don't you see?
We had it wrong. Snape doesn't want the Stone for himself.
He wants it for Voldemort. With the Elixir of Life,
Voldemort will be strong again. He'll come back.

RON
But if he comes back...you don't think he'll try
to kill you, do you?

HARRY
If he'd had the chance, he might have tried tonight.

RON
And to think I've been worrying about my Potions final.

HERMIONE
Hang on a minute. We're forgetting one thing.

Who's the one wizard Voldemort always feared?

Dumbledore. As long as Dumbledore is around, Harry, you're safe.
As long as Dumbledore is around, you can't be touched.

INT. HALL
Ron, Harry, and Hermione are walking.

HERMIONE
I'd heard Hogwarts' final exams were
frightful, but I found that enjoyable.

RON
Speak for yourself. All right there, Harry?

HARRY
My scar. It keeps burning.

RON
It's happened before.

HARRY
Not like this.

HERMIONE
You should see the nurse.

HARRY
I think it's a warning. It means danger's coming.
Of course!

RON
What is it?

HARRY
Isn't it odd that what Hagrid wants more than anything is a dragon...
...and a stranger just happens to have one? How many people wander around
with dragon eggs? Why didn't I see it before?

They run to Hagrid.

HARRY
Who gave you the egg? What did he look like?

HAGRID
I never saw his face. He kept his hood up.

HARRY
You and this stranger must have talked.

HAGRID
He wanted to know what sort of creatures I looked after.
I said, "After Fluffy, a dragon's gonna be no problem."

HARRY
Was he interested in Fluffy?

HAGRID
Of course he was interested. How often do you come across
a three-headed dog?

HAGRID
But I told him, "The trick with any beast is to know how to calm him."
Take Fluffy, for example. Play him music and he falls straight to sleep.
I shouldn't have told you that. Where are you going?

Harry, Ron, and Hermione run to see Dumbledore.  They see McGonagall.

HERMIONE
We have to see Dumbledore.
Immediately!

MCGONAGALL
I'm afraid he's not here. He received an urgent owl
from the Ministry of Magic and left.

HARRY
He's gone? But this is important!
This is about the Philosopher's Stone!

MCGONAGALL
How do you know...?

HARRY
Someone's going to try and steal it.

MCGONAGALL
I don't know how you know, but I assure you it is well protected.
Now would you go back to your dormitories? Quietly.

INT. CORRIDOR

HARRY
That was no stranger Hagrid met. It was Snape.
Which means he knows how to get past Fluffy.

HERMIONE
And with Dumbledore gone...

Snape appears.

SNAPE
Good afternoon. What would three young Gryffindors...
...be doing inside on a day like this?

HERMIONE
We were just...

SNAPE
You ought to be careful. People will think you're...up to something.

HERMIONE
Now what do we do?

HARRY
We go down the trap door. Tonight.

HARRY
Trevor.

RON
Trevor, go! You shouldn't be here!

NEVILLE
Neither should you. You're sneaking out again, aren't you?

RON
Neville, listen. We were...

NEVILLE
No, I won't let you! You'll get Gryffindor into trouble again.
I'll fight you.

HERMIONE
Neville, I'm really sorry about this. Petrificus Totalus.

Neville is frozen.

RON
You're a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant, but scary.

HARRY
Let's go.

Harry looks at Neville.

HARRY
Sorry. It's for your own good, you know.

They walk down the street.

HERMIONE
You stood on my foot!

RON
Sorry.

HERMIONE
Alohomora.

They open the door.  The 3-headed dog is sleeping.

HARRY
Wait a minute. He's...snoring. Snape's already been here.
He's put a spell on the harp.

RON
It's got horrible breath.

HARRY
We have to move its paw.

RON
What?

HARRY
Come on!

They move the paw.

HARRY
Okay. Push.

They push a stone and open a door.

HARRY
I'll go first. Don't follow until I give you a sign.
If something bad happens, get yourselves out. Does it
 seem a bit quiet to you?

HERMIONE
The harp. It's stopped playing.

The dog's spit falls on them.  It is awake.

HARRY
Jump!

Harry, Ron, and Hermione fall into the vertical hole.

RON
Lucky this plant thing's here, really.

They are trapped by the plant.  They struggle.

HERMIONE
Stop moving, both of you. This is Devil's Snare. You have to relax. If you don't,
it will only kill you faster.

RON
Kill us faster? Oh, now I can relax!

Hermione is drawn into the plant.

HARRY and RON
Hermione!

RON
Now what are we gonna do?

HARRY
Just relax!

RON
Hermione, where are you?

HARRY
Do what I say! Trust me.

Harry is also drawn into the plant.  Ron continues to struggle.
Harry sees Hermione below the plant.

HERMIONE
Are you okay?

HARRY
Yeah, I'm fine.

Ron is screaming.

HERMIONE
He's not relaxing, is he?

HARRY
Apparently not.

HERMIONE
We've gotta do something.

HARRY
What?

HERMIONE
I remember reading something in Herbology.
Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare.
It's deadly fun...
...but will sulk in the sun!
That's it! It hates sunlight.
Lumus Solem.

Sunlight shines from Hermione's wand. And Ron is drawn into the plant.

HARRY
Ron, you okay?

RON
Yeah. Lucky we didn't panic.

HARRY
Lucky Hermione pays attention in Herbology.

They hear a sound on the other side of the door.

HERMIONE
What is that?

HARRY
I don't know. Sounds like wings.

Questions
1.  Why is the Mirror of Erised dangerous?
2.  Why does Voldemort want the Elixir of Life?
3.  How do Harry and his friends escape from Devil's Snare?