SCORPIUS: "Right."

POLLY CHAPMAN: "The Blood Ball, of course. Who you -- the Scorpion King -- are taking to the Blood Ball."

YANN FREDERICKS: "We're still on, right, tomorrow night?"

SCORPIUS: "That's um -- great but -- what are we talking about?"

SCORPIUS is high-fived, it's painful, he takes it.

KARL JENKINS: "Hey, Scorpion King."

POLLY CHAPMAN is standing on the stairs, SCORPIUS turns towards her, surprised to hear her say his name.

POLLY CHAPMAN: "Scorpius."

POLLY CHAPMAN: "Shall we cut to it? I know everyone is waiting to know who you're going to ask because, you know, you need to ask someone and I've been asked by three people already and I know I'm not alone in refusing them all. In case, you know, you were to ask me."

SCORPIUS: "Polly Chapman?"

POLLY CHAPMAN: "Which would be great. If you were interested. Which rumor is -- you are. And I just want to make clear -- at this moment -- that I am also interested. And that isn't a rumor. That's a -- f-a-c-t -- fact."

KARL JENKINS: "Because we are ready to spill some proper Mudblood guts."

SCORPIUS: "What is that screaming?"

There is the sound of screaming behind him.

She bends and carefully cleans the blood off her shoes.

SCORPIUS: "For Voldemort it is."

SCORPIUS: "You -- Polly Chapman -- want me to take you to a -- ball?"

POLLY CHAPMAN: "Like the Augurey insists -- the future is ours to make -- so here I am, making a future -- with you. For Voldemort and Valor."

POLLY walks on, SCORPIUS looks agonized after her.

POLLY CHAPMAN: "Mudbloods, of course. In the dungeons. Your idea, wasn't it? What's going on with you? Oh Potter, I've got blood on my shoes again…"

SCORPIUS: "What is this world -- and what is he within it?"