
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Scene 1:
In a cage.LOCATION:
Little Whinging, Surrey – nightLOCATION:
No. Four Privet Drive – Harry’s room - nightHARRY:
I can’t let you out, Hedwig. I’m not allowed to use magic outside ofschool. Besides, if Uncle VernonUNCLE
VERNON:
Harry Potter!HARRY:
Now you’ve done it.AUNT PETUNIA:
He’s in there. Vernon...UNCLE VERNON:
I’m warning you, if you can’t control that bloody bird it’llhave to go.
HARRY:
But she’s bored! If I could only let out for an hour or twoUNCLEVERNON:
Huh, huh! So you could send secret messages to you freakylittle friends. No, sir!
HARRY:
But I haven’t had any messages from any of my friends... not one...all summer.
DUDLEY:
Who’d want to be friends with you?UNCLE VERNON:
I should think you’d be a little more grateful. We’ve raisedyou since you were a baby, given you the food off our table, even let you
have Dudley’s second bedroom, purely out of the goodness of our hearts.
AUNT PETUNIA:
Not now, Bopkins. For when the Masons arrive.UNCLE VERNON:
Which should be any minute! Ahem...Now let’s go over ourschedule once again, shall we? Petunia when the Masons arrive you will be...?
AUNT PETUNIA:
...in the lounge, waiting to welcome them graciously into ourhome.
UNCLE VERNON:
Good! And- and Dudley, you will be...?DUDLEY:
I’ll be waiting to open the door!UNCLE VERNON:
Excellent! ...And you...?HARRY:
I’ll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending that I don’texist.
UNCLE VERNON:
Too right, you will. With any luck, this could well be the dayI make the biggest deal of my career. And you will not mess it up!
Scene 2:
Dobby’s warning.LOCATION:
No. Four Privet Drive – Harry’s room - night(Ding-dong!)
UNCLE VERNON:
Mr. and Mrs. Mason! Do come in!DOBBY:
Ha- ha- ha! Ha, ha! Ho, ho, ho! Ha, ha! Harry Potter! Such an honor itis!
HARRY:
Who are you?DOBBY:
Dobby sir, Dobby the house elf.HARRY:
Not to be to be rude or anything, but this isn’t a great time for meto have a house elf in my bedroom.
DOBBY:
Oh, oh yes, sir! Dobby understands! It’s just that, Dobby has come totell you- it is difficult, sir- Dobby wonders where to begin?
HARRY:
Why don’t you sit down?DOBBY:
S-sit down? S-sit- sit down? Oh, oh, ho. Oh, ho, ho... Oh, ho, ho.Ohh, ho, hoo...
HARRY:
Dobby, ssh! I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to offend you, or anything.DOBBY:
Offend Dobby? Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but never has hebeen asked to sit down by a wizard, like an equal.
HARRY:
You can’t have met many decent wizards then.DOBBY:
No, I haven’t. That was an awful thing to say. Bad Dobby!HARRY:
Stop, Dobby!DOBBY:
Bad Dobby!HARRY:
Dobby, shh!DOBBY:
Baaad Dobby!HARRY:
Dobby, please stop!LOCATION:
No. Four Privet Drive – Living room - nightUNCLE VERNON:
Ohh, don’t mind that! It’s just the cat.LOCATION:
No. Four Privet Drive – Harry’s room - nightDOBBY:
Bad Dobby. Bad Dobby!HARRY:
Stop! Stop, Dobby. Please be quiet! Are you all right?DOBBY:
Dobby had to punish himself, sir. Dobby almost spoke ill of hisfamily, sir.
HARRY:
Your family?DOBBY:
The wizard family Dobby serves, sir. Dobby is bound to serve onefamily forever. If they ever knew Dobby was here...ooh... But Dobby had to
come. Dobby has to protect Harry Potter- to warn him. Harry Potter must not
go back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year! There is a
plot, a plot to make most terrible things happen.
HARRY:
What terrible things? Who’s plotting them?DOBBY:
Ooo... er... can’t... say... argh...HARRY:
Ok– I- understand. You can’t- say.DOBBY:
Don’t make me talk, I— Errr...HARRY:
Dobby! Dobby, put the lamp down.DOBBY:
Bad Dobby.
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