HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS
Fan screenplay by Wui-Ming Gan, based on the novel by J. K. Rowling
Chapter 12: The Deathly Hallows
INT. TENT - LATER
HARRY, HERMIONE and RON are seated in the tent.
RON
How did you find out about the
Taboo?
HARRY
The what?
RON
You and Hermione have stopped
saying You-Know-Who's name.
HARRY
Oh, yeah. Well, it's just a bad
habit we've slipped into. But I
haven't got a problem calling him
—
RON
No! The name's been jinxed, Harry,
that's how they track people!
HERMIONE
So that's how they found us so
quickly in Tottenham Court Road!
HARRY
Because we used his name?
HERMIONE
It makes sense. The only people
who ever dared use his name were
people who were serious about
standing up to him. Putting a
Taboo on it's a quick-and-easy way
to find Order members!
RON
They nearly got Kingsley, but he
fought his way out.
HERMIONE
Speaking of which, how exactly did
you find us?
RON pulls out the Deluminator from his pocket.
RON
With this.
HERMIONE
The Deluminator?
RON
Apparently, it doesn't just turn
the lights on and off. It showed
me the way back to you. I guess
Dumbledore knew I'd run out on
you.
HARRY
No, he knew you'd always want to
come back.
HERMIONE
Well, at least we know now that
Dumbledore left us both the sword
and the Deluminator for a reason.
She pulls out The Tales of Beedle the Bard and begins to
flip through its pages.
HERMIONE (cont'd)
I wish I knew what he wants us to
do with a book of fairy tales.
Suddenly, she lets out a squeal of excitement.
HERMIONE (cont'd)
Harry, look!
She thrusts the book at him. At the top of a page is the
triangular sign she saw earlier in the graveyard.
HERMIONE (cont'd)
That's the mark on the grave in
Godric's Hollow! I knew I'd seen
it before!
HERMIONE reads aloud the title under the sign, and the
story that follows.
HERMIONE (cont'd)
The Tale of the Three Brothers.
There were once three brothers who
were traveling along a lonely
winding road at twilight.
EXT. A WINDING ROAD - EVENING
The three Peverell brothers are walking along the road,
and the story that HERMIONE reads is enacted on screen.
HERMIONE (V.O.)
In time, the brothers reached a
river too deep to wade through and
too dangerous to swim across.
However, these brothers were
learned in the magical arts, and
so they simply waved their wands
and made a bridge appear across
the treacherous water. They were
halfway across it when they found
their path blocked by a hooded
figure. And Death spoke to them —
INT. TENT - NIGHT
HARRY
Hang on — Death spoke to them?
HERMIONE
It's a fairy tale, Harry!
EXT. BRIDGE - EVENING
HERMIONE (V.O.)
And Death spoke to them, and said
that each had earned a prize for
having been clever enough to evade
him.
INT. TENT - NIGHT
HERMIONE
The oldest brother asked for a
wand more powerful than any in
existence. The second brother
asked for a stone with the power
to recall others from Death. The
youngest brother was the humblest
and wisest of the brothers, and he
asked for something that would
enable him to go forth from that
place without being followed by
Death. And Death, most
unwillingly, handed over his own
Cloak of Invisibility.
EXT. BRIDGE - EVENING
The scene from the fairy tale unfolds once more on screen
as HERMIONE continues the tale.
HERMIONE (V.O.)
Then Death stood aside and allowed
the three brothers to continue on
their way. The first brother
proceeded to an inn, where he
boasted loudly of the powerful
wand he had snatched from Death
himself. That very night, another
wizard crept upon the oldest
brother, took the Wand of Destiny
and slit the oldest brother's
throat. And so Death took the
first brother for his own.
Meanwhile, the second brother
journeyed to his own home and
turned the stone thrice in his
hand. To his delight, the figure
of the girl he had once hoped to
marry, before her untimely death,
appeared at once before him. Yet
she was sad and cold, separated
from him as by a veil.
Finally the second brother, driven
mad with hopeless longing, killed
himself so as truly to join her.
And so Death took the second
brother for his own.
INT. TENT - NIGHT
HERMIONE
But though Death searched for the
third brother for many years, he
was never able to find him.
INT. IGNOTUS PEVERELL'S HOUSE - NIGHT
An aged IGNOTUS takes off his cloak and hands it to his
SON. DEATH appears before him.
HERMIONE (V.O.)
It was only when he had attained a
great age that the youngest
brother finally took off the Cloak
of Invisibility and gave it to his
son. And then he greeted Death as
an old friend and, equals, they
departed this life.
INT. TENT - NIGHT
HERMIONE
Someone's scribbled a footnote
here.
(reading it)
The Deathly Hallows.
HARRY
The man with that mark on his
grave, what was his name —
HERMIONE
Ignotus Peverell.
HARRY
— you don't suppose he was one of
the three brothers, do you?
HERMIONE
It's a fairy tale, Harry!
RON
But some fairy tales are based on
truth, aren't they?
What if these... Peverell brothers
actually created these... Deathly
Hallows? I mean, we've got the
Invisibility Cloak right here!
HERMIONE
What about the Resurrection Stone?
That can't exist!
HARRY
Marvolo Gaunt! You-Know-Who's
grandfather! He said he was
descended from the Peverells! The
ring, the ring that became the
Horcrux! What if it was the
Resurrection Stone?
HERMIONE
No magic can raise the dead,
Harry!
HARRY
That night in the graveyard, when
my wand connected with You-Know
Who's, it made my mom and dad
appear... and Cedric...
HERMIONE
But they weren't really back from
the dead, were they?
RON
Neither was the girl in the tale.
HARRY suddenly touches his scar in pain.
EXT. NURMENGARD - NIGHT
VOLDEMORT is flying upwards, up to the topmost floor of
the highest tower of the black fortress.
INT. GRINDELWALD'S CELL, NURMENGARD - NIGHT
A large chunk of the wall is blown to pieces, and there
in mid-air is VOLDEMORT. Inside the cell sits an ancient
looking GRINDELWALD.
GRINDELWALD
Voldemort! We meet at last.
VOLDEMORT
Where is it?
GRINDELWALD
An old friend once told me to try
for some remorse. After all these
years, I think I finally —
VOLDEMORT
Give it to me, old man!
GRINDELWALD
Kill me if you wish! That wand
will never be yours!
INT. TENT - NIGHT
HARRY
That's what he's after!
RON
The stone?
HARRY
No, the wand!
HERMIONE
Cedric was after the wand?
HARRY
No, Voldemort —
At the mention of that name, RON leaps to his feet.
RON
I told you, Harry, the name's
Taboo! It's how they find —
The tent suddenly disintegrates around them, and they
find themselves surrounded by FENRIR GREYBACK and five
other Death Eaters with wands pointed at them.
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