Chapter 14

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GRAVEYARD
[Anna and Cedric have ported to a graveyard.]
Cedric: You ok?
Anna: Yeah, you?
Cedric: Where are we?
Anna: I've been here before.
Cedric: It's a portkey. Anna, the cup is a portkey.
Anna: I've been here before in a dream. Cedric, we have to get back to the cup! Now!
Everyone is worried. James and Lily are clinging to each other.
Cedric: What are you talking about? [Anna lets out a shout and holds her head, she is in pain.]
Cedric: What is it?
Anna: Get back to the cup! [We see Wormtail and Voldemort nearby.]
"No, no, no." Said Lily.
Cedric: Who are you? What do you want?
Voldemort: Kill the spare.
"Get out! Get out!" Yelled James.
[Wormtail casts a spell and kills Cedric.]
Anna: Cedric! [Cedric lays dead on the ground.]
"Noooo!" Yelled Lily with tears in her eyes. Everyone looked at young boy with pity and sadness, then glared at wormtail and Voldemort.
"I can't believe we considered him as friend." Said Remus, looking at Pettigrew disgusted.
[Wormtail pulls Anna closer, a status grabs hold of Anna and traps her.]
Voldemort: Do it, now! [Wormtail drops something into a cauldron, Anna watches on.]
"No, no. Please, run!" Said Sirius.
"She can't." Said Remus.
Wormtail: Bones of the father, unwillingly given. [A bone hovers in the air under Wormtail's control, he drops it into the cauldron.]
Wormtail: Flesh of the servent willingly sacrificed. [He takes a knife and slashes his arm over the cauldron.]
Wormtail: Blood of the enemy forcibly taken. [He takes the knife to Anna and cuts at her arm. Anna shouts.]
"I will bury him alive." Muttered Barty.
[Wormtail takes the knife over to the cauldron and lets the drops fall into it.]
Wormtail: The dark lord shall rise again. [The cauldron bursts into flame and a reformed Voldemort emerges.]
Everyone is scared.
Voldemort: My wand Wormtail. [Wormtail hands him the wand and bows deeply.]
Voldemort: Hold out your arm.
Wormtail: Master. Thank you master.
Marauders look at wormtail disgusted.
Voldemort: The other arm Wormtail.
[Wormtail looks concerned, but does it anyway. Voldemort sticks the wand into Wormtail's arm. The sky changes, others have been summoned.]
Voldemort: Welcome my friends. Thirty years it's been, and yet you stand before me as though it were only yesterday. I confess myself disappointed, not one of you tried to find me. [Voldemort begins slashing angrily at the hooded figures.]
Narcissa and Lucius share scared look for their daughter.
Voldemort: Not even you, Lucius.
Lucius: My lord. Had I detected any sign or even a whisper of your whereabouts.
Voldemort: There were signs my friend, and more than whispers.
Lucius: I assure you I never renounced the old ways. The face I have been obliged to present each day since your absence, that was my true mask.
"You're such a suck up." Said Sirius. Slytherins sent glare toward him.
Wormtail: I returned.
Voldemort: Out of fear, not loyalty. Still you have proved yourself useful these past few months Wormtail. [Voldemort grants Wormtail a new hand.]
Wormtail: Thank you master, thank you.
Voldemort: (To Cedric's corpse) Oh, such a handsome boy.
Everyone glared at Voldemort.
Anna: Don't touch him. [Anna struggles to get free.]
Voldemort: Anna! I'd almost forgotten you were here. Standing on the bones of my father. I'd introduce you but word has it you're almost as famous as me these days. The girl who lived. How lies have fed your legend Anna. Shall I reveal what really happened that night thirteen years ago? Shall I divulge how I truly lost my powers? It was love. You see when dear sweet Lily Potter gave her life for her only daughter she provided the ultimate protection.
James smiled at his girlfriend.
Voldemort: I could not touch you. It was old magic, something I should have forseen. But no matter, no matter. Things have changed, I can touch you now!
Anna: You know how that sounds when you say it to fourteen years old girl, right?
"Is she crazy?!" Yelled freaked out Evan.
[Death-eaters gap at her. Voldemort ignores her comment and puts his hand on Anna's head and she screams.]
Voldemort: Astonishing what a few drops of your blood will do eh Anna? Pick up your wand Potter. I said pick it up, get up. Get up! You've been taught how to duel I presume, yes? First we bow to each other. Come on now Anna the niceties must be observed, Dumbledore would not want you to forget your manners now, would he? I said bow! [Voldemort forces Anna to bow with magic.]
People glare at Voldemort again.
"Stey away from my daughter!" Yelled James and Lily.
Voldemort: That's better. And now... [Voldemort casts at Anna and she wriggles in pain.]
Lily cries for her daughter. James keeps glaring at Voldemort hatefully.
Voldemort: Atta girl, Anna, your parents would be proud. Especially your filthy mongrel mother.
"How dare you talk about my wife like that, you filthy bastard?!" Yelled James.
Voldemort: I'm going to kill you, Anna Potter, I'm going to destroy you. After tonight no one will ever again question my powers. After tonight if they speak of you they'll speak only of how you begged for death, and I being a merciful lord obliged. Get up. [Voldemort pulls Anna to her feet, Anna begins to move away.]
Everyone is tense.
Voldemort: Don't you turn your back on me, Anna Potter, I want you to look at me when I kill you, I want to see the lights leave your eyes. [Anna takes steps toward Voldemort.]
Anna: You keep pointing that wand at me and blabbering on how much you've been wanting to kill me. I'm begining to doubt your commitment... 
"Does she know meaning of word fear?!" Asked Lucius.
"What the point of sucking up to him, if he's gonna kill her anyway. This way she will, at least, annoy him." Said Barty.
"You won't do something like that!" Said Evan to Barty.
[They both cast and their streams of magic meet. They both struggle.]
Voldemort: Do nothing. She is mine to finish. She's mine!
Anna: I'm not anyone's property, you bald, hypocritical, ugly, no-nosed, lunatic bastard!
"My daughter is crazy!" Cried Lily, looking at her daughter with worry and fear for her. James looks like he's gonna pass out any minute. Sirius and Remus are grabbing each other and look scared for Anna.
[Death eaters gasp. Magic shapes form in the surrounding magical energy. We hear Dumbledore's voice.]
"Prongs?" Asked surprised Sirius. Everyone was the same.
Anna's dad: (voice) Anna, when the connection is broken you must get to the portkey. We can delay it for a moment to give you time but only a moment, do you understand?
"You are trying to help your daughter even in death." Said Remus. James smiled nervously.
Cedric: (voice) Anna take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my father.
People look at young boy sadly.
Anna's mother: (voice) Let go. Sweetheart, you're ready. Let go! Let go!
"You are great mother." Said James.
"Thank you." Said Lily.
[The connection breaks, Anna runs over to Cedric's body and summons the cup over to them. In an instant the port out. Voldemort looks angry.]
Voldemort: No!
Everyone sight out relief. Immature trio cheered.
ARENA
[Back at the arena Anna appears with Cedric's body. The crowd don't understand what has taken place and they all cheer, triumphant music starts to play. Anna weeps on Cedric's body. Then a pair of hands seized her roughly and turned her over.]
Dumbledore: Anna! Anna! [Anna opened her eyes. Albus Dumbledore was crouched over her. The dark shadows of a crowd of people pressed in around them, pushing nearer; Anna let go of the cup, but she clutched Cedric to her even more tightly.]
People look at the girl with pity.
"She shouldn't be experiencing all this pain." Cried Lily in James's arms.
[She raised her free hand and seized Dumbledore’s wrist, while Dumbledore’s face swam in and out of focus.]
Anna: (whispered) He's back. He’s back. Voldemort.
Fudge: What’s going on? What’s happened? (Whispered) My God - Diggory! Dumbledore - he’s dead! [The words were repeated, the shadowy figures pressing in on them gasped it to those around  them… and then others shouted it - screeched it - into the night –  “He’s dead!” “He’s dead!” “Cedric Diggory! Dead!” ]
Fudge: Anna, let go of him. [Then Dumbledore’s face, which was still blurred and misted, came closer.]
Dumbledore: Anna, you can’t help him now. It’s over. Let go.
Anna: He wanted me to bring him back. He wanted me to bring him back to his parents…
Lily starts to cry for her daughter and the young boy who had big future ahead of him.
Dumbledore: That’s right. Anna… just let go now… [Dumbledore bent down, and with extraordinary strength for a man so old and thin, raised Anna from the ground and set her on her feet. Anna swayed. The crowd around them jostled, fighting to get closer, pressing darkly in on him - “What’s happened?” “What’s wrong with her?” “Diggorys dead!”]
Fudge: She’ll need to go to the hospital wing! She’s ill, she’s injured – Dumbledore, Diggory’s parents, they’re here, they’re in the stands…
Mad-eye: I’ll take Anna, Dumbledore, I’ll take her -
Dumbledore: No, I would prefer-
Mad-eye: Dumbledore, Amos Diggorys running… he’s coming over… Don’t you think you should tell him - before he sees-? 
Dumbledore: Anna, stay here - [Girls were screaming, sobbing hysterically]
Mad-eye: It’s all right, I’ve got you… come on… hospital wing…
Anna: Dumbledore said stay.
Everyone looks at Mad-eye suspiciously.
Mad-eye: You need to lie down… Come on now… [Mad-eye was was half pulling, half carrying Anna through the frightened crowd.]
Mad-eye: What happened Anna?
Anna: Cup was a Portkey [They crossed the entrance hall.] Took me and Cedric to a graveyard… and Voldemort was there… Lord Voldemort…
Mad-eye: The Dark Lord was there? What happened then?
Anna: Killed Cedric… They killed Cedric…
Mad-eye: And then? [Along the corridor…] 
Anna: Made a potion… got his body back…
Mad-eye: The Dark Lord got his body back? He’s returned?
"Doesn't he sound excited?" Said Regulus. Narcissa and Barty nodded.
Anna: And the Death Eaters came… and then we dueled…
Mad-eye: You dueled with the Dark Lord?
Anna: Got away… my wand… did something… I saw my mum and dad… they came out of his wand…

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