[BLACK SCREEN]

 

[MUSIC IN: SOLO TRUMPET PLAYING “TATOOINE SUNSET”, LONG AND WISTFUL]

 

[AS V.O. BEGINS, FADE UP FROM BLACK TO EXT. HOGWARTS, DAY, EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO ROOF, BODIES LAYING ON CASTLE GROUNDS]

 

                                                V.O.

                        The war was over…

 

[FADE TO CLOSE UP OF MOLLY WEASLEY, CRYING OVER PERCY’S BODY]

 

                                                V.O

 

                        The price had been paid…

 

[FLASH (I.E. CAMERA FLASH) CUT TO DRACO MALFOY’S BOOKING PHOTO

 

                                                V.O.

                        The last remnants have been broken, and new life begins…

 

[FADE TO INT. BURROW, DAY, UPSTAIRS BEDROOM. HEALER HANDS A BUNDLE TO RON]

 

                                                HEALER

                        Congratulations, Mr. Weasley, it’s a boy.

 

[FADE TO INT. BURROW, NIGHT, KITCHEN. GINNY HANDS PARCHMENT BACK TO HARRY, DISBELIEF ON HER FACE]

 

                                                HARRY

                        I was tired of it.

           

            [HARRY SHRUGS]

 

So, I quit.

 

[FADE TO EXT, BURROW, TREE BY RIVER. OVERHEAD SHOT SHOWING HARRY AND GINNY LAYING ON THE GRASS, SPEAKING TO ONE ANOTHER]

 

                                                HARRY

                        I was thinking maybe we could do dinner sometime?

 

[BEGIN FADE TO BLACK]

 

                                                V.O.

                        The one thing they didn’t expect…

 

[MUSIC FADES TO SILENCE]

 

                        …was to have to win the peace.

 

[CUT TO: DIAGON ALLY, EXT DAY. EXPLOSION OUTSIDE FONTESCUE’S. MUSIC IN: O FORTUNA]

 

                                                RON’S VOICE

                        They were taking him from Auror headquarters to Azkaban.

 

[CUT TO: DIAGON ALLEY, EXT, DAY. DRACO MALFOY, RUNNING FROM AURORS]

 

                        He escaped.

 

[CUT TO: HOGWARTS, INT., NIGHT. CLOSE UP, HARRY’S FACE, LYING IN BED, LOOKING SCARED AND NERVOUS]

 

                                                V.O.

                        From the creator of Defining Moments…

 

[CUT TO: HOGSMEADE, EXT, DAY. CLOSE UP, DRACO LAUGHING, RAISING WAND]

 

                                                HARRY’S VOICE

                        Hermione, duck!

 

[CUT TO: HOGSMEADE, EXT, DAY HARRY HOLDING A BLOODY SHOULDER]

 

                                                V.O.

                        In association with PhoenixSong.net…

 

[CUT TO: ST. MUNGO’S INT. DAY, HALLWAY. RON AND HERMIONE KISSING SOUNDLY.]

 

[CUT TO: ST. MUNGO’S, INT. DAY. HALLWAY. CLOSE UP GINNY’S FACE, EYES WIDE, STARTING AT SOMETHING.]

 

                                                GINNY

                        Remus!

 

[CUT TO: INT. HOGWARTS, NIGHT. HARRY’S SITTING ROOM. HARRY AND GINNY ARE ARGUING]

 

                                                HARRY

                        People who love me get killed, Ginny!

 

                                                GINNY

                        And what right do you have to tell me who I can and can not love?

 

[CUT TO: INT. MERLIN ACADEMY, DAY. GINNY’S CLASSROOM. DRACO IS TORTURING HER STUDENT AND LAUGHING. GINNY THROWS HER WAND DOWN.]

 

                                                V.O

                        With special benign ignorance from J.K. Rowling…

 

[CUT TO: INT. MINISTER OF MAGIC’S OFFICE, DAY. CLOSE UP OF RON, STRUGGLING TO MAINTAIN COMPOSURE]

 

                                                MINISTER WEASLEY’S VOICE

                        And who was taken, Auror Weasley?

 

                                                RON

[BARELY ABOVE WHISPER]

                        It was Ginny, Dad.

 

[CUT TO: INT. HOGWARTS DAY. DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS CLASSROOM. WIDE SHOT, HARRY, SEATED AT TEACHER’S DESK, ANGER EVIDENT ON HIS FACE, WANDLESS MAGIC CAUSING A WINDSTORM IN THE CLASSROOM]

 

                                                V.O.

                        Comes a new, edge of your seat thriller.

 

                                                HERMIONE’S VOICE

 

                        Harry! Harry! Can you hear me? Stop!

 

[CUT TO: EXT. RIDDLE HOUSE, DAY. DRACO STANDS IN DOORWAY TO HOUSE, WAND LEVELED AT GINNY’S THROAT. GINNY IS STRUGGLING. SIRENS AND HELICOPTERS CAN BE HEARD IN THE BACKGROUND]

 

                                                DRACO

                        What, Potter, you’d trade your life for the girl’s?

 

[CUT TO: EXT. RIDDLE HOUSE, DAY. CLOSE UP, HARRY’S FACE.]

 

                                                HARRY

                        That’s generally what love implies.

 

[CUT TO: EXT. RIDDLE HOUSE, DAY. CLOSE UP, GINNY STRUGGLING AGAINST DRACO]

 

                                                GINNY

[IN AGONY]

                        Harry, NO!

 

[CUT TO: TITLE SCREEN: Defining the Relationship. END MUSIC]

 

                                                V.O.

Defining the Relationship. Rated P.G-13. Coming Soon, to PhoenixSong.net.

 

[CUT TO: INT. WEASLEY’S WIZARD WHEEZES, DAY. TWO SHOT, FRED AND GEORGE.]

 

                                                FRED

                        Grow up? George my good man, what’s that?

 

                                                GEORGE

                        No idea good fellow, no idea.

 

[CUT TO: BLACK]

 

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