Daily Dialogue — March 25, 2015

VOLDEMORT: 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, Harry, the niceties must be observed. Dumbledore would not want you to forget your manners, now would he? I said bow!

Voldemort forces Harry to bow with magic.

VOLDEMORT: That’s better. And now…

Voldemort casts at Harry and he wriggles in pain.

VOLDEMORT: Atta boy, Harry. Your parents would be proud, especially your filthy muggle mother. I’m going to kill you, Harry 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 Harry to his feet, Harry hides.

VOLDEMORT: Don’t you turn your back on me, Harry Potter. I want you to look at me when I kill you, I want to see the lights leave your eyes.

Harry re-emerges to face Voldemort.

HARRY: Have it your way.

They both cast and their streams of magic meet. They both struggle.

VOLDEMORT: Do nothing. He is mine to finish. He’s mine!

Shapes form in the surrounding magical energy.

JAMES POTTER: (voice) Harry, when the connection is broken you must get to the port key. We can delay it for a moment to give you time but only a moment. Do you understand?
CEDRIC: (voice) Harry, take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my father.
LILY POTTER: (voice) Let go. Sweetheart you’re ready. Let go! Let go!

The connection breaks, Harry runs to Cedric’s body and summons the cup over to them. In an instant they vanish.

VOLDEMORT: No!

— Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), screenplay by Steve Kloves, novel by J.K. Rowling

The Daily Dialogue theme for next week: Ghost. Today’s suggestion by Will King.

Trivia: Mike Newell decided against the studio’s original idea of adapting the extremely long book into two separate films to be released several months apart, figuring that he could cut enough of the book’s bulky subplots to make a workable film. It was Alfonso Cuarón, the director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), who convinced him.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Will: “The ghosts of Harry’s parents have appeared before this instance, but this time they actively come to Harry’s defense as he engages in his first direct battle against Voldemort.”

If you have a suggestion for this week’s theme, please post in comments.