Cue No. 4

"Return to the Weasleys"

Cue No. 4 - Return to the Weasleys.mp4

Some very quick harmonic framework plays over Harry seeing Ginny up in her window as he approaches the Burrow. There is not much time for material regarding the two of them in this film, though it does present itself when appropriate: in terms of Harry and Ginny’s relationship, harmony and texture is used more than a committed melody. This resembles a sort of approach taken in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), where, though there is a very recognizable love theme, the secondary material heard in cues like "Anakin and Padme" or "The Meadow Picnic" serves as a quieter, more intimate aural experience.

Ginny comes downstairs and sees all of Harry’s things waiting in the living room. The original reveal of the Burrow from Chamber of Secrets is reprised here in order to recall the magic and excitement. It also serves to show that, after all these years, the feeling of family he has at the Weasleys has never changed. This makes it even more appropriate that the Family Theme is what plays over the original version, and now over this as well.

While Ginny inquires as to Harry’s whereabouts, we see Molly, Ron, and Hermione for the first time in the film. Ginny gives up asking, and a soft solo horn plays a little bit of Hedwig’s Theme before Harry officially comes into the house. The Family Theme gets a warm statement, also reprising previous material, when Ginny rounds the corner and goes to hug him.

The Weasley theme then enters in its purest form over Molly welcoming her pseudo-eighth child back into her home. At the tail end of it, Ron and Hermione have a background moment of romantic tension, which calls their theme briefly to the front of the texture. It fades out alongside a cut to the trio upstairs. Harry is home again.