Cue No. 22

The opening of this cue reprises a little celesta motif from Harry and Hermione's scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2021). This is their first scene together in this film where they can just sit and talk like the old days. Some chords accompany this moment as the characters take the time to process the events of this film so far. 

A solo flute plays Hermione's Theme in a variation as she begins telling Harry about her parents, and how she used to visit these woods with them. She has all of these memories that her parents no longer can recall, and they would not even recognize their own daughter if they saw her on the street. Low strings accompany her sad story. The clarinet plays another little motif from the opening of the scene. At the end of her story, the oboe plays the last statement of her theme, descending sadly on top of heartbroken chords in the strings. 

When Hermione tells Harry they should just stay there away from the world to grow old, the Trio Theme plays in the woodwinds as a sort of chorale, but it is in two voices instead of three because of Ron's absence. A solo horn finishes the first half of the cue, and Hermione hands the book from Bathilda's house to Harry. 

The shivering tremolos of the viola section ascend while playing the Deathly Hallows Theme. Harry sees in the book that the man whose photo was in Bathilda's house is also in the book as well. Grindelwald is the man Harry saw in his vision, stealing from Gregorovitch. At that thought, Harry asks Hermione where his wand is. She hesitates before revealing to him the broken pieces of the wand he was given by Ollivander back on his eleventh birthday. The string section plays one last Wand of the Phoenix as an unexpected farewell. Harry, supressing his rage, or even too tired to be as angry as he would like, stands up and leaves. The opening motif concludes the cue.