Cues No. 23 part 2 & 24

For this scene, we chose to include underscore again as if the source music ended after the first featured dance song. Cast A Christmas Spell plays in its music box arrangement during the winding down of the Yule Ball as people are now beginning to leave. It continues to the end of the conversation between Hermione, Ron, and Harry so as to not interrupt the dialogue. Once Hermione and Ron begin leaving the Great Hall, there is a slightly frustrated Hermione theme and a borderline melodramatic hint of a love theme for the two of them. This comes from the perspective of Hermione, whose 14-year-old perfect evening has just been spoiled by one of her friends. The young teenage perspective could only ever be given this slightly over-the-top musical representation, or the adolescent emotion would have been lost on the scene. In the long run, it’s not a huge deal, but in the moment, this is everything to Hermione. As she collapses on the stairs, her theme finishes.

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Neville and Ginny, as well as Hagrid and Maxime, are some of the last dancers left at the Yule Ball. A small variation on A Winter’s Spell plays before the scene transitions quickly to the top of the Hogwarts clock tower. Double Trouble plays during the castle tracking shot as the camera takes us to later that night up in Gryffindor tower.

The music halts once we see the inside of Harry’s window, and the three-note motif guides us over to where Harry is having a nightmare. It becomes more violent as Harry’s dream is revealed to the viewer. Strings begin swirling around, and the three-note motif dominates the shot. The dream takes us into the house seen at the beginning of the movie, and the three-note calms down and becomes more quietly ominous. The plotting motif quickly followed by the Death Eater theme and Pettigrew’s theme play in succession, matching the on-screen setting. Pettigrew’s theme continues as his conversation is being watched in the dream. It combines with the three-note as it intensifies, and culminates at the moment Harry woke up at the opening of the movie. Harry once again wakes up, this time with the musical aid of a far and distant celesta echoing the three-note one last time.