Harry Potter: The Musical Extravaganza Plot Synopsis
Act One Synopsis
The year is 1981 and all of the Wizarding World is celebrating the demise of Voldemort and it’s all thanks to THE BOY WHO LIVED. Harry Potter grows up and eleven years after his parents’ deaths, not knowing who he is reflects: IF ONLY. When he accidentally does something to his cousin, Dudley that is no-doubtedly magic, Vernon denies (THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS) MAGIC. It is then that THE LETTERS FROM NO ONE begin to appear; his aunt and uncle make sure Harry is not allowed to read them. Upon his eleventh birthday, Hagrid, THE KEEPER OF THE KEYS arrives, and informs Harry that his mother and father were, in fact, a witch and a wizard. He spirits Harry away to Diagon Alley, in order to shop for his school things before school starts. Harry meets Mr. Ollivanders, who informs the two of his love for WANDS. Harry arrives at Hogwarts and Professor Dumbledore explains his philosophies in NITWIT, ODDMENT, BLUBBER AND TWEAK. Harry becomes fast friends with Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasely and reflects on his new-found fame and fortune: I BELONG. The following morning, Harry meets his professors, including THE POTIONS MASTER, who seems to hate Harry for no reason whatsoever. He also meets Draco Malfoy who sings a mocking THE BOY WHO LIVED (REPRISE). While discussing end-of-the-year exams with his Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Quirrel, to Harry’s horror, Quirrel reveals that Voldemort is on the other side of his head and forces Harry to take THE PHILOSOPHER’S STOEN from out of the Mirror of Erised. Harry pockets the stone, and Quirrel dies at his touch; Voldemort’s spirit disappears, and Dumbledore gives Harry a brief talk about THE PAST, but omits certain elements, hinting that Harry will know only when he is ready.
Harry enters his second year at Hogwarts and meets Ginny Weasley; Ron’s sister. Immediately taken with Harry, she reflects on her secret and forbidden love in THE BOY WHO LIVED (REPRISE). Students are being petrified, and Harry is immediately blamed by many students; egged on by Peeve’s constant OH POTTER, YOU ROTTER. Harry discovers that he can speak parstletongue (a gift associated with Voldemort) and is cited as ODDLY MAD by Ron and Hermione. Disaster strikes when Hermione herself is petrified and Ginny is taken into THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, where Harry meets Tom Marvolo Riddle who reveals himself to be THE HEIR OF SLYTHERIN. Harry destroys Tom’s diary (his way of bewitching Ginny) and destroys the basilisk that had been petrifying students. Hermione and the others reflect and Harry is forgiven in FINALLY.
His third year at Hogwarts begins and Harry learns that Sirius Black, THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN has escaped. Harry is suddenly attacked by a dementor who is guarding the school shortly after THE DEMENTORS’ RIVERDANCE. He is mocked by Malfoy, Snape and the Slytherins who now refer to him as WEAKLING. However, the new Defense-Against-the-Dark-Arts teacher helps Harry produce THE PATRONUS which wards dementors off. (I JUST CAN’T WAIT) TO TEACH DADA reflects Snape in secret that night. Harry learns that Sirius Black is trying to kill him, that the man is his godfather and is the reason his parents are dead. He tells Ron and Hermione and they comfort him; soon after, Professor Trelawney, the Divination teacher tells Harry THE PROPHECY; Voldemort’s servant will return to him and he will rise to power. Snape’s, Lupin’s and Sirius’s TRUE INTENTIONS are revealed and Harry stuns Snape in order to hear more. Ron learns that Scabbers, his rat, is Peter Pettigrew, and Animagi and the true betrayer of Harry’s parents: BACKSTABBER he reflects as the history of THE MARAUDERS is revealed. The dementors find the quintet and attack; Harry wards them off by producing a patronus and he and Hermione help Sirius to ESCAPE-- and the entire school is paranoid as ever.
During his fourth year at Hogwarts, THE TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT is held and Harry is selected as one of THE FOUR CHAMPIONS; the school is divided over this unexpected occurrence and Ron abandons Harry, tired of being overlooked: BLOODY BASTARD. THE TASKS are held, and Cedric and Harry are unexpectedly transported to a graveyard at the end of the third; Wormtail kills Cedric. To his horror, Harry watches as Voldemort is brought back to life and his followers, the Death Eaters return to his aid: FLESH, BLOOD AND BONE. After Harry is nearly killed dueling Voldemort, he manages to grab the portkey and disappear with Cedric’s corpse. Harry is deemed the winner of the tournament but grieves over the loss of Cedric along with the rest of the school as Dumbledore tries to inform them all that HE HAS RETURNED.
Act Two Synopsis
Grieving over the loss of Cedric and worrying over the return of Lord Voldemort, Harry is spending THE WORST SUMMER EVER with his aunt, uncle and cousin. Suddenly, and without warning, dementors appear on Privet Drive and try to suck out his and his cousin’s soul; Harry performs a Patronus and the dementors rush off: YOU SAVED ME, sings Dudley as an apology to Harry for his years of torment and bullying. The Dursleys are advised by Dumbledore himself to go into hiding in order to keep themselves safe now Voldemort’s returned; Harry realizes Petunia loved him and that he loves her and Dudley as well despite the ways they harmed him growing up: GOODBYE. Dumbledore whisks Harry away to 12 Grimmauld Place where Harry is reunited with Ron, Hermione and his godfather; he also meets Kreacher, a house-elf, who, angry that the house is being “torn apart by Mudbloods” relives the past in MASTER’S LOCKET. Harry learns of Sirius’s parentage in DARK TIMES before starting his fifth year at Hogwarts where he is introduced to LOONY LUNA LOVEGOOD, who is taunted by Peeves and various other students. The Gryffindors meet the new Defense-Against-the-Dark-Arts teacher, Dolores UMBRIDGE, who is immediately despised-- especially by Hermione and Harry. Harry attempts to explain to the class that Voldemort has returned but is told that these are RIDICULOUS LIES. Harry is given detention with Luna Lovegood and while Umbridge is looking the other way, explains her outlook on life: THE CRUMPLEHORNED SNORKBACK (AND OTHER MATTERS). Dumbledore is suddenly sacked and Umbridge assumes power: RIDICULOUS LIES (REPRISE). Malfoy and other Slytherin students are made to be part of THE INQUISITORIAL SQUAD and after Harry is caught trying to flee the school in order to find Sirius after having a vision of him being murdered, they are caught and Umbridge tries to force information out of Luna, Harry, Ginny, Ron, Neville and Hermione over the whereabouts of Dumbledore. Hermione breaks down and in COME WITH ME, leads Umbridge to Dumbledore’s “hiding-place,” deep within the forest. The six then flee to the Ministry of Magic, where they are ambushed by Death Eaters. Harry learns that the vision was a lie in order to lure Harry to the Ministry to make him get the Lost Prophecy; he smashes the thing and they begin to fight. Sirius arrives, along with other Professors at Hogwarts and Sirius is killed by Voldemort who then begins to fight Dumbledore; Harry mourns: IF ONLY (REPRISE). After quieting things down at the Ministry, Dumbledore takes the students back to Hogwarts and tells Harry of THE PAST (REPRISE)/THE PROPHECY (RREPRISE); telling Harry that neither can live while the other survives.
Harry enters his sixth year at Hogwarts and after overhearing Malfoy boasting to his friends believes him to be a Death Eater; he tells Ron and Hermione but they are unconvinced: ODDLY MAD (REPRISE). Snape assumes the post of Defense-Against-the-Dark-Arts teacher AT LAST and Harry receives top marks in his Potions class thanks to writing in his book from THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. Dumbledore takes Harry through memories in order to show him Voldemort’s past and asks him to retrieve a memory from Slughorn; Harry does so eventually by putting Slughorn through a guilt-trip: YOUR MOTHER. Harry and Dumbledore celebrate the information on HORCRUXES; Dumbledore reveals that two have been destroyed thus far; the diary and the ring. Harry once again overhears Snape and Malfoy and tells Hermione and Ron, who don’t believe him: I’m NOT A NUTTER, Harry insists, and he and Ginny begin dating at last deciding to LET US LOVE. Furious that it was Snape who told Voldemort of the Prophecy, Harry storms to Dumbledore’s office but forgets the matter at the chance to locate another Horcrux; he and Dumbledore leave and Harry forces Dumbledore to drink the potion on Dumbledore’s orders though hating it all the while: FORGIVE ME. Returning to Hogwarts, they find the Dark Mark over the tallest tower and Malfoy’s TRUE INTENTIONS (REPRISE) are revealed after Dumbledore hides Harry under his invisibility cloak. Snape performs Avada Kedavra, and as Dumbledore dies he laments: FORGIVE ME (REPRISE). Harry chases after Snape and learns (THE IDENTITY OF) THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. During Dumbledore’s funeral, he breaks up with Ginny, but she assures him that I CAN WAIT. The trio decide not to return to Hogwarts for their seventh and final year and decide to go with Harry to locate and destroy the remaining Horcruxes; he is unsure, but they decide that WHATEVER HAPPENS, they will remain by his side.
They return to 12 Grimmauld Place and Harry questions Kreacher over the whereabouts of the locket; they learn how it came to be there and where it is now during KREACHER’S TALE. They go to the Ministry of Magic and take it away from Umbridge and free the Muggles being sentenced; a dry-spell follows and Ron decides to abandon his friends: BLOODY BASTARD (REPRISE). MY LOVE, Hermione laments, confessing her true feelings for Ron as he leaves, she denies them to Harry as he learns the truth about Dumbledore’s past: YOU DECEIVED ME. Ron returns and successfully destroys the Horcrux; the trio head off to Xenophillius Lovegood’s, where they learn THE TALE OF THE THREE BROTHERS and of THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. Xenophillius reveals that Luna has been taken by the Death Eaters and that he is ready to hand them over to take her place. They escape just in time and find their way to Gringotts, where they destroy Hufflepuff’s cup, they are captured and taken to MALFOY MANOR where they free Luna and the other prisoners, who accompany them to Hogwarts just as Voldemort takes possession of THE ELDER WAND. Snape is revealed to be THE NEW HEADMASTER IN TOWN. After finding and destroying THE LOST DIADEM, Hermione and Ron at last kiss and decide that it’s time for OUR LOVE. Snape is killed by Voldemort and Snape reveals to Harry that he loved Lily in HER EYES. Harry then learns that the final Horcrux resides in him and he must die to kill Voldemort; he is upset and as he makes his way to Voldemort, discovers the resurrection stone: HE DECEIVED ME (REPRISE). Harry is killed by Voldemort in the forest and taken by Hagrid to be viewed by the others in (THE DEATH OF) HARRY POTTER. Neville then kills Nagini, Harry reveals himself to be alive and kills Voldemort. HE IS GONE the students and teachers celebrate as they bury the dead. NINETEEN YEARS LATER show Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione sending their own children off to Hogwarts for the year.