Voldemort and Valour (S1E23)

Voldemort and Valour is the twenty-third episode of the first season of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It aired on April 14, 2020.

## Synopsis

Albus and Scorpius have had their own side quest going on while everything has been happening at school. They’ve been using the Time Turner to go back in time to try and save someone that was lost: Cedric Diggory, a very key figure in the past. By traveling back in time, they were able to save Cedric Diggory, but in doing so, they doomed the future.

Albus calls out for Scorpius. In a different location, Scorpius Malfoy is holding the Time Turner. He looks around and calls for Albus.

There’s a very different feeling and a very different look in the Great Hall of Hogwarts. It’s a bit more hushed. The tables are organized much differently. There is a much greater Slytherin representation throughout the Great Hall. Slytherin has three long tables filled with students wearing green and silver. Just one table contains the remainder of the three houses. Dementors move about the halls, causing windows to freeze with ice frost. There are green banners hanging everywhere with a skull visage and a “V”. Prefects walk around the Great Hall, making sure that no one is calling problems. They’re a vigilant and oppressive group of people. Sitting in the headmistress position is a woman in all pink, a very modest-looking outfit, and a very frog-like face. Headmistress Dolores Umbridge announces that there should be no social gatherings after class except for pre-approved activities. She also reminds them to eat their vegetables. Headmistress Umbridge is backed by a group of scary-looking professors. The Ravenclaws, Gryffindors, and Hufflepuffs eat in silence. Most of the oppressive prefects hover about them, making sure that no trouble is caused. One of the prefects walks past Alexander Pinescrew. He looks a bit ragged, tired, and without a joyful spark. He’s subdued, quiet, and dull. The non-Slytherin houses have a bleak spread of food, unlike the Slytherin tables. Alex is sitting next to another Ravenclaw student, another half-blood, Gail Greytwig. Alex grabs what food he can, taking some broccoli even though he doesn’t really like it. Gail asks if he got his Potions homework done. Alex says yes. Gail says that she’s been having trouble because she is squeamish about killing a lizard. Alex notices some other students giggling, which sets his teeth on edge. Two girls start to approach his table. He recognizes them as Cornelia and Lilian. They tease Alex before sitting down to eat their dinner. Gail is glad that they didn’t talk to her. Sitting nearby Lilian and Cornelia is Masie. Masie noticed their teasing of Alex and thought it was kind of funny, but she goes back to her food. Next to Masie is Ashley Indigo, who starts disparaging the Ravenclaws. Ashley tells them that she saw Muggles being taken down to the basement in Hogwarts and that she heard that they were going to be burned there. Cornelia, Lilian, and Masie doubt her. Olive takes a seat nearby and also casts doubt, claiming her credibility due to the fact that her family is close to the Malfoys. Ashley stands her ground, further claiming that the Muggles were in chains and that she definitely saw it down by the common room. Olive challenges Ashley to show them. Ashley says she will, when they’re able to move about the castle. Olive takes her homework out while she eats. Masie isn’t really eating but just picking at her food. Cornelia asks Lilian if they should bring Missy and Prissy to dinner next time. Lilian says that they could bring them to Headmistress Umbridge for her to see them, but then she says that the smell of half-bloods might make them sick. Alex is able to hear their conversation. He spears another broccoli, brushes it off, and keeps eating. Headmistress Umbridge announces that dinner will be ending in 5 minutes. She reminds the students that there should be no social gatherings after dinner and that Mr. Filch and his cat, Mrs. Norris, will be watching. Scorpius Malfoy walks into the Great Hall. As soon as he does, a round of applause starts to go off and they start to chant, “Scorpion King!” Scorpius looks befuddled and recoils. He looks around and waves. A few girls run up to him and start to preen and posture. He looks really confused and backs up. Professor Snape walks up behind Alex and tells him and Gail that he expects them to do well in Potions class tomorrow. He walks to the teacher’s table and says, “For Voldemort and Valour!” before sitting down. Alex and Gail talk about the upcoming Potions class. Gail worries about suffering the same fate as Alfalfa Silverling, whose hand is scarred and a bit raw with “I will not tell lies” written on the back of his hand. Alex gives Gail studying tips. Gail doesn’t understand why they’re making a potion that would hurt people. Alex says she shouldn’t ask so many questions. Headmistress Umbridge announces the end of dinner. Everyone does the “For Voldemort and Valour” salute and declaration.

Scorpius Malfoy approaches Alex. A girl tries to keep his attention, but he claims that he’s going to berate a first year. He commands Alex to come with him. Scorpius claims that Alex’s salute was horrid. Alex apologizes. Scorpius whispers and asks Alex what’s going on and asks about Masie, Olive, Clementine, Rosalina, and Albus. Alex says he doesn’t know anyone by those names. Alex notices that Scorpius is not acting like the Scorpius Malfoy he’s heard about - the most popular student in school and the star Quidditch player, the seeker for the Slytherin Quidditch team. He also notices that Scorpius seems to care about him and that he seems very confused. Scorpius comments how he doesn’t understand why things would be different if Cedric lived. Alex recognizes the name Cedric as one of Voldemort’s Death Eaters. Alex also tells Scorpius that Voldemort is alive and Harry Potter is dead. Scorpius reels from this news, extremely distraught upon realizing that Albus wouldn’t exist. He asks if Alex knows a Rose Granger-Weasley. Alex says no. Scorpius realizes that there wouldn’t be a Lily or James either. Scorpius says he’ll find Alex again later and then pretends to rough him up a bit. Alex gives him tips on how to be the Scorpion King. Scorpius pushes Alex into Masie, who is with a group of Slytherins. Scorpius straightens his robes and walks over to a group of girls nearby. Masie watches Scorpius go.

Having finished Sunday dinner in the Great Hall, the Slytherins head to their common room. The password is “The Dark Lord sees all.” The common room is extremely posh and filled with house elves cleaning everything. Olive gets out some parchment and starts writing a letter to her father. Masie finds a corner that’s being cleaned by a house elf covered in a canvas sack cloth. She clears her throat to get his attention. He apologizes profusely. She says it’s okay and sits down on the floor. She pulls a book up between her and the house elf and looks around to see if anyone has seen her. The house elf looks confused, having expected to be beaten. Masie ignores him. He goes back to cleaning. Masie searches the room for Scorpius but doesn’t see him. She looks for his retinue and spots Frederick Logan laughing with a group of Slytherin Quidditch players. Masie keeps an ear open to listen to Olive with Cornelia and Lilian and Frederick and the group he’s with. Frederick and his group are talking about Quidditch broomsticks. In her notebook, Masie writes “Nimbus ?”. Olive is writing a letter to her father and not trying to hide it, although she’s thinking very carefully between each sentence. Masie looks at the letter and sees that it’s full of short stilted sentences of bland platitudes about classes and school and simple queries. In her notebook, Masie writes ”Olive - horned toad?” on the opposite page. Lilian starts getting bored. She walks over to Masie and tries to grab the book in her hands, but Masie is stronger. Lilian and Masie insult each other. Cornelia joins Lilian and insults Masie as well before they both walk away from her. Olive notices Masie watching her. She senses that Masie isn’t dangerous and realizes that engaging Masie in conversation would get Masie to stop eyeing her suspiciously. Olive asks Masie if she has anything to add to her letter to her father since she’s reading it so intently. Masie and Olive have a bit of an argument before Masie storms off to her room and slams the door. The Slytherin dormitories are expanded since there are so many Slytherin students, and each room has only two students. Masie’s half of the room is sparse since she brought only one personal item besides the required school supplies. Meanwhile, Masie’s roommate, Tressie Mallard, who is like a really excitable puppy that is extremely talkative and is like a mini Dolores Umbridge, has covered her half of the room in pink. Tressie greets Masie, and Masie grumpily replies before crawling into bed and pulling the covers over her head and tucking them under her feet. Masie takes out her wand and casts Lumos. Tressie complains that she always goes under the covers. She tries to lure Masie out by saying that she was going to show her something she found. Masie becomes curious, but Tressie says it’s too late. Masie stubbornly stays under the covers and goes through her notebook, which is full of notes. Every other page is blank, and every other page has notes on both sides, but the notes on the left page are very distinct from the notes on the right page. Masie reads through the pages that have notes on them and starts to write on the empty pages as she does so.

The Scorpion King enters the common room. Olive hops up and scrambles away in case he wants to walk through the area that she’s taking up. She also bows a little bit. Everyone cheers, and he waves. Masie hears this commotion and comes out of her room with her book and her wand still lit. Cornelia tells Olive that she should go talk to Scorpius. Olive approaches Scorpius and calls him “cousin”. Scorpius takes a moment to recognize her, although he thinks that she’s the Olive that he knows. Scorpius asks to have a private conversation with Olive. Lilian and Cornelia go over to where Olive was writing her letter. Lilian tries to steal Olive’s letter, but she accidentally pulls it too quickly and causes Olive’s bag to topple over. Everything in Olive’s bag spills out. Lilian slips a little and bumps into the table. Olive snatches her bag and follows Scorpius, planning to return to pick up the parchment and quills that fell out later. Lilian and Cornelia read Olive’s letter. Cornelia complains that Olive is so boring. Lilian is worried that she’ll get warts from the letter because it says that Olive has a horned toad (at home). She gives the letter to Cornelia, who takes it begrudgingly. Lilian leaves to wash her hands. Masie notices Olive walk off with Scorpius, and she also sees Lilian and Cornelia reading Olive’s letter. Cornelia notices Masie spying on them and calls her out, calling her “Matchstick.” Lilian returns from the bathroom. Cornelia and Lilian invite Masie to go with them to the basement to see if there are really Muggles there or not. Masie convinces them to eavesdrop on Olive and Scorpius instead.

The Ravenclaw common room is patrolled by Dementors and the password is waived for any teachers or prefects. Inside, it’s dark, drab, dusty, and old. Some of the upper tower dorm rooms have collapsed, but there are so few students that many of the rooms are no longer occupied. Alex is studying Potions in his dormitory room. When he takes his robe off, something falls out of his pocket. It’s a piece of parchment that has small, scratchy handwriting with potion ingredients for the Potion of Extreme Pain, the potion that they will be brewing in class soon. It also has simplified instructions and tips/advice (i.e. stir six times instead of five, use powdered thornroot instead of fresh salamander). Alex opens his Potions textbook and compares it to the note. He notes the small changes and recommendations in the note. He copies the note and puts it in his textbook and then he takes the original note, folds it up, and puts it back in his pocket. Alex continues studying, but he goes over the changes with the recipe in his head, trying to remember it. Gail knocks on his door and asks him about Potions. He says that he might have found another way, but Gail wants to do it by the textbook. Alex says that she doesn’t have to kill the salamander for this other way. Gail agrees to see this other way. Alex shows her. Afterward, they both get ready for the nightly spot check for contraband.

Meanwhile, Scorpius asks Olive if she’s familiar with anyone named Masie, Alex, Clementine, or Rosalina. Olive says Masie is in Slytherin but she doesn’t recognize any of the other names. Olive remembers hearing Headmistress Umbridge comment on how there’s no snitch that the Scorpion King cannot catch (referring to students that shouldn’t be at Hogwarts, in addition to the snitch in Quidditch). She misunderstands Scorpius and thinks he’s trying to say that Alex is secretly a Muggleborn. Scorpius seems off to her, so she asks him if he remembers her birthday party. He says yes and then leaves, but she notices that he does the Voldemort and Valour salute wrong. Olive leans in and tells him that she can trust her. He leans in conspiratorially and admits that he is not what he seems and that he’s scared and doesn’t belong here. Olive says neither does she, but they have to do what must be done and they have to play their part. Scorpius lets her know indirectly that Alex is trustworthy, but she has to be careful if she speaks with him. Olive straightens her tie and skirt before saying farewell to Scorpius and walking away. Masie manages to overhear part of the whispered part of their conversation where Scorpius says he doesn’t belong here and that this place is hell. Masie also picks up on the shift between the quiet compassion Olive shared with Scorpius and the mask that she puts back on when she straightens herself and loudly proclaims “For Voldemort and Valour!” Cornelia also notices the shift in Olive and Scorpius’s conversation and points it out to Lilian, concluding that perhaps Olive and Scorpius were not flirting. Lilian concludes that Olive is lying about something. She suggests pretending to be Olive’s friend to figure out what she’s doing. Cornelia agrees.

Scorpius walks past and gets bombarded by people. Olive notices that her letter is missing, so she sits down to write a new one. Lilian approaches Olive and gives her letter back. Olive invites Lilian to sit with her. Lilian sits and invites Cornelia to join. Lilian invites Masie to sit with them as well. Masie sits between Lilian and Cornelia and holds her book in front of her. Olive asks Lilian to tell her more about herself since they don’t know each other that well. Lilian says she grew up with Cornelia, and Cornelia says that Lilian’s father makes incredible furniture for the Dark Lord. Cornelia asks Olive about her family. Olive says that it’s just her and her dad. Cornelia asks what happened to her mum. Masie tells Cornelia that she doesn’t get to ask people that question. Cornelia apologizes. Olive says she doesn’t mind. They ask Olive what her father does. She says that he makes special magical items (including wands) for the Dark Lord and the Death Eaters. Masie says that Olive’s father is the one who made the wand that the Dark Lord decided to give to the next Prince. Olive says that she has to do some Potions homework. Cornelia interrupts and asks Masie about her family, but Masie does not give any information. Cornelia and Lilian get up to leave. Masie apologizes to Olive. Olive asks if Masie knows her father. Masie says no. Olive asks why she claimed to know her father. Masie says she wants to join Olive. Olive takes her literally and pretends not to understand the subtext in what Masie is saying. Masie backtracks, but Olive then invites her to her room to speak privately. Olive loudly says that she’ll help Masie with her Potions homework. Masie follows Olive to her room. Olive checks her room for her roommate. Olive reprimands Masie for speaking conspiratorially to her in public. Masie keeps pushing until Olive drops the mask fully and begins to cry. Masie gently hugs Olive. Olive says she wants to keep her family safe, and she does that by being quiet. She tells Masie that she should too. Masie confesses that she doesn’t have anything left to lose. Olive counters that she can’t help if she’s dead, so she should still keep quiet, but if she wants to talk with her, she can just say that she needs help with Potions. Masie comments that they’ll have to pretend to not like each other. Masie asks Olive about Scorpius. Olive says that something is off about him, but she’ll let Masie know when she figures it out. Masie says they can figure it out together. Their conversation is interrupted by Olive’s roommate, Talia Finney, walking in. Olive asks Masie if she can help her with anything else. Masie asks for help with Potions tomorrow, and Olive agrees. Masie bolts away.

The next day, Alex, Olive, Masie, Cornelia, and Lilian all happen to have Potions class together, brewing their Potion of Extreme Pain. Potions class is not taught by Professor Snape. Instead, Professor Snape teaches Defense against the Dark Arts. The potions professor, Professor Wispbottom, is a gangly, scruffy, and smelly man. Alex decides to brew his potion using the adjusted way. Professor Wispbottom notices that Alex’s salamander is missing. He inquires about it. Alex says the salamander is in his pocket. The professor asks to see it. Alex reaches into his pocket but discovers that his salamander is missing. The professor gives him detention with Professor Snape and drags him out of the classroom. Olive notices this and notes that Alex is the one Scorpius told her about.

Meanwhile, there are house elves in the classrooms, looking nervously at each other and eyeballing the potions. Cornelia and Lilian make fun of Alex once he and the professor are out of the classroom. Olive walks over to Alex’s cauldron to investigate. She taps her finger into the cauldron and tastes Alex’s potion. It numbs her tongue and sends electric pulses through her body, causing her nerves to feel like they’re on fire. Lilian asks if she needs to go to the hospital wing, but Olive refuses. Meanwhile, Professor Wispbottom brings Alex to Professor Snape for detention.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Wacksteven - Headmaster of Doom
* Helloitskolo - Masie Skyler (VaV Timeline)
* LuxieGames - Lilian Inkwood (VaV Timeline)
* Mirggles - Cornelia Hemlock (VaV Timeline)
* Negaoryx - Olive Everglade (VaV Timeline)
* Zcotticus - Alexander Pinescrew (VaV Timeline)

## Characters

* Masie Skyler (VaV Timeline)
* Lilian Inkwood (VaV Timeline)
* Cornelia Hemlock (VaV Timeline)
* Olive Everglade (VaV Timeline)
* Alexander Pinescrew (VaV Timeline)

## Relationships

* Masie: +1 Olive
* Lilian: +1 Olive
* Cornelia: +1 Lilian
* Olive: +1 Masie
* Alexander: -1 Lilian

## House Points

### Total

* Gryffindor: 370
* Hufflepuff: 220
* Ravenclaw: 255
* Slytherin: 80

\*Note: No House Points were rolled for this episode

## Downtime Moves

No Downtime Moves were rolled for this episode.

## Quotes

* Scorpius: …cousin’s gone…Lily must be gone as well. And James—that’s…no loss, really.

## Fun Facts

* Wack asked chat to spam “For Voldemort and Valour!” whenever they heard “Voldemort and Valour” or “Voldemort” during this episode.
* Due to the special nature of this Voldemort and Valour arc, they did not do Downtime Moves or House Points
* Wack had planned this arc from the beginning

## References

1. ↑ https://youtu.be/6gufxxHKZY0?list=PLreNnYE4Fc5wzfFJSeHEEzmruEAThLfdK&t=68
2. ↑ https://youtu.be/6gufxxHKZY0?list=PLreNnYE4Fc5wzfFJSeHEEzmruEAThLfdK&t=68
3. ↑ https://youtu.be/6gufxxHKZY0?t=2852
4. ↑ https://youtu.be/6gufxxHKZY0?list=PLreNnYE4Fc5wzfFJSeHEEzmruEAThLfdK&t=46
5. ↑ https://youtu.be/6gufxxHKZY0?t=10192
6. ↑ https://youtu.be/6gufxxHKZY0?t=10903