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Transcript:
The last narrative frame closes. We are back with Harry in the cell.
HARRY: I heard what you said. Don't try to tell me one thing and everyone else another. You just want me to prove you right.
GRANGER: Perhaps I was mistaken. It would not be the first time I have said or done something that I have come to regret. Tell me – why did you kill those Slytherin students?
HARRY: I won't tell.
We enter a narrative frame in which Granger describes past events.
PRESENT GRANGER: You left messages with the bodies of your other victims.
Two scenes show dead bodies labeled with bright magical writing written by Harry. One says "TORTURED MUGGLES FOR SPORT - TORTURERS WILL DIE". The other says "TRAPPED AND KILLED ELVES - SLAVERS WILL" and a past version of Harry is in the process of finishing the sentence.
PRESENT GRANGER: Why not with these?
PRESENT HARRY: I won't tell!
PRESENT GRANGER: Your former professors say that many of these students had bullied you in classes...
We see Harry in glass with two students casting nasty spells at Harry in class, while Professor Minerva McGonagall looks the other way and continues lecturing.
STUDENT 1: Densaugeo! Ha ha ha! { The incantation of a spell that makes the target's teeth grow unnaturally large. }
STUDENT 2: Ha ha! Langlock! { The incantation of a spell that makes the target's tounge stick to the roof of zir mouth. }
MCGONAGALL: The precise study of Transfiguration requires a departure from naive physical...
The narrative frame closes.
GRANGER: It seems natural to think–
HARRY {interrupting}: You think I killed them for revenge! I don't kill for revenge. I did it because I had to. And that's all I'm gonna say. Unless... { The "unless" fades into a color uncharacteristic of Harry's speech. }
HARRY: I heard what you said. Don't try to tell me one thing and everyone else another. You just want me to prove you right.
GRANGER: Perhaps I was mistaken. It would not be the first time I have said or done something that I have come to regret. Tell me – why did you kill those Slytherin students?
HARRY: I won't tell.
We enter a narrative frame in which Granger describes past events.
PRESENT GRANGER: You left messages with the bodies of your other victims.
Two scenes show dead bodies labeled with bright magical writing written by Harry. One says "TORTURED MUGGLES FOR SPORT - TORTURERS WILL DIE". The other says "TRAPPED AND KILLED ELVES - SLAVERS WILL" and a past version of Harry is in the process of finishing the sentence.
PRESENT GRANGER: Why not with these?
PRESENT HARRY: I won't tell!
PRESENT GRANGER: Your former professors say that many of these students had bullied you in classes...
We see Harry in glass with two students casting nasty spells at Harry in class, while Professor Minerva McGonagall looks the other way and continues lecturing.
STUDENT 1: Densaugeo! Ha ha ha! { The incantation of a spell that makes the target's teeth grow unnaturally large. }
STUDENT 2: Ha ha! Langlock! { The incantation of a spell that makes the target's tounge stick to the roof of zir mouth. }
MCGONAGALL: The precise study of Transfiguration requires a departure from naive physical...
The narrative frame closes.
GRANGER: It seems natural to think–
HARRY {interrupting}: You think I killed them for revenge! I don't kill for revenge. I did it because I had to. And that's all I'm gonna say. Unless... { The "unless" fades into a color uncharacteristic of Harry's speech. }
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For those of you who aren't such Harry Potter buffs that you remember what those spells do, I've written their effects down in the transcript (which you can view by clicking the button/link in the navigation bar).
Transcripts serve the purpose of making the story accessible to as many people as possible. The most obvious uses are for people who are vision-impaired and either can't see the image at all or can see the image but can't read the text in it. But that's not the only group who can benefit from transcripts; they are also helpful, for instance, to people who have trouble interpreting the language of comics that I'm using – e.g. which things happen in which timeframe, what is dialogue and what is thoughts, and so forth – due to unfamilarity with the medium, or due to cognitive differences, or due to me having drawn things in a confusing way (which I can't deny will happen sometimes). Given all these different possible uses, I try to make the transcript explain all the relevant information from the image.
Of course, since this is a work of fan fiction, it refers to an huge amount of stuff from the Harry Potter universe, and I can't reasonably explain all of them. I will generally try to explain things in the transcript if they're obscure enough that a fair chunk of Harry Potter readers won't know them, but not important enough that I need to explain them in the comic itself. I'm not trying to make the story entirely accessible to people who haven't read Harry Potter at all, but luckily, most stuff can be looked up on the Internet nowadays.