- With Buckbeak in tow, Harry and Hermione run through the woods.
- They reach the Whomping Willow…and wait.
- As they wait, Harry says he saw someone by the lake who made the Dementors go away.
- Harry thinks it was his dad.
- Hermione gently reminds Harry that his dad is dead, as if he forgot.
- Past-Harry and gang emerge from the Willow.
- Cue werewolf fight, etc. from Scene 23. This is very literal déjà vu.
- That female howl we heard earlier? It's Hermione.
- Now past-Lupin is chasing future-Harry through the woods. So they run like they haven't run in, oh, about twenty minutes.
- They come face-to-snout with the werewolf, but Buckbeak intervenes.
- If this were rock paper scissors, Buckbeak is scissors and the werewolf his paper. Lupin retreats.
- Now Harry must rescue Sirius. He runs to the lake where the Dementors swirl about like scraps of kale in a juicer.
- Harry waits for his dad to appear and conjure the Patronus.
- Finally, he realizes it wasn't his dad. It was him.
- Harry conjures the brilliant Patronus that saves the day. Bravo, Harry.