Tonight (filk)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 16629

Tonight (GoF Chapter 37, sort of)

Dedicated to Eggplant

(To the tune of – duh! – Tonight from West Side Story)

(The Scene: Station Nine and Three-Quarters.  Hogwarts students 
return home from another harrowing year) 

HARRY
Tonight Tonight
My life becomes so trite
On Privet Drive tonight I'll be back
This can't be right,
Like the Prince said, "Cursèd spite!"
As a climax this does somewhat lack.
On me the fate of Hogwarts may hinge
Death-Eaters at my name cringe
My strength is at its height
So how absurd 
To summer with Dursleys in the `burbs
Tonight!

RON & HERMIONE
Tonight we'll get
At long last some respite
It's not easy to be Harry's friend
Tonight tonight
We'll go home and sleep tight
And relax until the summer's end
Tonight there is no Secret Chamber 
Or Goblet of Flame or
Time-turning at midnight
We're out of school
Tranquility commences its rule
Tonight!

(Seeing that HARRY is disconsolate, RON and HERMIONE comfort him)

RON
For now recoup
Take time off to regroup
In ten weeks we're once more abuzz

HERMIONE
We may not like
What's coming down the pike

ALL
But we three will meet it when it does

RON
We'll dwell with elements of danger

HERMIONE
With circumstances stranger

HARRY
Yet braced to battle Hell

ALL
What fate inflicts
Will ready us to all face Year Six!
Farewell! 

(Exit severally)

    - CMC