Let Me This Task Get Through (filk)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 24021

Let Me This Task Get Through  (from GoF, Chap. 20)

(To the tune of That's All I Ask of You, from The Phantom of the 
Opera)

Dedicated to Steve Vander Ark

THE SCENE: A small tent outside an enclosure where the first 
Triwizards task is about to take place. The four champions await with 
fear and trembling.

FLEUR
The first task is dragons
Just see our wide-eyed fears

VICTOR
They're here, they'd love to fry us
All future life deny us. 

HARRY 
Let us work our magic
As we shake in our shoes
With pure terror beside us,
A crowd that could deride us

CEDRIC
Who cares whether I achieve a trophy
Or if with triumph my face is flushed

FLEUR
Please just tell me that I'll live tomorrow 
Promise it's not time to say "adieu" 

ALL
Let me this task get through



CEDRIC
Just give me a pebble
To change into a dog

HARRY
And when I cry Accio 
Please don't let me get K.O'd

VICTOR
All I want's survival
A world that I'm still in

CEDRIC
And if you see me pacing
It's `cause my heart is racing.

VICTOR: Some disaster I'm anticipating
HARRY: Some foe roots to see me get subdued
FLEUR: My anguish has remained unabating
CEDRIC: Please don't let me end up Short-Snout food 

ALL
Oh, please, let me this task get through



VICTOR: Hear the crowd as it roars in excitement
HARRY: Hear the dragons roar their reptile yell
FLEUR: Never till now have I known what sheer fright meant

ALL
Please do not let us forget our spells
Do not let our legs all turn to jell

(CEDRIC is summoned by Bagman's announcement to face the Swedish 
Short-Snout)

ALL
And most of all let no one ever tell
That totally apart today we fell

(Exit CEDRIC)

   - CMC