Secret Powers Held in Thrall (filk)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 20439

Secret Powers Held in Thrall (from CoS, Chap. 11)

(To the tune of Flowers on the Wall)

Dedicated to Catherine

THE SCENE: The Great Hall, where Professor Lockhart's dueling
club is holding its premiere meeting)

HARRY
We had a need, Lockhart decreed
To learn how wizards duel
But Snape outwit that hopeless git
He's such an utter fool
Some were afraid when Malfoy made
A snake poised to attack
But with a hiss I said, "Stop this!"  
And it kept itself back

CHORUS OF HUFFLEPUFF STUDENTS (fearfully)
Secret powers held in thrall
Justin Fletchley saw it all
Harry Potter wants to slay
Anyone who's in his way
With his Parseltongue phraseology, he foments snakes
And Slytherin's heir is now wide-awake 

(HERMIONE and RON pull HARRY aside)

RON (to HARRY)
It's appropos we did not know
With snakes you can converse
Now don't get mad, but this is bad
It couldn't be much worse

HERMIONE (to HARRY)
Lord Salazar, whose somber star
Still glitters in our school,
Won foremost fame when with the name
Of Parselmouth he ruled

HARRY (to himself)
Secret powers I've in thrall
I hear voices through the wall
With serpents I sometimes chat
What about the Sorting Hat?
Last year it told me that I should be in Slytherin 
Looks like I'm the Heir – I just can't win!

HUFFLEPUFF STUDENTS
We greatly fear if we go near
That Potter guy again
We might witness how all go hiss
In Chambers' Secret Den

HARRY
But I'm not going to harm you!

HUFFLEPUFF STUDENTS
                              Don't believe what he just said!
He's the heir of Slytherin, that's the word from George and Fred.

(Enter GEORGE & FRED) 

GEORGE AND FRED (tongues firmly in cheek)
Secret powers he's in thrall
Harry craves to kill us all
He will start his brand-new reign
Forcing folks to scream with pain
Look out, `cause we've some Serious Evil comin' through
He must renamed as You-Know-Who-Two
He must renamed as You-Know-Who-Two






(Exit severally, with GEORGE and FRED escorting HARRY while laughing 
uproariously)

 - CMC