Memories (a Lockhart filk)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 19617

Memories (from CoS, Chap. 16)

(To the tune of Memory, from Lloyd Webber' Cats)

Dedicated to Amber

(THE SCENE: The tunnel to the Chamber of Secrets. LOCKHART reveals to 
Harry and Ron the secret of his success). 

LOCKHART:
Memories, here's the way that I moonlight
I oft steal them from wizards 
Far more gifted than me
They've great talent, but don't know how to market themselves
So I swipe their memories

Banished banshees, gadding ghouls, 
Werewolves besieging a village
I have done nothing of what I have claimed to 
It's the result of pillage

Spotlight, I rejoice in your beacon
When I've written a new book
And it's time to cash in
When the crowd comes, "The Prophet" sends a critic or two 
Then more new hype will begin 

(To Harry and Ron)

Dead right, I can't let you recall
What I've been parading
I raise Ron's wand to erase your psyches

(Ron's spellotaped wand explodes in a shower of sparks)

But – boom! – my mind's now fading

Who's me? It's so suddenly left me!	
All astray is my memory
Was I magical once?
As your professor, I really can't have been any good
For I must have been a dunce
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 - CMC