Third Task: It's A Maze (filk)

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No: HPFGUIDX 40753

Third Task: It's A Maze (GoF, Chap. 28 & 31)

(To the tune of It's A Maze, from the 1991 musical The Secret Garden)

Dedicated to Eileen (who introduced me to this music)

THE SCENE: The Quidditch field. The Champions, who have assembled to 
learn about the Third Task, notice the rows of hedges sprouting up 
everywhere.

CEDRIC:(indignantly, spoken) What've they done to it?
HARRY:(bending to examine the nearest one) They're hedges! 
BAGMAN: Hello there! Growing nicely, aren't they?  Give them a month 
and Hagrid'll have them twenty feet high.....  

(music)
Plant a hedge, we have asked
It will grow, as we sun it
Tell the champs, "Here's your task,
Toward the goal, you must run it."

Through our maze, the trophy, in a maze of snares 
Our champion must locate.
For our maze is guarded by fantastic beasts
Who will throw around their weight.

HARRY, CEDRIC, FLEUR & KRUM
For we four champs know how the dangers grow
How the dragons snap and the merfolk trap
So there's one more threat we've to master yet
And we then can homeward go

(Segue to the Transfiguration Class, where RON and HERMIONE help 
HARRY practice hexes)

TRIO
Freeze, freeze opponents with Impediment
Please, please, oh Four-Point Spell, North path present
Seize, seize, Reductor Curse, what blocks my/his course
Ease, ease with Shield Charm, strengthen its force

(The morning of the Third Task. Segue to the Hedge maze, now fully 
grown. HAGRID leads a herd of ferocious critters into the Maze)

HAGRID
Come along, skrewt, come crawl away, crawl along
Come along, spider stride home
Come along, sphinx, you've come a long way
You've riddled all day, come riddle us home

(HAGRID provides the critters with their Third-Task job descriptions) 

Mix their steps, make them fall
Block their path, throw toward wall 
Singe their hair, slash and burn
Get them lost, trophy spurn

(Segue to the Great Hall, where HARRY is pleasantly surprised by 
Molly and Bill Weasley unexpected visit to Hogwarts as his "family.")

MOLLY AND BILL
You'll amaze us, Harry, you'll amaze them all
When you take the field tonight

RON & HERMIONE
Tied with Ced, but now, pull ahead somehow,
And you'll fill us with delight 

(And now, with all Hogwarts in attendance, the Third Task begins!)

ALL
For the champs all know how the dangers grow
How the dragons snap and the merfolk trap
So there's one more threat we've/you've to master yet
And we then can homeward go
But win or lose
It's our/their final cruise
And we then shall homeward go!

(Harry and Cedric enter the maze, followed by Krum and Fleur)

  - CMC

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