Filk: Here's Looking Through You

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 46032

Here's Looking Through You

A paean to the Hogwarts ghosts, to the tune of "I'm Looking Through 
You," by (who else?) the Beatles

Hear a version at http://audio.cdbaby.com/ramb/megon2-03.ram, or 
better yet, go buy Rubber Soul--whassamatta you?

Dedicated to Caius Marcius, the filkers' Muse


HARRY, HERMIONE, and RON, at Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday Party, 
raise a glass to toast their ghostly host:

Here's looking through you
Tonight's your night
We'll tell Sir Patrick
That you're a fright
After half a millennium, you still look fab
Too bad your head wasn't left on the slab

(MYRTLE appears)

HERMIONE:

You're looking lovely

(sotto voce) 

Though your skin's not clear
You float above me
Grumbling in my ear

(to HARRY and RON:)

She's a member of the ungrateful dead
If only she'd been turned to stone instead!

(to PEEVES:)

Why, tell me why did you tell her my diss?
Now where am I to go to when I need to take a piss? 

(CUT TO CS chapter 11.  Nick is floating immobile and horizontal next 
to a petrified Justin)

HARRY:

I'm looking through you
Post Tom-attack 
You're in a stew, you
`re seriously black
We didn't know that one could croak
Twice in one lifetime and fill with smoke.

STUDENTS to HARRY:

Why are you at this school, for goodness sakes?
We should stay far away from anyone who talks to snakes 

We're looking through you
Suddenly aware:
Ol' You Know Who-oo
Knew you were the Heir
You were a hero, but now you've changed
We're looking through you, you're not the same

Harry, you've changed!  etc. and fade out


Amy Z
be gentle with me--it's my filk debut