FILK: Riddle's Giant Basilisk

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No: HPFGUIDX 45905

Riddle's Giant Basilisk
A filk by Pippin
To the tune of Maxwell's Silver Hammer by The Beatles
For fellow Beatles filkers Gail and CMC

Ginny trustfully writing in her diary
'I feel so alone
Harry Potter never will  notice me-oh.'
Riddle cleverly playing on naivety
Took her for his own
Late nights all alone with the inkwell-oh oh.
But as she shared her  pitiful woes
He crept into her mind

Ssss! Ssss! Riddle's giant Basilisk
Hiding in its lair
Ssss! Ssss! Riddle's giant Basilisk
No one knows it's there

Back in school again Harry breaks a rule again
So he gets employed
Mailing testimonial pictures, oh oh
Cold voice in his ear, words that no one else can hear
Echo in the void
Ron does not perceive and he tells him so--
But on the way from Nick's Deathday Ball
There's writing  on the wall.

Ssss! Ssss! Riddle's giant basilisk
Left a message there
Ssss! Ssss! Riddle's giant basilisk
Enemies, beware!

Herm and 'Nelope
Searching in the library
Hermi gets a clue
She writes "pipes" on one of the pages, oo-oooh
Rushing through the corridor
Going to find Dumbledore, he'll know what to do
To depose the King of the Serpents, oo-ooh.
But though they check each bend in the mirror
A noise comes  from behind

Ssss! Ssss! Riddle's giant Basilisk 
In the looking glass
Ssss! Ssss! Riddle's giant Basilisk 
Petrified our lass.

Sliding down the sink
Riddle finally tips the wink
Harry gets annoyed
But he is by  Dumbledore's phoenix bouy-oy-oy-oyed
There's a fatal bite
But the phoenix puts him right
Riddle just forgot
Phoenix tears have powers of healing, oy-oy-oy-oy
And as he's getting ready to gloat
The diary's destroyed

Harry slew the  giant basilisk
Laid it in  the dust
And the fang of  Riddle's basilisk
through the diary thrust

He frees Dobby too!