Every Day A Riddle Death (filk)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 55069

Every Day A Riddle Death (from PoA)

To the tune of Every Day a Little Death, from Sondheim's A Riddle – I 
mean,  A Little Night Music 

Dedicates to Suzanne Chiles

Hear a MIDI at:

http://www.broadwaymidi.com/shows/little_night_music.html

THE SCENE: Gryffindor Commons. HARRY ponders the "secondary gain" of 
his inability to stave off the dementors.

HARRY
Every day a Riddle death
Of my mother, of my dad
In the Hollow, in our dwelling
Full of sorrow and so sad
Every day a Riddle doom
Fogs my heart and fogs my head,
Every `mentor's rattling breath
(How it plucks them from their tomb!)
Brings a direct Riddle death.

He laughs coldly, mocks my mum
Says he'll slaughter me.
He could murder her right there,
Yet still she pleads.
He tells her to stand aside
(Has my dad already died?)
It is then I fall unconscious
(Did she die?)

I collapse into a faint 
When dementors near
Yet I half-want them beside me
To hear her 
It is stupid, it's insane
Longing for her voice again
This hallucinating business
I abjure!

Ah, well... 

(Unbeknownst to HARRY, his perfectly-formed PATRONUS seeps out of his 
wand, and accompanies him)

HARRY & (PATRONUS)
Every day a Riddle death
(Every day a Riddle death)
Of my mother, of my dad
(Oh her lips and her green eyes,)
In the Hollow, in our dwelling (Oh her murder, oh our losses)
Full of sorrow and so sad (So much pressure, her demise)
Every day a Potter cursed
(Every day poor Harry dies)
Fogs my heart and fogs my head (Voldy looks and Voldy lies.)
Every `mentor's rattling breath

BOTH:
And as awful as at first
Brings a direct Riddle death.

    -	CMC

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