FILK: I Heard the News on Halloween

[Lilac]

No: HPFGUIDX 87439

"I Heard the News on Halloween" 
to the tune of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"

Dedicated to Gail and CMC...long time no filk, eh?

The Scene: McGonagall and Dumbledore are conversing outside Number 
Four, Privet Drive, waiting for Hagrid to bring the newly orphaned 
Harry.


MCGONAGALL:
I heard the news on Halloween,
A Godric's Hollow murder scene. 
James, Lily died; the babe survived 
Whom they now call The Boy Who Lived.

The wizards show such carelessness -- 
Dedalus Diggle has no sense! 
He shooting sent the stars in Kent
To celebrate The Boy Who Lived 

It would not do to out us now
That You-Know-Who has lost his pow'rs.
Some Muggles keen just might have seen 
Those owl posts 'bout The Boy Who Lived. 

Please tell me, Albus Dumbledore
Is You-Know...all right, Voldemort...
He's truly gone from Wizardom? 
He could not kill The Boy Who Lived?

DUMBLEDORE:
Yes, it is true, both good and bad 
He could not kill that little lad
The wrong has failed, the good prevailed
We owe all to The Boy Who Lived.

(He thinks these next thoughts to himself)

Yet Voldemort's sealed his own fate
He is not dead; he hides in wait.
You'll have this scar forever more; 
He's marked you now, dear Boy Who Lived.