FILK: "She Reads the Crystal Ball"

[Haggridd <jkusalavagemd@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52030

Here is another filk based on the musical "1776".  This is a parody 
of the song, "He Plays the Violin".

Author's Note:  This filk is dedicated to Eurydice, who knows a great 
musical when she sees one.

Haggridd (with apologies to Martha Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and 
John Adams)

                  She Reads the Crystal Ball

Scene:  Professor Trelawney's Classroom.  The place is suffused by 
crimson light, the fire is roaring in the hearth, and Lavender Brown 
is excitedly praising Sybill Trelawney's virtues to Parvati Patil.

          
Lavender Brown:  Oh she rarely reads the tea leaves;
                 In teacups pink or blue.
                 Where most other methods might not,
                 This one always comes through.
                 So sooth she will aver;
                 Sundry visions seen through her
                 Inner Eye.

                 She reads the crystal ball,
                 A sphere not too large or too small.
                 And it glows, oh, it glows,
                 'Cause she knows what she knows.
                             
                 Then she makes her prognostication
                 Proclaims to the Wizarding Nation.
                 "The future behold!"
                 O, O, O, O, Our fortunes are told.

Prof. Trelawney: I read the crystal ball,
                 And I hear the spirit world call.
                 From the orb I absorb
                 Into my Inner Eye
         
                 The most mystical of vibrations.
                 Then I make my divinations
                 Of what shall unfold. 
                 O, O, O, O, your fortunes are told.

                 But then there was the time;
                 There was neither reason or rhyme,
                 When I tried; prophesied
                 Without fail, 'bout Wormtail.

                 In spite of my old prediliction
                 I made an accurate prediction.
                 I really can See!
                 O, O, O, O, Crystal Ball is for me.

Lavender Brown:  She reads the Crystal Ball.
           
Parvati Patil:   She reads the Crystal Ball
        
Prof. Trelawney: I read the Crystal Ball.