For Sirius

[Michal]

No: HPFGUIDX 68298

So, I just watched Four Weddings and a Funeral, which I had never 
seen before. There's a great scene (the funeral scene) that made me 
tear up a bit, and also made me think of Sirius. It's not perfectly 
appropriate, as I wasn't in love with Sirius or anything. But it is, 
in fact, absolutely perfect *if* you subscribe to the theory that 
Lupin and Sirius were together.

And so, without further ado...

Funeral Blues
WH Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.


So there you go.
-Michal

P.S. I highly suggest you see FWaaF if you haven't, if only for that 
one scene. The reading that John Hannah gives of that poem is so 
beautiful and heartbreaking!

Arthur Weasley for Minister of Magic

I miss Sirius.