Padfoot's Last Stand - The Ballad of Sirius Black (filk)

[Susan Miller]

No: HPFGUIDX 81991

Padfoot's Last Stand - The Ballad Of Sirius Black

To the tune of Growltiger's Last Stand from Cats
Here is the midi: http://www.hamienet.com/midi2675.html.


The setting: A darkened stage, lights come up softly spotlighting
Lupin and Harry.


LUPIN:
Padfoot was a bravo dog who travelled with the three
Along with Prongs and Wormtail, there was Moony - that was me.
On full moon nights in Hogsmeade we gallumped around the land
Rejoicing in the title of 'Marauder Merry Band'!

But those were wicked days with murders coming by the score,
And everybody dreaded a Dark Mark above the door.
James and Lily Potter hid behind a magic screen,
But their poor lives both ended in a blinding flash of green.

Peter the betrayer, Padfoot understood at last.
But when he went to find him, Peter caused a mighty blast.
A dozen muggles died that day, and Peter up and ran.
When the verdict came for Padfoot, it was life in Azkaban!

Woe to Peter Pettigrew, a friendship that went wrong.
Woe to the ratimagus that would always tag along.
Woe the fam'ly pet who goes to Egypt for the views.
And woe to any rat who gets his photo in the news!

No walls could keep our Padfoot in when vengeance is in store.
He headed out to Hogwarts school to settle up the score.
The Minister of Magic dispatched quick upon the trail
A posse of Dementors to bring Padfoot back to jail.

HARRY: (after a 2 bar intro)
It was in the Shrieking Shack I learned what Padfoot was to me
My father's dearest buddy and no criminal was he.
Godfather and godson we were - a family of two.
But first to take this rat away was what we had to do.

(1 bar intro)
Just then the forest moonlight ignited werewolf's curse
I conjured a Patronus to deflect Dementor thirst.
With Dumbledore to help us, Padfoot never asked what-if,
He flew away to freedom on a stolen Hippogriff.

But what the cost of freedom when you're always on the run?
You can never smell a flower, never see a summer sun?
Only once he ventured outward in his doggie-face disguise
But was spotted thus by Malfoy as we offered our goodbyes.

So Sirius was trapped inside the Black ancestral home
His head a little off from spending too much time alone.
Reduced to doing housework with his Mum behind the drape
And listening to insults coming from Professor Snape.

LUPIN:
I should have seen the tension building up from all the stress.
I should have seen the increase in the Padfoot recklessness.
But when we heard that the Voldemort had out-manuevered Harry
Death Eaters could expect in us a lethal adversary.

(Spoken quickly over the sounds of battle):

Sirius and Moody, Tonks and Shacklebolt and Me
We got there just as Malfoy almost had the prophecy.
The Order battled fiercely raining spell on deadly spell
But none could equal Sirius, the man released from Hell.

HARRY:
(Sung over battle sounds)
Fourteen years of fury went along with each attack
A lifetime's worth of misery he now was giving back.
But the Order was outnumbered and the foe was quick and true.
First Moody was defeated and then Tonks was taken too.

LUPIN:
Bellatrix triumphant, she rushed back into the fray
For Padfoot it was blood feud - he would make his cousin pay.
She shot and missed, he spat a taunt, but then she shot once more.
A look of shock we saw as he fell backward through the door.

"Get him, save him!" Harry cried, "He's only just gone through!"
But when a man has crossed that way, there's nothing one can do.

(the lights come up to show Luna watching from nearby)
LUNA:
Harry, it is not so bad, don't look so sad and pale.
We'll see them all again, you see, the spirits of the veil. 

~ Constance Vigilance