Azkaboon: The Shrieking Shack Sequence (filks)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 83653

Here are the 8th 9th and 10th filks from the musical "Azkaboon" from 
Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon, which comprise the Shrieking Shack 
sequence

Dedicated to Grannybat

MIDIs can be heard at:

Hear a MIDI at:

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The Worst Day of Your Life (PoA, Chap 17-19)

To the tune of Love of My Life from Brigadoon

THE SCENE: Under the Whomping Willow, then to the Shrieking Shack. 
The TRIO learn the shocking truth about Sirius, Lupin & MWPP. 

HARRY
The fugitive Black was in pursuit
At last one night his long quest bore fruit.
I thought he'd betrayed James and his wife,
But it was then he changed my life.

One night 'neath the moon and the mean Willow tree
A cat and a dog launched their conspiracy
The cat chased the rat and then after them went Ron 
The dog it came a-chargin' and then all of them were gone 

I gave hunt with Herm and ran straight to the Shack
We came face to face with the infamous Black 
He seized both our wands with an Expelliarmus
And then calmly stated his intent to murder one of us

I vowed Black's efforts would be for naught
I lunged at the man, and how we fought!
I felt that in the ensuing strife
That one of us would lose his life 

HERMIONE
He burst through the doorway, Professor R.L.
I cried, "It is Black, the one you must corral!"
I thought we were safe, but then much to our unease
Lupin spoke soft to Sirius and gave him a big squeeze

I cried, "Tis a werewolf, a werewolf is he.
He's been helping Black so to murder Harry."
Lupin said my score was just 33 percent
For he would never harm Harry and that Black was innocent

He said, "Tis Scabbers that we must view
For he's no rat, he's Pete Pettigrew.
Tis he who gave to us all this strife
And now's a lower form of life."

LUPIN:
Oh, as a young laddie, by wolf I was bit
When I came to school, Dumble kept it secret
Three friends learned the truth, and to aid me in my plight
They became Animagi and we romped each waxing night.

Upon the Marauder's Map nicknames we put
Of Wormtail, Moody and Prongs and Padfoot.
No quartet ever explored more of Hogwarts' School
Yet I knew that I was guilty for such breaking of the rules

But then one night when I'm in the Shack
"I'll trick Snivellus," thought Mister Black.
But thanks to James, Snapey still survives
.

SNAPE (pulling off the invisibility cloak):

.To greet the worst day of your life!

Oh, such is my vengeance, my vengeance so sweet
With both Black and Lupin, my triumph's complete.
Your plot to kill Harry is simply not to be
When it comes to harming Harry, I want a monopoly. 

Don't ask me to fathom the lycanthrope mind
The best way to treat one is by a rope bind.
On the grounds of Hogwarts dementors glide about
I need only summon them, two souls will flicker out.

TRIO:
So we said, "Snapey, please lend an ear."
But he replied, "Just get outta here!"
And so for the first time in our lives
We teacher hit with a line drive

.!

(Snape is knocked unconscious by the TRIO's triple Expelliarmus)

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The Wizard I Would Kill (PoA, Chap. 19)

To the tune of The Heather on the Hill, from Lerner & Loewe's 
Brigadoon

THE SCENE: The Shrieking Shack. SIRIUS speaks in his own defense

SIRIUS:
Why have I been stalking to get him, out beyond the Azkaban isle?
For 12 years the Weasleys have pet him, as I've been held in durance 
vile
That's what I'd like to do: kill the Wizard Pettigrew.

I pledged that I'd be Secret-Keeper for James and for the lovely Lil
So they were safe from the Grim Reaper and the Wizard who would kill

But when I thought how best to sham them, I took what proved a poison 
pill
I trusted Peter -  how I'd damn him! – `gainst the Wizard who would 
kill

There can't be other deeds as rank and base
There can't be other rats more in disgrace
He must have been so proud when he betrayed
Thirty coins paid

And in the street when I faced Peter, he acted with an evil will
He framed me as a foul Death Eater, and a wizard who would kill
A wizard who would kill

LUPIN:
How could you know it was Wormtail, since rodents number in the Mil
How was that you could spurn jail for a Wizard who did kill?

SIRIUS:
Cornelius gave me a newspaper proving that Pettigrew lived still
I took a vow that I'd escape there and that Peter I would kill

Though there were `mentors who held me at bay
There's one unhappy thought they can't allay
The fact I'm innocent – though it caused pain
It kept me sane
.

BLACK & LUPIN
And now that we are reuniting, for Pettigrew `tis dead-endsville
He is the rat we'll be indicting and the wizard we will kill
The wizard we will kill.

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For You-Know-Who Go I (PoA, Chap. 19)

To the tune of There But For You Go I from Brigadoon

THE SCENE: His Animagic cover blown, PETER tries to finesse his way 
out of his predicament

PETER: 
You call me a spy, but I'm a man so soft and weak,
For years I have been hiding as a rat
Animagi abiding my own time
But my cover's blown and all my crimes I now must own

I saw a Lord who was bound to win
And though I felt some chagrin
I knew I must double-cross every ally
For You-Know-Who went I.

I see a boy looking hard at me,
An orphan granting mercy
>From Lupin and Black who both think I should die
For You-Know-Who went I

Angry men surround me, who will turn me in,
But chance may unbound me, via Remus Lupin
He is a man who was in such haste his potion he did not taste
I gave them the slip as I uttered this cry:
"For You-Know-Who go I!"

(As Lupin changes to a wolf, Peter transforms into a rat and flees)

  -	CMC

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