My Mother’s Dyin’ Day (filk)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 83825

The 11th song from Azkaboon, the musical

My Mother's Dyin' Day (PoA, Chap. 5, 7, 9 & 13)

To the tune of My Mother's Wedding Day, from Lerner and Loewe's 
Brigadoon

Hear a MIDI at:

http://www.hamienet.com/cat228.html


Dedicated to Ginger


THE SCENE: Before the grounds of Hogwarts. Enter HARRY and a CHORUS 
OF DEMENTORS

HARRY:
Now if ye wonder how my life has become such a mess
It started off the day I sat on the Hogwarts Express.
The train, it grounded to a halt, and through a darkened door
There came that foulest of creatures – a fiendish dementor

The `mentor it meant to march right in `n' mangle the man who was 
makin' away
And as the room temperatures plunged below freezing I glimpsed its 
hands decay
I fell like one who'd been struck dead, and right away inside my head
Lost voices reverberated with panic and dismay
I heard a woman's frightened screams, a cold high laugh, a flash of 
green

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS
We took you right back to the scene of your mother's dyin' day.

HARRY:
In Dark Arts Defenses when Remus walked in, we didn't know what to 
expect
But when he shot gum up the poltergeist's nose, we knew he'd prove 
high-tech
In his first lesson gainst Dark Arts, he introduced us to Boggarts
An icy knife struck deep my heart that I could not eject
But mayhap Lupin was a seer, he did not let me face this fear

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS
So at that time, you came not near your mother's dyin' day.

(HARRY'S wand summons his Patronus, which lingers for the remainder 
of the song)

HARRY:
When we're playin' Quidditch in the drivin' rain `gainst Cedric and 
Hufflepuff's team
Then all of a sudden the `mentors drift in and they like their sports 
extreme
Once more cold laughter and green light, I canoe put up any fight
I fell fifty feet in my flight `midst my mother's dreadful screams
The game and consciousness I lost, because my path with `mentors 
crossed

CHORUS OF DEMENTORS
As we replay the holocaust of your mother's dyin' day.

HARRY:
So I asked of Remus how best to repel the `mentors from out of my ken
And Lupin replied that he's just the right thing, the Expecto Patronum
And so I practiced with this spell, it proved as difficult as hell,
Oft to the floor I often fell when the boggart mimicked them.

The next time that I on my Quidditch broom flew, `gainst Ravenclaw 
and the fair Cho
I spied robed beings skulking about, so I hollered "Expecto!"
My patron flew out like a blast, the robed ones were scattered fast
The feeling was so unsurpassed when it proved to be Draco
It was a sight of greatest joy, the dim disgrace of dumb Malfoy

CHORUS:
That afterglow we shall destroy on your mother's dyin' day!

(The Chief Dementor zaps HARRY'S Patronus into smithereens. Exit 
CHORUS)

  -	CMC

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