Brand-New Beginning (filk)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 81003

Brand-New Beginning (GoF, Chap. 37)

The final A!Kedavra filk to the tune of Beautiful Morning (reprise), 
from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

Dedicated to all HP filk mavens everywhere


THE SCENE: Platform 9.75. HARRY, GEORGE & FRED emerge from the 
Hogwarts Express. The platform is otherwise deserted.

HARRY:
Oh, it's a brand-new beginning
It's the dawn of a new day 
I've won a thousand galleons
I'm going to give them away

I want new jokes and pranks for the fifth book
I want new jokes and pranks for the fifth book
I'm facing Delores and Voldemort, too
So I'll be in need of a good gag or two

ALL THREE:
Oh, it's a brand-new beginning
The onset of many a Wheeze
Gryffindor will be delighted
Hermy will be none too pleased

GEORGE & FRED:
There's Extendible Ears in the fifth book
There'll be Portable Swamps in the fifth book
A Skiving Snackbox that will help make you sick
And we'll make our grand exit `midst pyrotechnics

ALL THREE:
It's all to be in our fifth book
Full of both sorrow and cheer.
Readers, there's only one problem
You'll have to wait for three years
You'll have to wait for three years!

(Several seconds of silence)

GEORGE (spoken): Is this it?

HARRY: At the end of a musical, isn't there usually something more – 
uh - ceremonial?

FRED: Yeah, like a curtain falling, applause, bouquets of roses for 
the stars
.

(Enter SIRIUS BLACK and Buckbeak, the former distributing sheet music)

SIRIUS: Yes, you're absolutely right, lads, but yours wasn't the true 
finale. We decided that something more grandiose was in order, so 
we've shamelessly ripped off an idea used by Veresna Ussep in her CoS 
musical

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/soundofmagic.htm#JKR

 
..OK, take it from the top
.

J!K. Rowling (to the title tune of Oklahoma! – reprise)

(The entire cast of GoF swarms out of the Hogwarts Express, right 
down to the Skrewts, dragons, and the Sphinx. Setting aside their 
differences for a moment, Slytherins join hands with Gryffindors, 
Death Eaters unite with OOP members to pay tribute to Rowling)


SNAPE (music):
Gonna bottle fame up, glory be a-brewin'

HERMIONE
Pages by the hundreds oft to be reviewin'

DUMBLEDORE & McGONAGALL
Architect of Hogwarts who gives us employ

IRISH & BULGARIAN QUIDDITCH TEAM & ALL ATTENDEES OF THE QWC
Author of the game that brings such joy

VOLDEMORT & DEATH EATERS
Plen'y of turns and plen'y of twists!

GRYFFINDORS
Plen'y of shocks and plen'y of ships!.

ALL
J!K. Rowling, when your quill comes sweepin' down the page
As your epic quest meets ev'ry test
Of a work that will transcend the age!
J!K. Rowling, we live due to your creative spark
Ranging from the heights of sheer delight
To the bleakest depths of evil's dark.
 
We know we are Pantheon-bound 
And for centuries we'll be renowned!
And when we say 
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine, J!K. Rowling
J!K. Rowling, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven!
J!K. Rowling!
Yeeow!

(Applause. Bouquets of roses presented to all the stars. Curtain 
falls)

    -	CMC

HARRY POTTER FILKS 
http://home.att.net/~coriolan/hpfilks.htm 

The complete musical will be posted on HPF when I do the next update. 
The first six songs (first 6 to be written, not first six 
narratively) are on the New Filks page on the link above.