FILK: Gaze Into This Looking Glass

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 97223

My musical H.M.S. Dumbledore is proceeding apace - only one song to 
actually complete, although most of the others are still in need of 
some revision. Here's one song, just to let you know I haven't 
abandoned filking.

Gaze Into This Looking Glass (PS/SS, Chap. 12)

To the tune of Things Are Seldom What They Seem, from Gilbert's and 
Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore 

Text and MIDI at:

http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/pinafore/web_opera/pn14.html

Dedicated to Ginger

THE SCENE:  A hidden room: HARRY & RON before the Mirror of Erised

HARRY
Gaze into this looking glass
See them gathered there *en masse*
Mum and Dad and many others
A whole family tree of Potters			

On the wall
See them all.

RON			
What I see fills me with joy
I'm depicted as Head Boy
Holding house and Quidditch cup
Ev'ry brother I've shown up
	
The HB
Bighead me. 

HARRY
Should we head back to our dorm?
See approach a feline form
Filch would raise an awful storm
If Norris were to inform

HARRY & RON 
We hate that
Stupid cat

Ev'ry night I'm/he's here arriving
By the armor – by the armor
Here to see my/his kin reviving,
They're all charmers - they're all charmers

Gazing in a magic mirror
I/He see(s) his late Mum appear, her
Love and beauty draw me/him nearer
That's correct
We reflect. 

(Enter DUMBLEDORE)

DUMBLEDORE
What in the glass you're discerning
Is your sad heart's deepest yearning
Happy man who peered inside
Would take what he saw in stride

HARRY & RON
He would see 
Only he

DUMBLEDORE
You raised without love's support
Now finds parental escort
Ron sees himself as Head Boy
Just think what would greet Malfoy

HARRY & RON.				
Pleasant thought
That is not

DUMBLEDORE
Now my actions I must quicken
Find a hiding place to stick in
This mirror from view is stricken
Which should help the plot to thicken

HARRY			
One more look
Then it's took.

HARRY & RON
What we see in simulation
Isn't real – isn't real	
It's a magic presentation 
Of ideals – our ideals

ALL
Gazing in a magic mirror
Though its images grow clearer
Could exact a price much dearer

DUMBLEDORE
Do not mock:
I saw socks!

DUMBLEDORE (HARRY & RON)
Gazing in a magic mirror (Isn't real – isn't real)
Though its images grow clearer
Could exact a price much dearer (Of ideals – our ideals)

HARRY & RON
We won't mock: 
He saw socks!

    -	CMC

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