FILK: Lord Harry

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 88173

Lord Harry (OOP, Chap. 26)

To the tune of Rosemary, from Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in 
Business Without Even Trying

Sorry, No MIDI 

Dedicated to Constance Vigilance

THE SCENE: As HARRY falls asleep, he is immediately plunged into a 
dream/vision/Vulcan mind-meld of himself as The Dark Lord.  He 
discovers himself alone, in the robes of Voldemort, in what is 
obviously a five-star Dark Wizard palace. HARRY is simultaneously 
fascinated and repelled by his new incarnation.

The song opens with a majestic flourish, including the three-
note "Rosemary" (i.e., "Lord Harry") motif, which is recurs 
throughout (its appearances are indicated below)

HARRY:
Suddenly there's dark magic
And I cannot be named

(The Lord Harry motif rings out majestically from the orchestra)

Lord Harry! 

(The Lord Harry motif rings out)

Lord Harry!
There's a title of Dark Lord Wizard
That is now mine to claim

(The Lord Harry motif)

Lord Harry! 

(The Lord Harry motif. parital)

Lord Harry!
Resolution
Is not near
I sent Commandos
.

(The orchestra quotes several bars of Franz Liszt's Totentanz for 
Piano & Orchestra )*


..But get no spheres. 
As for this
Rookwood, my DE servant
Bid him give me acclaim

(The Lord Harry motif)

ROOKWOOD (enter, with great fear, falling immediately to his knees)
Lord Harry!

(The Lord Harry motif, softly)

Lord Harry!
There is terrible magic from the Harry-Who-
Can't-Be-Named!

(spoken) Master, I crave your pardon


HARRY (spoken):
Rookwood, something hideous thing has happened. Oh, don't you know 
it? Don't you know it?

(music)
Seemingly months were wasted
But it's not you I blame

(The Lord Harry motif, softly)

ROOKWOOD (spoken):
Avery doesn't know a thing, my Lord
..

(The Lord Harry motif, softly)

HARRY: (music)
Avery!
(spoken) Avery told me that Bode would be able to remove it.

ROOKWOOD (spoken):
Bode could never have taken it, Master
.

HARRY (spoken):
Rookwood, I shall need your help. I shall need all the information 
you can give me.

(The Lord Harry motif, with renewed amplification)

ROOKWOOD (spoken, with great relief):
You shall have it, Lord! You'll have it! You'll have it!

(music)
Shockingly there is mercy 
>From He-Who-Can't-Be-Named

(The Lord Harry motif)

Lord Harry!

(The Lord Harry motif)

HARRY:
Avery!
My intention
Is to curse
With a Crucio

The orchestra again quotes several bars of Franz Liszt's Totentanz*, 
as Avery fearfully enters, and is immediately Crucio'd by HARRY 

HARRY & ROOKWOOD (gazing contemptuously on Avery's tormented form):
He'll be made worse.

HARRY:
As for those
Pests and those lousy felons 
They'll get more of the same.

(The Lord Harry motif, elaborated and augmented)

HARRY/ROOKWOOD (exultantly):
Avery! Avery! / Lord Harry! Lord Harry!

(The Lord Harry motif, elaborated and augmented)

There is terrible magic from the Harry-Who-
Can't-Be-Named!

(The orchestra blazes to a triumphal climax. At the final chord, 
HARRY suddenly awakens back in Gryffindor, screams, and falls out of 
his bed)

HARRY (screaming): EEEWWWWWWWWW! 

RON: What?

   -	CMC

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* The original musical includes several bars from Edvard Grieg's 
Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 16, to somewhat hyperbolically 
italicize J. Pierpont's sudden realization of his love for the 
secretary Rosemary. To properly Dark Wizard-ize this section, I 
replaced Greig with another popular work from the 19th-Century 
repertoire for piano and orchestra, Franz Liszt's set of variations 
on the notorious Dies Irae theme titled Totentanz (Dance of Death).