Filk: Tommy Riddle Chamber

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 92706

Song #5 from my CoS musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the 
Chamber (I'm using Dobby as my narrator, hence his uncanonical 
appearance here)

Tommy Riddle Chamber (CoS, Chap. 17) 

To the tune of Pretty Little Picture, from Sondheim's A Funny Thing 
Happened on the Way to the Forum 

Dedicated to Eustace Scrubb

A brief MIDI can be heard at:

http://www.bway2.com/tracks/forum/

THE SCENE: The Chamber of Secrets. HARRY discovers GINNY's 
whereabouts and learns the truth about TOM RIDDLE and the Heir of 
Slytherin.

DOBBY
In the Chamber stone pillars rise
Through an odd, greenish gloom
On the floor Ginny Weasley lies,
Tommy Riddle Chamber?
Whom  . .
Is the boy with the edges blurred
Leaning now on a shaft?
Harry can't get from Gin a word
Tommy tells him what has occurred

TOMMY
Your poor Ginny is nearly dead.

HARRY
And then he laughed,

TOMMY
My book she read 
And through my craft all the blame she's incurred
That lass will not live, through my lies she was lured.

HARRY & DOBBY
It's a Tommy Riddle Chamber,
Oh my! Tommy Riddle Chamber,

RIDDLE
Too true! Tommy Riddle Chamber
Which I, Tom Marvolo Riddle show to you!

DOBBY
Ginny transformed to Riddle's slave
Through that magical book
But it's Harry he truly craves
Tommy rid of Harry?
Look. . .

RIDDLE
Tell me, Harry, I need to know:
Twice you met the Dark Lord
You've small talent and seem quite slow
Yet you warded off his worst blow

HARRY 
Why do you care how I escaped?
He's afterwards
.

(RIDDLE forms the words Tom Marvolo Riddle with his wand, and begins 
to re-arrange the letters to spell I Am Lord Voldemort)

RIDDLE
Letters reshape
See me record from "Tom" and "Marvolo"
The "M" and the "L" and the "V" and the "O"
And you'll find I'm the fiend who's your favorite foe
.

DOBBY, RIDDLE & HARRY
It's the Dark Lord Voldy Chamber, the heir,
As a giant serpent appears

HARRY
Think I better say a quick prayer
Aid from Dumbledore soon appears!

RIDDLE
Don't worry
Keep talking

HARRY:
I think I
Hear Fawkes sing



DOBBY
In the Chamber a Phoenix flies
Brave and vibrant and pure,
With a song that all heroes prize
Can he ram the Chamber?
Sure, 

RIDDLE
>From the serpent your hero flees
Then the Phoenix, it soared.

DOBBY
Soon both basilisk eyes it seized
Bought the serpent down to its knees
Harry clamps the hat on his head
And finds a blade with rubies red
That's Godric's sword

RIDDLE
But my serpent rears
Its bite at the boy leaves him bound for the bier 

DOBBY & RIDDLE
Till the tone of a twinkling trickle-down tear . . .

HARRY (realizing that he's been healed by FAWKES)
Ahhh!!

DOBBY & FAWKES
All of Harry Potter's anguish will cease, 
And our Riddle villain recess,
When he sticks the fang by caprice
Into Riddle's Diary 

Yes! Yes!
Tommy Riddle now must cease

(After RIDDLE is dispatched, GINNY awakens)

HARRY, GINNY, DOBBY & FAWKES
Tommy Riddle now must cease

Tommy Riddle Chamber!

   -	CMC 

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