FILK: Fly

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 93470

Song # 7 from my CoS musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to 
the Chamber.

Fly (CoS, Chap. 5)

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

Dedicated to Constance Vigilance (celebrant of all four Founders)

Text and a brief excerpt here (you'll have to scroll down)

http://users.bestweb.net/~foosie/forum.htm

NOTE: Sondheim's "Free" in which the slave Pseudulus sings of the 
joys (and burdens) of freedom, might seem to make an ideal vehicle 
for Dobby. Actually, it is *so* ideal that it would have only been 
necessary to change a few words, which isn't really filking. Hence 
this version, presented for your reading – and hopefully singing – 
pleasure
..

THE SCENE: King's Cross. Inexplicably blocked from Station 9 and ¾  , 
RON & HARRY hit upon another way to get to Hogwarts. 

HARRY  (spoken):
Ron Weasley!

RON:
Yes, Harry?

HARRY:
Get me to school!

RON:
I have no plan
.

HARRY:
You could fly

RON:
I could what?

HARRY:
Fly!

RON (music):
Fly!
Oh, what a plan!
Oh, what a plan!

(spoken) Say it again
.

HARRY:
Fly!

RON:
(music) Although we're blocked
We have a scheme
That we could try. . .
And yet I never thought that I . . .

(spoken) Once more!

HARRY:
Fly!

RON:
(music) But my folks will not need the auto . . .
A teen should have the right to use magic. . .
In an emergency which this is so clearly. . .
Shall we try it?

We can take it to Hogwarts if we just climb aboard
On my father's Ford

HARRY:
Fly!

RON:
For years they'll all discuss how
Through the sky we soared
Shall we fly it?

HARRY:
Let us fly it!

RON:
Toward this Ford I'll use my wand to open up the trunk
Toss in all our junk


HARRY:
Fly!

RON:
Hear the engine spring to life with a resounding thunk
Can we fly it?

RON & HARRY
We can fly it!

RON:
Watch us fly in air with London spread out below
As we track the tracks by hook or crook
See the sky provide the greatest show
It bestows
Can you see the daring of this deed we undertook?
Can you see how Fred and George will give us jealous looks?
Can you see us on the cover of the British book?

HARRY:
Fly!

RON:
That's it!

HARRY:
Fly!

RON:
Yes!

HARRY:
Fly!

RON:
But it's too long. . .
I didn't plan . . .
The way it is,
We have no food,
Save for some toffee,
And we don't have a thing to drink
We're really hot and we're so thirsty
If on the train 
With Bertie's would we dine

So if we drink a little late,
How does it feel?

HARRY:
Dry!

RON:
Can we make it?

Can you hear the motor sputter as it gives a whine?
Will the motor now


HARRY:

.Fry?

RON:
>From up above the clouds we start a slow decline
I deplore it!

HARRY:
I'll ignore it.

RON:
We can see the sun that's setting and we're in the dark
Looking for landmarks..

HARRY:

Sigh!

RON:
Yikes,
Let's just keep our fingers crossed we find a place to park.
Do we see it?

RON & HARRY
Yes, we see it!

RON:
Now the castle of Hogwarts comes into our sight
As the Anglia makes steam and smoke 
Just a little ways, but oh, to end our long flight
We have just flown past the lake so we will not be soaked
But I see there is a chance that both of us may croak
For I think that I have overheard the engine choke.

HARRY
Can you stop it?

RON:
Oh, just drop it.

As the Anglia descends
The castle walls loom
But I'll try to steer though I can't see
Just a little ways and
Oh, we'll make a ka-boom

HARRY
Will we perish in a crash like Mom allegedly?

RON
Will they have to list us with traffic fatalities?
Will we be the victims of a Whomping road rage-y
.. 

HARRY:

.Tree!

RON:
Hit it!

HARRY:
Tree!

RON:
Curse it!

HARRY:
T - R - Double . . .

RON:
No, the wrong way . . .

HARRY:
T - R - E - E

BOTH
Tree!
    
(The Whomping Willow pounds away at RON, HARRY & the Anglia, until 
its engine revives and makes its escape)

    -	CMC

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