FILK: The Horcrux-Hunting Song

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 139949

The Horcrux-Hunting Song (HBP, Chap. 23)

To the tune of The Hunting Song by Tom Lehrer

MIDI and text at:
http://members.aol.com/quentncree/lehrer/hunting.htm

Dedicated to the two game wardens, seven hunters and the pure-
bred Guernsey cow who died nearly 50 years ago in the making of the
original song

THE SCENE: The Headmaster's Office. Having witnessed Slughorn's
memory, DUMBLEDORE shares with Harry his speculations concerning
Voldemort's Horcruxes.

DUMBLEDORE:
His comeback was a bummer
So I started off the summer
On a hunt for some horcrux
As Lord Voldy ran amuck
But now I know where Voldemort did his soul-fragments stake:
Things from Founders, an old diary and a snake.

It became quite an enigma
For I truly couldn't figure
Out how Voldemort contrived
To ensure that he'd survive
But now I see with clarity things that were once opaque:
Things from Founders, an old diary and a snake.

My hand became quite blackened
Within the old Gaunt shack when
A Slytherin ring I had to defuse
It is one of age's defects, how it slows the reflex,
But now the horcruxes are lessened by twos!

There's just one way to subdue it
And the pair of us must do it
Ev'ry `crux we must uproot – then, when Voldy runs, we shoot!
So there's four more things that the two of us must take:
Cup and locket, stuff from Godric, and a long green gruesome snake.

   - CMC 

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