FILK: I Just Took His Life

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 174447

I Just Took His Life 

To the tune of You Must Meet My Wife from Sondheim's A Riddle Night – 
I mean, A Little Night Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFm_LSTXlaQ 

Dedicated to CV

THE SCENE: The Boy Who Lived and the Lord Who Died waltz their way 
through DH's final chapter. 

VOLDEMORT:
Of him I am rid, He-
Who-Lived lives no more,
I guess I'm a little giddy, 
Help me off the floor. 
At long last I have won, I'm done with this strife,
I just took his life.

My curse diabolic,
Narcissa confirms,
Makes Potter ex-metabolic, 
He's mere food for worms. 
I'll use a Crucio to show how he fell
I just took his life, my Bell.

One hundred times he has escaped me
But his funeral I found pleasant
What happiness `twill bring to Snapey
Oh, but wait, I'd forgotten, he's not in at present
.
The son of James Potter 
And Lily, his wife
'Twas so long ago I got her 
And him with my knife
Just watch me now and see how far I can go--
I just took his life, you know.

HARRY [aside]: Dear Narcissa, Draco's just longing to see you. In the 
castle.

VOLDEMORT:
He crumbles..

HARRY [aside]:
So you think.

VOLDEMORT:
Like Dumble...

HARRY [aside]:
Not quite.

VOLDEMORT:
My hexes have caused him to shrink --

HARRY [aside]:
This Dark Lord ain't bright.

VOLDEMORT:
My idiosyncratic
. 
 
HARRY [aside]:
Hor?

VOLDEMORT:
--crux are rife.
I just took his life.

HARRY (spoken, aside):
Yes, I'll trust. I'll really trust. Now--

VOLDEMORT:
Tell Hagrid
.

HARRY:
It's awesome
.

VOLDEMORT:

..Convey kid
.

HARRY:

.My ruse.

VOLDEMORT:

.To school. 

HARRY:
Though I am playing possum,
Voldy's still obtuse

VOLDEMORT:
I now reveal a---STOP!

HARRY:
A Harry inert.

VOLDEMORT:
Ha! Ha!

HARRY:
Now?

VOLDEMORT:
Flop!

HARRY:
He now speaks of me rude.

VOLDEMORT:
He's dirt.

HARRY:
Yet unhurt.  

VOLDEMORT:
The Chosen One, you see him vanquished, 
By my Killing Curse overpowered. 
Resistance to me has all been squished,
And so triumphs the Devil
 

HARRY (revealing himself to Voldemort):
But Neville's 
No coward!

VOLDEMORT:
You live on!

HARRY:
You're livid!

VOLDEMORT:
Fetch Bella!

HARRY:
She died.

VOLDEMORT:
You should have been slain at Privet. 
 
HARRY:
That wish I've defied.

VOLDEMORT:
Don't call me any names--

HARRY:
Like?

VOLDEMORT:
"Old Tommy R."  

HARRY:
I'll go that far.

VOLDEMORT:
I'll re-take your life.

HARRY:
But you are what you are
.

VOLDEMORT:
My certainties have turned to maybes
As you urge me on to repentance.
I'd rather be an ugly baby 
Than relinquish my power --

HARRY:
You've earned your death sentence!
You're monstrous!

VOLDEMORT:
I'm fright'ning!

HARRY:
Unfeeling!

VOLDEMORT:
Uncursed.
I'll strike as the tension's tightening--

HARRY:
No, I'll strike you first.

VOLDEMORT:
My fierce offense, my devastation--

HARRY:
You're cursed!

VOLDEMORT:
No!

HARRY:
Yes!

VOLDEMORT:
No!

HARRY:
Riddle!

VOLDEMORT:
I just lost my life.
 
HARRY:
We'll exult with drum and with fife. 

VOLDEMORT:
What went wrong?

HARRY:
You just lost your life.

VOLDEMORT/ HARRY:
Yes, I/you just. Yes, I/you just......

-  CMC

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