FILK: Chapter 16/Doomed to Die

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 182114

When I volunteered to summarize Chapter 16 some months back, SSSusan 
asked if I would provide a bonus filk at the end.  Well, here it is, 
from my DH musical Crux.

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/musical/crux.htm

The song is in two parts: the Youtube link below is for the second 
part only, "Nobody's Side" beginning with the line, "The Dark is now 
ascendant
."

Chapter 16/Doomed to Die  

To the tune of The American and Florence/Nobody's Side from the 
original version of Chess by Benny Anderson, Bjorn Ulvaeus & Tim Rice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x6506fRq2g  - 

(THE SCENE: The cemetery at Godric's Hollow, Christmas Eve.  HARRY & 
HERMIONE search for the tombs of James and Lily Potter.)

HERMIONE:
I think that it's now Christmas Eve
They'll be inside, your mum and dad.
There's some long-lost relation
Of Hannah Abbott here.
There's Kendra and her daughter now, 
The family of Dumbledore.

HARRY (gazing at the Dumbledore family plot):
He never told me, none of it, 
About his ancestry.
"And where your treasure lingers, then there too your heart shall 
be." 

HERMIONE:
Are you sure he never said

?

HARRY:
I would have come with Dumble, but
He wouldn't make the trip.

HERMIONE:
Look up there, they're dead ahead
!

(As HARRY & HERMIONE stand before the tomb of his parents, an 
IMAGINARY CHORUS sings inside HARRY'S head throughout his next 
stanza) 

IMAGINARY CHORUS
1981 – Lily Potter dying - 
1981 – James C. Potter dying – 
1981 – Both your parents dying - 

HARRY:
When my parents were killed
Part of me also died with them.
For a future was lost,
My chance for a normal childhood
In Godric's Hollow -  I
Might have grown up danger-free.
All I've known has been war
First with the Dursleys, then Voldy.

(HARRY notices the inscription upon his parents' tomb)

Is it some graffiti
Or a catchphrase of Death Eaters
Here on their marker,
"Destroy death, the last enemy." 

HERMIONE:
It means – there's a life after this

It's love that's destroying our enemy
.
After death, we'll live yet again!

(HARRY ignores HERMIONE as he falls into a private reverie of utter 
hopelessness)

HARRY:
The Dark is now ascendant
The Light is in retreat
Though I'm not tempted to switch sides
This icy day of Christmas
They're turning up the heat
And there is nowhere I can hide
Resistance turns to suicide
Why were those I loved doomed to die?

And Dumble gave no answers
Or any kind of plan
How I might best achieve our goals.
I'm wanting to continue
But I don't think I can
Keep digging deeper in this hole
To crack this locked-up Horcrux'd soul.

Every path leads straight to the grave
There are no days left to be saved
Those I love are all doomed to die
I'm not gonna outlive my youth
Rita Skeeter tells all the truth
Everything I love's doomed to die

The one I can't be naming
Won't cut me any slack
And if he caught me, who would care?
Why must it be my duty
To plot each new attack?
It is a burden I can't bear
And I give voice to my despair!

All of life is hollow and void
Death's a foe that can't be destroyed
Those I love are all doomed to die
Ev'ry wand I wave's gonna break
Dumbledore's support was a fake
Everything I love's doomed to die

(HARRY sinks to his knees in the snow, burying his face in his hands)

Ev'ry scar I wear burns with pain
Ev'ry day sees more victims slain
Those I love are all doomed to die
Don't know how to end or to start
Cannot find my treasure or heart
Everything I love's doomed to die

Ev'ry owl of mine gets AK'd
Ev'ry sword I need is mislaid
Those I love are all doomed to die
Mum and Dad are mere bones and dust
Nothing left in which I can trust
Everything I love's doomed to die

Don't know how to end or to start
Cannot find my treasure or heart
Those I love are all doomed to die
All of life is hollow and void
Death's a foe that can't be destroyed
Those I love are all doomed to die

..

(Fade-out, as HERMIONE leads HARRY tenderly away – but not she before 
magically produces a wreath that she lays upon the Potters' 
gravesite.)

   -	CMC

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