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Hi Hermione (Live)
03:09
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Hi Hermione
Any chance you’d be willing to tutor me
Because I am in dire need
Several professors are telling me I’m failing
I’m struggling with even the most basic charms and spells
I’ve got to figure this all out before my O.W.L.s
Please Hermione
Any chance you’d be willing to tutor me
I’ve seen you at the library
Studying with Ron and Harry
They’re cool but I don’t think they appreciate
All the things you do for them when they choose to procrastinate
I could never do that to you I’d respect your time
Shower you with gratitude
You deserve to be treated that way I’d hang on to every word you say
Hi Hermione
Any chance you’d meet me our next trip to Hogsmeade
We could get coffee
And chat about our fellow magical creatures needs
Please give me your two cents of all the good we need to do
While I give my two sickles to join S.P.E.W.
Please Hermione
Any chance you’d meet me our next trip to Hogsmeade
I’ve seen you promote your society
Without help from Ron or Harry
What kind of friends wouldn’t support you
They treat it like a joke calling it spew
Saying they’re happy is a lousy excuse
It’s programmed thinking from generations of abuse
Let’s meet up and knit a hat or two
And think up ways to build S.P.E.W.
Hi Hermione
Any chance you’re wanting to go out with me
Because I have been falling
For you since I first saw you at sorting
Now I’m struggling with even the most basic charms and spells
My mind can’t focus while it’s tangled up inside those gorgeous curls
Please Hermione
Let me know if you want to go out with me
Please Hermione
Any chance you’d be willing to tutor me
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2. |
Start Over (Live)
04:37
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She tore my thesis to pieces
In her comments she just handed back
Now I’m worried about my weekend
Because I’m seeing more red than black
Professor McGonagall
I’ve been working on my behavior
As a procrastinator
But it’s hard to change one’s nature
McGonagall
I actually find my mind works better
When under the stress of time pressure
I’m not trying to make an excuse and sure
I’d be happy to
Take your notes into consideration
Correct my spelling and punctuation
And clear up some of my thoughts on
Transfiguration
But please don’t make me start over
Even if I spent days on a rewrite
I wouldn’t be any closer
To the quality of writing you’re hoping to find
And I’m sure that you’ve got things you’d rather do
Then trudge again through my parchment lines
Please don’t make me start over
I’m begging you to let this one slide this time
Where do I even start?
I don’t remember any of this from class
I wish you gave points for effort
But I guess I still wouldn’t get much for that
There's been a lot on my mind
My best mate's been up against merpeople and a dragon
So this is worse than what I typically hand in and then
My essays normally get peer-reviewed
But the night before this was due
She was at the library with
I’d rather not say who
Please just don’t make me start over
Even if I spent days on a rewrite
I wouldn’t be any closer
To the quality of writing you’re hoping to find
And I’m sure that you’ve got things you’d rather do
Then trudge again through my parchment lines
Please don’t make me start over
I’m begging you to let this one slide
This time
This time
This time
This time
Wish I could start this year
Before this ship sailed into her life
Wish I would have told her
What’s really been on my mind
Please don’t make us start over
Please don’t make us start over
Please don’t make us start over
Please don’t make us start over
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3. |
Never Thought (Live)
02:47
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I never thought I’d be so scared to be under the sun
What if they knew what happens once a month
27 days of normal, and then the painful one
Getting ready for 7 years of shuns
But now I’m in the sorting hat
And there’s no turning back
Thanks Mom and Dad, thank you Dumbledore, thank you Gryffindors for all that you do
Getting to be here with you, makes up for the moon
A dog, a rat, a wolf, a stag, running through the trees
I guess we’re friends, we just really might be
Not so alone on full moon nights, with all of you with me
But always waiting for it all to be a dream
But school is going really good
With my brothers in the woods
Thank you James, thank you Sirius, thank you Peter for all that you do
Marauding out under the sun, makes up for the moon
But now I’m up in front of class
Teaching students to fight back
Thank you Ron, thanks Hermione, thank you Harry for all that you do
A class full of learning and fun, makes up
Thank you Ron, thanks Hermione, thank you Harry for all that you do
A class full of learning and fun, makes up for the moon
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I walk the streets of Hogsmeade
in this broken body
it's been almost a year since the triwizard cup
since I died in that tournament
I'm heading to Madame Puddifoot's
where I took Cho Chang last Valentine's
and I know no one can see me
I'm just going to pass the time
but there in the window I see her
sharing a table with Harry Potter
the one that was there the night that I died
how dare he sits in that chair while I'm freezing outside
This is going to be a lonely valentine's
I spent months studying
in the Hogwarts library
trying to find some kind of spell
that will let her see dead people
if only fairy tales existed
I'd run straight home
and grab my Tales of Beedle the Bard
and start my quest for the resurrection stone
Fred and George can I have some of your candy
make it the kind that gives never ending nose bleeds
it's not for me it's for my old pal Harry
just give me anything that will get him out of that seat
This is going to be a lonely valentine's there's no one to be mine
I'm here watching my Cho Chang as she... wait
she's looking towards me
I wave and I scream could she possibly see me
but no she turns back to her coffee with Harry
This is going to be a lonely valentine's
Let's take it back to the hangleton graveyard
my body cold on the ground
your spell was locked with Voldemort's
and I came out of your wand
And I asked you to take my body back to my dad
sadly I didn't think to say
hey Harry keep your hands off Cho Chang
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5. |
Houses Me (Live)
04:21
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Dumbledore couldn't have known when he brought me here
He wanted family blood so the charm would be stronger
In a muggle home where my childhood would be somewhat regular
Away from the magic world where I'm one of the most famous wizards
No one would have guessed with the death of James and Lily
Her sister given care of their baby
That she tucked him away under the stairs in the cupboard
An extra room upstairs, I'm stuck alone in the cupboard
Found on your porch and brought inside,
A scarred baby but not your own
Though #4 Privet Drive houses me,
It's not my home.
Petunia had no warning she'd be a carer for two
She doubled her baby load the night she heard the news
Now that I've had my own I can feel for her for what she was asked to do
But I also now know how it feels to have a toddler beaming up at you
How much did you hate James and Lily
That you couldn't bond with their baby
You just fed, clothed, and left him under the stairs in the cupboard
Does anybody care what's under the stairs in the cupboard
Found on your porch and brought inside,
A scarred baby but not your own
Though #4 Privet Drive houses me,
It's not my home.
When 13 and asked to find a memory
Strong enough to fight against my mother's dying scream
The first one able to conjure something
Was learning your cupboard no longer houses me
Houses me
I worry that all these magical things are nothing more than trauma-induced fantasies
Still tucked away under the stairs in the cupboard, dreaming up an escape from under the stairs in the cupboard
Anything to give my parents' death meaning, a reason for the suffering from the Dursleys
A piece of me's forever asleep in the cupboard, dreaming up an escape from under the stairs in the cupboard
Found on your porch and brought inside,
You've scarred me, deeper than my bolt
#4 Privet Drive is still haunting
Now that I've grown
Though #4 Privet Drive houses me
It's not my home.
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Your rat is a freaky little man
He's a death eater was part of a dark plan
He betrayed the parents of your best friend
Now they’re dead and he’s going to kill again
Yeah he’s going to kill again
Yes it’s true he started as my pet
But I never took to him not the way that you did
I think it’s sweet the way that you reacted
How your life had ended when you thought he was dead
Every boy needs a best friend
Yours just turned out to be a freaky little man
He’s done things that I’ll never understand
First he cut off his finger next he’ll cut off his hand
And how many nights did you spend with that murderer in your room
With nothing to do except to stare at you watch while you snooze
When you’re lazy we can always tell
Because the burrow starts to fill with that horrible smell
We get on to you for days and days
Before you finally clean out that full grown man’s cage
Is it cute when he eats from your hand
That freaky little man nibbling from your hand
And when it’s stormy I bet it’s nice
To have him to hold tight protect you through the night
And how many secrets did you whisper and keep
Just between you two
Of dreams you’d hope would come true of Hermione and you
Now he’s telling you know who
Scabbers is not a rat he’s a man
Which makes it weird that you used to play with him
Scabbers is not a rat he’s a man
And I bet he’s missing his old friend
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I’m sorry Harry Potter
I said things that were wrong
But I never bothered
To personally make my apologies
So I’m doing it now
No I won’t wait any longer
I’m sorry Harry Potter
I tainted your name, called you a liar
A liar who self-servingly told stories
But you spoke honestly
Even clear back to the goblet of fire
Thanks to Trelawney’s prophesy
You landed a target on your forehead
And your enemy
He wouldn’t sleep until you were long dead
Infant celebrity, the critics all watching
You battling the dark lord
On top of puberty
That’s lots to deal with as a teenager
And so I say I’m sorry
I’m sorry Harry Potter
Your Nimbus 2000 bit that whomper
That whomper crushed your broom into bits to toothpicks
But it’s okay because your firebolt is faster and stronger
I’m sorry Harry Potter
That Hedwig got caught in cross fire
Cross fire took your sanctuary only peace
When stuck with the Dursleys
But that won’t be the last time you see her
I’m sorry Harry Potter
That Voldy killed your mom and your father
Your father never got to raise his boy his joy
Before your home was destroyed
But I’m sure he’d be proud of his little Potter
Thanks to Trelawney’s prophesy
You landed a target on your forehead
And your enemy
He wouldn’t sleep until you were long dead
Infant celebrity, the critics all watching
You battling the dark lord
On top of puberty
That’s lots to deal with as a teenager
And so I say I’m sorry
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Percy and the Prefects Norman, Oklahoma
You didn't know Percy Weasley, Lucius Malfoy, and Remus Lupin were in a Wizard Rock band
together?
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Cedric's portrait had other dreams to pursue, so Percy found Lucius and Remus to complete the band.
Past Prefects:
Tom Riddle, Albus Dumbledore, Horace Slughorn
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