1. At The House Of the Gaunts (At The End of the Day)

OGDEN: At the house of the Gaunts, life is almost inhuman.
As if anyone wants a snake nailed to the door.
They hate Muggles, but they’re poor
Cold and hungry, their life’s unforgiving
Look at this—standing inside, you can’t see the floor.
And they call life here living?

At the house of the Gaunts, the strong smell isn’t cumin
And if I don’t clean things up now, nobody will.
And I really can’t believe
They aren’t already broke in the poorhouse
‘Cause the winter’s coming on fast, ready to kill.
They’ll be dead as a dormouse.

At the house of the Gaunts, there’s a boy who’s named Morfin.
He’s a typical basket case waiting to snap.
Like a shark washed up on sand
Like a storm that’ll break any second.
He cursed Muggles outside his land
There’s a reckoning gonna be reckoned
And a visit I have to pay
To the Gaunts’ house today.

MORFIN: At the House of the Gaunts, folks like you are not welcome.
Though you can’t understand me—I hiss like a snake.
I won’t let you in our home
Get out now, for Salazar’s sake.
I can kill you here and now
Make no mistake.

MARVOLO: Ah, you’ve met my son, Morfin.

OGDEN: Mr. Gaunt, I have come here for Morfin today
For it seems that your son cursed a young Muggle man.

MARVOLO: Do you think I’m a man who’ll give you your way?
Let a Mudblood like you chuck him in Azkaban?
He’ll do worse than break your nose.
Mr. Ogden, just use your head.
If you aren’t looking out, anything goes
Which means you’ll end up dead.

At the House of the Gaunts, we are nothing but purebloods.
Bet your family tree hardly has any roots!
We’re descendents of Slytherin’s
So who cares if life ain’t stable?
We’ve got pride etched in our skins
Though we live off of crumbs on the table.
Nobody ever taunts
Any one of the Gaunts!

MORFIN: (To Merope)
And what have we here, little useless Squib sister?
Come, Merope, let’s have all the news!
Ooh, Merope, you’re still watching that Mudblood
And his girlfriend, wishing you were in her shoes.

MEROPE: Go and leave me alone,
It is none of your business!
Better than messing ‘round
Nailing snakes to the door!
You flirt with them all day
Which I think is just gross.
Morfin, just go away
Don’t you say a word more!

(Marvolo starts screaming at Merope)

OGDEN: How can you do that to the girl?
What is this fighting all about?
This is your daughter, sir, treat her like it!
Now, come on people, settle down,
I am from the Ministry
And I may have to write this down
I’m going to sort this business out
I’ll be as patient as I can.
Why won’t you let her watch that man.

MORFIN: At the House of the Gaunts, she’s a filthy blood traitor.
He’s the Muggle whose father owns this bloody town.
He rides past here every day
And she watches him through the front window
You can bet she keeps out an eye
Spying around.
And Papa doesn’t like it.

MEROPE: Yes, it’s true, there’s a man
And the man is a Muggle.
And it’s true my eyes look two ways and my hair’s flat.
And it’s true that I wish he would still notice me
And that we’d share our lives,
What’s the matter with that?

MARVOLO: Of the House of the Gaunts, you’re no longer a member
And there’s trouble for all when there’s trouble for one.
You’ll turn our bloodline into scum
And our bloodlines all that we’ve got now
You’re a dirty little bum
And I’m not gonna let this pass, not now
If you love him, you can’t
Be considered a Gaunt.

I might have known the dog would bite
The hand that fed it all these years
I might have guessed your little secret.
Ah yes, the worthless Merope
Who floats around dreamy and dopey—
You’d be the cause, I had no doubt
Of any trouble hereabout.

MEROPE: Don’t you come near me now, Papa!

OGDEN: It’s Morfin here who broke the law!

MARVOLO: And you! Laughing at us?
No one mocks the Gaunt men.
You’ll be nothing but trouble again and again.
You must leave our house now.

MORFIN: Leave our house right now!

OGDEN: Right… I’ll be on my way.


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2. I Dreamed a Dream

MEROPE: There was a time when men were kind
And their voices soft and their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And life was a song, and the song was exciting.
There was a time when it all went wrong.

I dreamed a dream in days gone by
When hope was high and life worth living.
I thought Tom’s love would never die
That it was real, what he was giving.
When I was young and unafraid
The days I spent, the weeks I wasted.
At last, my love potion was made
And given to him to be tasted.

But I thought one fateful night
That he needed it no longer.
But he tore my hope away
And he turned my dreams to shame…

He spent a summer by my side
And with him, I, for once, was happy.
He said without me, he’d have died
But he was gone when autumn came.
And still, I dream he’ll come to me
And we could spend the years together.
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather.

I had a dream that life would be
So different from the life I’m living.
So different now from what it seemed
But Tom has killed the dream I dreamed.


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3. Borgin and Burke’s (Lovely Ladies)

BURKE: I smell heirlooms, smell ‘em in the air
Didn’t think I’d get ‘em from that beggar over there.
Ugly lady, stumblin’ through the storm
Desp’rate to be fed and really dying to get warm.
Even beggars’ things can bring a swarm.

MEROPE: Borgin and Burke’s, shining like a light
Waiting for a customer to come inside tonight.
And here I am, yielding to its call
I’m prepared to sell my things for any price at all.
Borgin and Burke’s, refuge from the squall.

BURKE: Come here, my dear
Let’s see this trinket you wear
This bagatelle.

MEROPE: Here, sir, I’ll sell it to you.

BURKE: I’ll give you four.

MEROPE: That wouldn’t pay for the chain!

BURKE: I’ll give you five. You’re far too eager to sell
It’s up to you.

MEROPE: It’s all I have!

BURKE: That’s not my fault!

MEROPE: I need the gold!

BURKE: No more than five!
My dear, we must all stay alive.
Ugly lady, came in from the dark
Going to have a baby, though I didn’t dare remark.
Where’d she come from, where’s she going now?
Where’d she get that locket? It’s near priceless, really—wow!
Did she steal it, ragged cockeyed cow?

And earrings, too!
What pretty jewels you got there.
What luck you got—they’re worth a Galleon, my dear.
I’ll take the lot.

MEROPE: Don’t touch me, leave me alone.

BURKE: Let’s make a price—I’ll throw a Sickle in, too!
Just think of that!

MEROPE: It pays a debt…

BURKE: Just think of that!

MEROPE: What can I do? It pays a debt.
The gold may save me even yet.

BURKE: Ugly lady, not too bright to boot.
Sold ‘em for a price that’s too low for a patched-up suit.
Ugly lady, what’s she need it for?
If she’s got such jewelry, she can’t hardly be poor.
Aren’t I lucky she walked in the door?

MEROPE: Please tell me, sir, where can I stay the night?

BURKE: Right over there. I’m sure you’ll find it suits you right.

MEROPE: (To herself as she’s leaving) It’s for my son, I’m doing all I can.
I might have known I couldn’t trust a man.
Ugly lady, not worth staying for, eh?
Ugly lady!

INNKEEPER: Come on dearie, why all the fuss?
Can’t be worse off than the rest of us.
Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap
Come inside, looks like you need some sleep.
Fifteen galleons, that’ll be the trick.

MEROPE: I don’t have that, and I’m feeling sick!

INNKEEPER: Sorry, kid, I take ‘em as they come
I need paying customers, not scum.
Good men, bald men, leaders of the land.
I’ll give anyone a bed, whether or not they’re grand.
But only with money in my hand.

MEROPE: Ugly lady, going for a walk
Everything is cold and grey and everything’s so dark.
Clothes are ragged, and I don’t have shoes.
I can feel the labour pains, I don’t have time to lose.
I need shelter, food, healers, a bed.
Thought I’d find it here, but they just turn me down instead.
One more night, and I’ll be dying dead!


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4. Who Was She? (Who Am I?)

TOM RIDDLE SENIOR: She said she married me.
It only took a glance
For me to see that she
Could never stand a chance!
Why would she be my bride?
How could I have gone wrong?
I don’t remember at all
And she says it’s been so long.
I sent her on her way, of course…
But why do I feel such remorse?

I am the owner of hundreds of acres
People look to me.
If I lived with that tramp
What would they think?
But who was she?

I sent her on her way, of course
But why do I feel such remorse?

Who was she?
This woman who said she had married me?
Her belly swollen with her pregnancy?
The look of love upon her face
When she saw me, I can’t erase
Who was she?

Will I be doomed to wonder ever more
Why I just can’t recall her from before?
And will she live or will she die?
I sent her off, I watched her cry.
What am I?

How can I ever face my fellow men?
How can I go back home again?
Her soul belongs to me, she said
It’s been a year since we were wed!
I sent her off into the snow
I didn’t think where she would go!
Who was she?
I do not know!

And on my life, I swear it’s true
My wife, I can’t remember you?
Who was she?
I wish I knew?


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5. Death of Merope (Death of Fantine)
Merope has collapsed on the steps of Mrs. Cole’s orphanage.

MEROPE: Why has it turned so cold?
Why are the lights all fading?
Why do I feel like it’s
The dead of night?

MRS. COLE: Come inside.

MEROPE: Madame, I have no money.

MRS. COLE: Doesn’t matter, come in and rest, honey.
Come inside and sit beside the fire
And stay with us until you’re full and happier and drier.
Hurry in, you look like you’re near dying.
Tracks of tears streak down your face from crying.

MEROPE: There’s a darkness that comes without a warning.
Please keep my baby here with you, I’ll be gone by the morning.
Mrs. Cole, my time is running out.
But please let my child stay when I am gone.
Here I lie and watch the children play…
Shooting marbles, singing songs.
My boy Tom—I’ll name him for his father—
Take him now
I hope I’m not a bother.
Mrs. Cole, I’m nearly off to heaven.

MRS. COLE: Ma’am, none will ever harm your son as long as I am living.

MEROPE: Take my hand… the night grows ever colder.

MRS. COLE: This drink will keep you warm.

MEROPE: Take the boy, I give him to your keeping.

MRS. COLE: Take shelter from the storm.

MEROPE: I know that I won’t wake from my sleeping
I hope Tom grows up big and strong
And handsome like his pa…


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6. Dumbledore’s Recommendation (Confrontation)

DUMBLEDORE: Ah, Tom, at last
We see each other plain…
I’ve heard of you
And Dumbledore’s my name.

TOM: Before you say another word, old man
Before you drag me to the loony bin
Listen to me, there’s a warning you must heed.
I am so much more than a suffering child
And if you think you can intercede
Remember, mighty trees spring from small seeds.

DUMBLEDORE: I promise you, I mean no harm.
I promise you.

TOM: Ha, you think me mad!
No one can prove I hurt that kid
None can explain the things I did
And that includes you.

(In counterpoint)

Believe of me what you will.
You never will know just what I can do.
You know nothing of my life
You just want to check my head.
But I’m my own boss, I’m nobody’s son.
I am warning you, old man
I can hurt people, I can!
There is power in me yet
My race is not yet run!
I am warning you old man
You’d prefer it if you ran
If I have to kill you here
I’ll do what must be done.


DUMBLEDORE: (In counterpoint) I do not think you’re deranged
But I notice something strange.
You hurt people at will.
But all great wizards seek power sometime
Even go so far as to kill.
I’m sure your life can turn around
You’re new to the gifts you found.
I will give you a fair chance
Though I’ll keep a watchful eye
Of the ways genius corrupts
No one knows better than I.
You know nothing of me, Tom
Untethered by dad or mom
I once sought Dark Arts like you,
Tom, I was an orphan, too.

(He sets the wardrobe on fire.)

DUMBLEDORE: And this I swear to you tonight…

TOM: My future’s never looked so bright!

DUMBLEDORE: You’ll be a wizard, you’ll be taught!

TOM: Think of the power that I’ve got!

DUMBLEDORE: I’ll try to lead you to the light.

BOTH: I promise you, I will be there.


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7. Castle of Hogwarts (Castle on a Cloud)

TOM: There is a castle called Hogwarts
I’m going there in just one week.
No more will I be called a freak
Not in the castle of Hogwarts.

I killed kids’ pets, I stole their toys.
Hated and feared by girls and boys.
I’ll start afresh, I’ll find cohorts
There at the castle of Hogwarts.

There is a lady working here
Public servant, but slave to beer.
She takes my hand, I flinch at her touch.
She lies to me, says she’ll miss me so much.

So many days I’ve spent alone
I’ll find a place that’s all my own.
I’ll find a place all… Voldemort’s
There at the castle of Hogwarts.


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8. Heir of Slytherin (Master of the House)
Years have passed and Tom is now a fifth year at Hogwarts.

TOM: Everyone knows
Teachers run schools
But at Hogwarts
Here, it’s me who rules!
As for the rest
All of them dumb.
No one’s yet realized what I’ve become.
Seldom do you see
Teachers’ pets like me
Wreaking havoc, chaos, and catastrophe!

Heir of Slytherin
Doling out the charm.
Teachers love it when you pile on the smarm.
Help the teachers out
Open doors with care.
That includes the chamber, but let’s not split hairs!
Glad to do the teachers favours
Doesn’t cost me to be nice.
But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price.

Heir of Slytherin
Keeper of the snakes.
Sic ‘em on the students when they make mistakes.
Getting teachers drunk
Sitting back to wait.
Learning Dark Arts secrets when they can’t think straight!
Everybody loves Tom Riddle
Everybody’s bosom friend.
I’m playing human bingo
Jingo! But I’ll kill ‘em in the end!

Heir of Slytherin
Quick to catch your eye.
If I was a Basilisk, that means you’d die!
Humble, shy, and poor
Handsome, bright, and kind.
Sneaky evil plotter who can read your mind!
Everybody’s favourite student
Everybody’s bestest bud!
But evil thoughts are swirlin’,
Merlin! Watch the taps all run with blood!

Made a Horcrux
And it’s a beaut!
Certainly beats a manky old boot.
Pure evil? Yes.
Some say they’re worse
More than an Unforgivable Curse.
Just a simple book
“Till you look inside.
Horcruxes are great reasons for homicide!

Petrifying kids
Sorry, sonny Jim!
Get an oaf called Hagrid and pretend it’s him.
Having chats with snakes
Feeding them live cats
Dogs, whole pigs, and little kids, and this and that.
Won a special service prize, too.
Watched the teachers swell with pride.
Little do they know, it’s thanks to me that awful Myrtle died.

Cursing kids who stare
Crucios for glares
Even more if they snore like asthmatic bears.
Blackmailing the kids
Bribery’s too soft!
Ask them how they feel about their heads cut off!
When it comes to quiet terror
There’s a lot of tricks I know.
Storin’ up my ammo
Whammo! And just watch the sucker go!

DEATH EATERS: Heir of Slytherin
Quick to catch your eye
If he was a Basilisk, that means, you’d die!
Humble, shy, and poor
Handsome, bright, and kind.
Sneaky evil plotter who can read your mind!
He’s the world’s best evil leader
Gives us everything he’s got!

TOM: Petty, weak, and silly,
Really! They’re a pretty sorry lot.

MINERVA: He thinks he’s royalty—a lord? Absurd!
I’m thinking ‘queen’ would be a better word!
Heir of Slytherin?
Don’t buy that a bit.
He’s no more than just another creepy git.
Probably insane
Won’t wear underwear.
Tends to wear eyeliner—though he’s got great hair!
What a cruel trick of Dippet’s
Lumping me with such a louse.
It’s hardly a secret he’s an awful prefect for his house!

TOM: Heir of Slytherin!

MINERVA: Air’s what’s in your head!

TOM: Future world dictator…

MINERVA: And nearly brain-dead!

TOM: This school’s like a dog eating from my palm.

MINERVA: Quit the evil act, ‘cause you don’t fool me, Tom!

DEATH EATERS: Everybody loves Tom Riddle.

MINERVA: Aka Lord Volderkins!

TOM: Everyone raise your wands high!

MINERVA: Stick ‘em in Tom Riddle’s eye!

ALL: Raise ‘em in the air, ‘cause he’s the heir of all the Slytherins!


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9. Tom Goes Horcrux-Happy (Thenardiers’ Waltz of Treachery)
Tom pays a visit to Morfin.

MORFIN: Why are you here today?
Come to carry our treasure away?

TOM: What a friendly welcome
For your sister Merope’s own son.

MORFIN: Her husband lives there—

TOM: Great!
Thank you for you help… OBLIVIATE!

He steals the ring and heads off for the Riddle house.

TOM: Dear Mama, gone to rest
Did you do for her child what is best?
I’m your son… I’m your own.
I’m your own filthy flesh, blood, and bone.
Yes, your bone, Papa.
I think the hatred’s mutual
And I will ease the parting blow.
I’ll make it quick and painless—right now, indeed.
Apologies are past what I need.

He kills them and leaves.

Later, at Hepzibah Smith’s.

HEPZIBAH: Tom, my boy, come and see
Special treasures of my family.
Come and see, Tommy dear
Look at this cup and locket right here.
Not that I’ll name a price
These are not for sale—told Borgin twice.

TOM: Mrs. Smith, now I think
It’s time for your hot chocolate drink.
Please let me—with my back turned.
(To himself) Foolish woman, you’d think you’d have learned.


Next, we see him looking distorted and icky years later, asking Dumbledore for a job.

TOM: No more chat. Name your price.
You would do well to heed my advice.

DUMBLEDORE: (Pleasantly) Tom, heed mine. Say goodbye.
Please don’t come back for another try.

TOM: That’s a choice you’ll regret.
This will be a day you won’t forget.

(He exits to ominous organ music.)


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10. Scars (Stars)

Tom is now Voldemort, his transformation complete, but he’s tossing and turning in his sleep.

VOLDEMORT: Sometimes when the dark falls
I dream I’m defeated
Fallen from grace
Fallen from grace
Thanks to a baby!
A worthless young brat
With a scar on his face
With a scar on his face.

I see it loom in the dark
Although I am the Dark Lord.
And I know that no one can defeat me
That I’m worshipped, adored.
I dream I’ll fall as Grindelwald fell
Be sneered upon, abhorred!

Scars
Like a lightning bolt
Dancing and taunting
Filling the darkness.
They mock me at night!
Telling me I can’t win
Against Dumbledore
And his forces of light
And his forces of light.

It isn’t my plan to die
Defeat just isn’t my game.
I’m invincible! Forever strong!
Never weak! Never lame!
If I fall, I’ll fall like the phoenix
And rise again in flame.

And so it has been and always will be
Everyone will kneel before me
I’ll not falter, I’ll never fall
And they’ll all see.

So why does J.K. Rowling still scare me?
I’d move to Mars
But still never rest!
Because I’d still dream
I’d still dream about scars!


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11. Look ‘Round (Look Down)

WITCHES AND WIZARDS: Look down and see the corpses at your feet!
Look at the work of this inhuman man!
Look ‘round and see the blood run down the street!
Look ‘round, look ‘round
Who knows how this began?

VOLDEMORT: How do you do, I’m the Dark Lord!
Be a Death Eater, stay alive!
The wand is more powerful than the sword
Throw me a wand, I’ll parry five.
This is a different, new society
This is a land of living hell.
It seems my men are feeling riot-y.
Ring out the funereal bell.
Want to live?
To be free?
Follow me! Follow me!

WITCHES AND WIZARDS: Look at the work of this inhuman man
Look ‘round, look ‘round, who knows how this began?


BELLATRIX: Rod and I will come
Scratch our inner itch.
I’ve a thirst for killing
And my lust for blood still burns.

VOLDEMORT: Help me kill those bums
That’s a proper witch.
I can see we’ll hit it off
You and Rod can take turns.

LUCIUS: Think I’ll join as well
Pick the winning side
Doing anything else
Would be suicide.

FENRIR: Count me in then, too
Some call me insane
But I like to eat people
Uh, especially the brain.

WITCHES AND WIZARDS: When’s it gonna end?
Are we gonna live?
Someone’s gotta stop him now or something’s gotta give
It’ll come, it’ll come, it’ll come.

VOLDEMORT: I am the leader of this band
I’m the ringmaster of this show.
Only one man rules here—that’s me!
Nothing can stop me, make me go!

WOMAN: That’s my baby’s head!

MAN: Help me in my shame!

WITCHES AND WIZARDS: Do something about our dread in Merlin’s pants’s name

WOMAN: In his plaid boxers’ name.

WITCHES AND WIZARDS: In the name, in the name, in the name.
Please help us now, we’re fading fast
Won’t last the week out, so they say.

VOLDEMORT: With all the Mudbloods in the land
How long before their final day?
Before we cut the scumbags down to size.
Before each last blood traitor dies.

ALL: Look at the work of this merciless man
Look ‘round, look ‘round, who knows how this began?


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12. Skull and Snake, Green and Red (Red and Black)

BELLATRIX: In Hogsmeade, all the Mudbloods are destroyed.

RODOLPHUS: At Godric’s Hollow, they’re nearly wiped out.

LUCIUS: Cronies, minions, everyone
There’s a river on the run.
Like the flowing of the tide
Britain coming to our side!

VOLDEMORT: The time is near!

FENRIR: So near I’m slurping the blood from their veins!

VOLDEMORT: And yet, beware.

FENRIR: Because I might just eat your brains!

Everyone looks at him strangely.

VOLDEMORT: For the army we fight is a dangerous foe
Though the Ministry fell to our feet.
It is easy to sit here and swat ‘em like flies
But the Order, I fear, will be harder to beat.
We need a sign
To rally the people
To call them to arms
To bring them in line.

Enter Snape.

Severus, you’re late.

BELLATRIX: What’s wrong today?
You look as though you’ve seen a ghost.

LUCIUS: Sit down and say what’s going on.

SNAPE: A girl I’ve known for my whole life
Married today, she’s now a wife.
One minute there, the next one gone.

BELLATRIX: I am agog, I am aghast!
Is Severus in love at last?
I’ve never heard him ooh and aah!

RODOLPHUS: We talk of battles to be one
Then in Snape walks like Don Juuu-an!
It’s just like a soap opera!

VOLDEMORT: (Patently ignoring them) It is time for us all to decide who we are.
We can’t just sit around talking of soap operas now.
Have you asked of yourself why you’ve joined today?
It is not just a game for purebloods to play
We’ve overthrown the world
It’s changing day by day.

Snake—the life that springs from death!
Skull—a victim’s skeleton!

LUCIUS: Skull—someone who’s smelled Snape’s breath!

VOLDEMORT: (Glaring) Snake—the sign of Slytherin!

SNAPE: Had you been there tonight, you might know how it feels
To be stuck to the bone with pure horror and fright.

VOLDEMORT: Had you been here on time, you might also have seen
All the colours of spells, all the bright beams of light.

SNAPE: Why does this seem so wrong and Lily seems so right?

DEATH EATERS: Green—the noble killing curse!
Red—the dashing Crucios!
Green—a bruise that’s getting worse!
Red—a victim’s blood that flows!

SNAPE: (Simultaneous with above) Green—envy that never dies!
Red—the pain when she’s not there!
Green—the colour of her eyes!
Red—the colour of her hair!

VOLDEMORT: Severus, you’re no longer a child.
I do not doubt you mean it well
But now there is a higher call.
Look at me and my shattered soul!
We strive toward a larger goal.
Love doesn’t matter, not at all!

EVERYONE BUT SNAPE: Snake—the life that springs from death!
Skull—a victim’s skeleton!
Skull—someone who’s smelled Snape’s breath!
Snake—the sign of Slytherin!


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13. Do You Hear the People Scream? (Do You Hear the People Sing)

VOLDEMORT: Do you hear the people scream?
Screaming the screams of dying men?
Yes, it is music to my ears
Because they can’t fight back again!
When the beating of their hearts
Cease and they grow cold, stiff, and numb
There is a life about to end when tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with us?
There’s Bella, Rod, Rabastan, Fenrir, Me, and Severus.
Or don’t join the fight, have your last rites and go back to dust!

Do you hear the people scream?
Screaming the screams of dying men?
Yes, it is music to my ears
Because they can’t fight back again!
When the beating of their hearts
Cease and they grow cold, stiff, and numb
There is a life about to end when tomorrow comes!

Will you give all you can give so that the Dark Lord may advance?
Most will die, but some will live
It might be you, so take the chance!
The blood of the traitors
Will spread ‘cross the sea into France!

Do you hear the people scream?
Screaming the screams of dying men?
Yes, it is music to my ears
Because they can’t fight back again!
When the beating of their hearts
Cease and they grow cold, stiff, and numb
There is a life about to end when tomorrow comes!

1. Spare Their Lives (In My Life)

VOLDEMORT:
How strange
This feeling of fear so rife
This change
Can someone really end the Dark Lord’s life?
What’s the matter with you, come on!
The prophecy’s got a grip on you.
Its words were so unclear I must have misconstrued…

In my life
There are so many people I’ve killed and it never felt wrong.
But my life
Was intended to stretch on and on evermore for eternity long.
Can it be?
My fate sealed by a prophecy?
That some boy
Will one day have the chance
To defeat me?

What if it does come true?
What if it all was real?
I won’t be disposed of like a banana peel!
End his life
I must go to his house, find the boy
Kill him and thwart his fate.
Before it is too late.


SNAPE:
Please, my lord, by all means kill the child.
As for the boy’s dad, I’d say feel free.
Believe me, were it within my power
I’d kill them by next hour
But keep alive Lily, Lord, for me.
I feel I need some… company.


VOLDEMORT:
There’s so little I know
Nor do I want to know
Of your love for the girl,
Of your raging hormones.
I just can’t understand
Frankly, I think it’s gross.
And if you kissed the girl
Where would you put that nose?
But I ask nonetheless
Proceed with your request.


SNAPE:
Spare her life
Please, my lord, I beseech you
I need self-esteem.
Just this once, just this once
Let me have her for my own
Let a creepy stalker boy dream.


VOLDEMORT:
No more words.
No more words, Snape, I can sense your dread.
I’ll bear on.
And if all goes well, she won’t be dead.


SNAPE:
In my life
I have so much I still haven’t learned
That guys my age should know.
Most guys learned years ago.


VOLDEMORT:
You will learn
Love is nothing at all
But you’ll find that yourself
All in turn.

(Voldemort goes to the Potter house.)

JAMES:
Through my door
He has burst like a bomb
Unexploded and dormant ‘till now.
And my heart
Seems to stop and I stare and I gasp
And I wonder just how.
We’re betrayed.
Who’s the “friend� who has led them here?
Thanks to him, I’ll be dead very soon
Now heaven is near.
Lily, run for your life, let me die, take Harry.
Every step that he takes is a dagger in me.

(Voldemort kills him, runs up to Harry’s bedroom. Lily blocks the crib.)

LILY:
Spare his life
James is gone, now there’s no one I have anywhere.

VOLDEMORT:
Stand aside, foolish girl!

LILY:
Spare his life, save my world!
Spare his life!
I’ve a weapon as sharp as a knife.

VOLDEMORT:
What is that?

LILY:
Glad you ask.

(Segues directly into the next song.)


2. A Heart Full of Love

LILY:
A heart full of love
Like pure phoenix song.

VOLDEMORT:
You’re doing everything all wrong!
Have you no pride?
You are supposed to stand aside.
I know you’re scared
Stand aside
You’ll be spared.


LILY:
A heart full of love
No fear, no regrets
The last gift I can give Harry.

VOLDEMORT:
Can you move yet?

LILY:
Oh, no, I’ll never move away.
Not ‘till I die.

VOLDEMORT:
Now I’m lost… say goodbye!

LILY:
A heart full of light.

VOLDEMORT:
His life ends tonight!

LILY:
No way you’ll kill my son today!

VOLDEMORT:
Time’s running short…

LILY:
This is a vow I’ll never break.

VOLDEMORT:
You’ve made a grave mistake.

LILY:
A heart full of love…

VOLDEMORT:
Then I’ll kill you, too.

LILY:
That’s something you will never do.
Don’t laugh, it’s true
From today
Everyday.
You will never harm him
Never harm him, not at all.

(Snape sings simultaneously with above, in counterpoint.)

SNAPE:
She was never mine to lose.
Why regret what cannot be?
She will never be mine now
Not for me
Not for me.
My heart’s full of love
Love that now I’ll never see.

(Voldemort kills Lily, tries to kill Harry, and ASPLODES. Yes, ASPLODES. Exploding just isn’t graphic enough for what happens to Voldemort. Just try recreating this part on the stage!)


3. Hogwarts Attack (Plumet Attack)
(Voldemort, now on the back of Quirrel’s head, is trying to steal the stone.)

VOLDEMORT:
This is his school
He’s always searching around
Sticks in his nose
Sniffing about like a hound
I smell triumph here!
Ten years ago
Ripped me from body and soul.
I had to go hide away
Underground like a mole.
That’ll cost him dear!

QUIRREL:
What do I care?
Just take the stone!
Why kill the boy?
Leave him alone!

VOLDEMORT:
You shut your mouth
Give a hand!

(Harry walks in)

VOLDEMORT:
What have we here?

HARRY:
Who is this man?

QUIRREL:
I’m your Professor Quirrel
Don’t you recognize me?

HARRY:
What are you doing down here?

QUIRREL:
Ah, I’m glad you asked.
I’m after the stone
But I am not alone here.

(He unwraps his turban to reveal Voldemort’s face.)

HARRY:
I know this man
I won’t let you take the stone away.
I have the stone with me now.

VOLDEMORT
You’ll wish you weren’t in my way!

(Lunges for Harry. Quirrel disintegrates. Cut to Tom and the diary the next year.)

TOM:
It’s been a year
But I’ve returned
Young Potter has
A lesson to be learned.
Chamber again
Basilisk, too
Potter, this tome
I will not fall to you!
I am the heir, I’m blaming it on Ginny here.
Now that I’m back, you won’t survive into next year!

(Harry walks in.)

TOM:
Ah, Potter again
What an absolute treat.
You are too late to save Ginny
You’ll be basilisk meat!

(Harry kills the basilisk)

TOM:
Not my basilisk,too!

HARRY:
Well, I told you I’d stop you, told you I’d stop you.

(He stabs the diary. Tom screams.)

TOM:
You wait, my boy, you’ll rue this night!
I will return, ready to fight!

(Disintegrates. But not the same way as Quirrel, or the way he ASPLODED earlier.)

HARRY:
Ginny, come on, don’t wait around!
Let’s leave the sewers, get above ground!

(Voldemort’s spirit is discovered by Pettigrew the next year.)

PETTIGREW:
My rodent friends showed me the way.

VOLDEMORT:
I owe you thanks, you’ll not regret this day.
Dear Pettigrew, my friend Wormtail
With you by me, we’ll never fail.
I shall return
Strong as before
And reign evermore!


4. One Day More
(It is the day before the last Triwizard task.)

VOLDEMORT:
One day more!
Until reunion with my own body.
Assisted by old Potty wee Potty.
The Death Eaters, dozen a dime
Will surely come a second time
One day more!

WORMTAIL:
He’s going to live in just one day!
And I am going to be rewarded.

VOLDEMORT:
One day more!

DEATH EATERS:
Tomorrow, we’ll come out to play!
No job too big, no deed too sordid!

HARRY:
One more challenge lies ahead.

DEATH EATERS:
I can’t wait ‘till Potter’s dead.

HARRY:
One more day until it’s over.

DEATH EATERS:
Over when we murder you!

HARRY:
I am shivering with dread.

DEATH EATERS:
Potter boy, our words are true.

HARRY:
I will never live it down!

CROUCH JR:
One more day, it’s getting warm!

HARRY:
Hope I don’t look a fool.

CROUCH JR:
At the graveyard where he’ll soon die.

HARRY:
There in front of the school.

CROUCH JR:
When the ranks begin to form

HARRY:
Plus Durmstrang and Beauxbatons!

CROUCH JR:
Dare they look him in the eye?

ALL:
The time is now, it’s nearly dawn!

HARRY:
One day more!

VOLDEMORT:
One more day to resurrection
None of this heroic crud!
I will crush that little schoolboy
He will wet himself with blood!

DEATH EATERS:
One day more!

SNAPE:
Watch them run amok
Feel the Dark Mark blaze
Hope I have good luck in the next several days.
Cozy where I am
Working at Hogwarts
One more day, and suddenly I’m Voldemort’s!

VOLDEMORT:
One day to a new beginning!

HARRY:
I’ll be lucky not to die

VOLDEMORT:
My revenge, my bitter dream!

HARRY:
Just to win would be a dream!

VOLDEMORT:
There’s a whole world for the winning

HARRY:
I can’t wait ‘till it’s all done.

DEATH EATERS:
Do you hear the people scream?

HARRY:
The day is near, what will I do?

VOLDEMORT:
One day more!

(The following all happens at pretty much the same time.)

WORMTAIL:
He’s going to live in just one day!
And I am going to be rewarded!

HARRY:
One more challenge lies ahead.

VOLDEMORT:
I’ll defeat the people’s hero
And they finally will see
That this boy has no real power
They will all bow down to me!

DEATH EATERS:
One day more.

WORMTAIL:
Tomorrow, we’ll come out to play!
No job too big, no deed to sordid!

HARRY:
I hope I won’t end up dead.

VOLDEMORT:
One more day to resurrection
‘Till the cogs begin to mesh.
It is my rebirthday party
I need bone and blood and flesh.

SNAPE:
Working for both sides
Give all I can give
Realizing that double agents rarely live.

(Everything stops being basically at the same time.)

HARRY:
Tomorrow evening, I’ll compete.

VOLDEMORT
Tomorrow evening, we will meet.

ALL:
Tomorrow, we’ll discover
What the cards of fate have got in store…
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!


5. On Your Own (On My Own)

VOLDEMORT:
And now you’re all alone again
Nowhere to turn, no one to go to.
Without your mum, without your dad
Without a single friend to help you.
And now that you are here
Your last hour is near.

How easy just to kill you now
When everybody else is sleeping.
And no one’s here to care about you
No one to collapse on weeping.
There’s only your friend, Ced.
And it appears that he is dead.

On your own, there’s nobody beside you.
All alone, without a single warning.
Nobody to cry once I have fried you
And you’ll never escape
Nobody has, although they’ve tried to.

In the dark, my bald head shines a pearly white.
And my eyes are glowing scarlet by night.
In the darkness, Death Eaters stand around me.
Their sinister masks uplit by the shining beams of wandlight.

And I know, I know what’s on your mind.
You’re a Gryffindor, you think you can’t get up.
And although, you know you’ll never win.
You will make a break for that cup.

I’ll kill you
Before the night is over.
Your mum thought
She’d save you—well, I’ll show her!
But just now…
The night around us changes.
Our wands unite
There’s bursts of light
The graveyard’s full of strangers.

I’ll kill you
So what’s this subtle burning?
Who are these ghosts shining bright as morning?
They’re all dead!
So why’s my stomach churning?
Can there be magic on your side
That even I don’t know?

I’ll kill you…
I will, too!
I’ll kill you…
But now, you’re not alone…

(Harry grabs the cup and Cedric’s body and goes.)


6. The Attack on the Ministry (The Attack/Javert At The Barricade)

(In Harry’s dream in OotP, Voldemort is torturing Sirius.)

VOLDEMORT:
Sirius Black, listen closely to me.
No one is coming to help you to fight.
You’re all alone, you have no friends
Give it to me, or die.

SIRIUS:
Do what you will with my life.
You can’t break me if you try.

HARRY:
I won’t let him take your life!
Dumbledore’s Army will rise!

HARRY:
Listen, my friends
I have had a strange dream
I know what it all means
And I’ll tell what I can.

RON:
What’s the matter now, man?

HARRY:
Lord Voldemort
Is at the Ministry
He’s got Sirius Black!
I will need all my courage
To bring Snuffles back.

NEVILLE:
Have faith
If you know where Voldemort is
We’ll bring him down.
There are ways that our people can FIGHT!
We can overcome his power!

(At the Ministry, Lucius Malfoy approaches them.)

LUCIUS:
You’ve played right into our hands
There will be just one death tonight.
We intend to snuff you out
Before you start a proper fight.
You are just a boy.
You can’t match the Dark Lord’s might.

NEVILLE:
Liar!
Good evening, Mr. Malfoy, I hope you’re doing well.
I’m saying this because soon you won’t feel all that swell!
Don’t trust in what you just said because none of it’s true.
We’ll only go to show what little people can do.

D.A. SIX:
And little people know
When little people fight
We may look easy pickings
But we’ve got some bite.
So never kick a dog
Because it’s just a pup.

NEVILLE:
‘Cause we’re Dumbledore’s Army, and we won’t give up!

D.A. SIX:
So you better run for cover when the pup grows up!

(They fight the Death Eaters.)


7. Your Silly Little Games (A Little Fall of Rain)

(Dumbledore and Voldemort are facing off in the Ministry.)

VOLDEMORT:
Don’t you try a thing, Dumbledore.
I won’t feel any pain.
Your silly little games
Can hardly hurt me now.
I’m back.

DUMBLEDORE:
Yes, I already know.

VOLDEMORT:
And I will kill you now
And I will kill you here.

DUMBLEDORE:
You say that quite a lot…

VOLDEMORT:
That’s low!

DUMBLEDORE:
But I will live
For you know nothing of
The force that heals all wounds,
The strength of love.

VOLDEMORT:
Then try it, old man, duel with me
Here in the Ministry.
I will live a thousand years
As only I know how.
You can’t defeat me now.
You’ll never beat me now.

DUMBLEDORE:
Oh Tom, you’re living in the past.
I do not aim to kill
I do not seek a thrill
I’m shielding the boy from your blast.

VOLDEMORT:
Is that what brings you here,
To save the boy?

DUMBLEDORE:
I will let you use him like a toy!
His dreams led him to where you are
You controlled him through his scar.

VOLDEMORT:
Don’t you try a thing, Dumbledore
I won’t feel any pain.
Your silly little games
Can hardly hurt me now.
I’m back, I have so far to go!
And I will kill you now
And I will kill you here…

DUMBLEDORE:
(In counterpoint)
You won’t win today, Tom I think
The boy will live again.
He’s been through world’s of pain
You cannot hurt him now.
I’m here
I know you, Tom.
I know your weakness.

BOTH:
There’s so much that you’ll never know.


8. Drink With Me To Lives Gone By (Drink With Me To Days Gone By)

VOLDEMORT:
Drink with me to lives gone by
Those we overthrew.

FENRIR:
Here’s to pretty girls I ate in their beds.

BELLATRIX:
Here’s to witty girls now missing their heads!

ALL:
Here’s to them, and here’s to you.

WORMTAIL:
Drink with them to lives gone by…
Can they tell I fear to die?
Will the world remember me when I fall?
Could it be my death means nothing at all?
Is my life just one more lie?

ALL:
Drink with me to lives gone by.

WORMTAIL AND SNAPE:
To the friends that used to be.

ALL:
We can feign friendship until our friends die.

WORMTAIL AND SNAPE:
And nobody knows it better than I.
Mine are dead because of me.

SNAPE:
Who will care should I die
Unmasked in my treachery?
Life without Lily means nothing at all
Would you weep, Lily, should Severus fall?
Would you weep, Lily, for me?

9. Bring Him Down (Bring Him Home)

VOLDEMORT:
Severus, hear my call.
You’re the one who I trust most of all.
Dumbledore’s growing old
Let him rest, stiff and cold.
Bring him down
Bring him down
Bring him down.

DUMBLEDORE:
You’re like a son I might have known
If God had granted me a son.
The summers die one by one
How soon they fly on and one
And I am old and will be gone.
Bring me down, I will smile
I am weak, I am growing senile.

VOLDEMORT AND DUMBLEDORE:
If you give, you can take
Let him (me) die
Do it, Snape.

SNAPE:
I will try…

VOLDEMORT AND DUMBLEDORE:
Let him (me) die
You must live.
Bring him (me) down
Bring him (me) down
Bring him (me) down…


10. Man Eat Man (Dog Eat Dog)

(During the Death Eaters’ attack on Hogwarts in HBP, Fenrir is a bit busy.)

FENRIR:
Here’s somebody’s eye
Stuck onto my tooth
Pop it on a toothpick and I’ve got me an hors deuvre.
What a snack to serve.
Add it to the pot, cook it in the stock
Gonna give those tasty boys and girls what they deserve.

Well, someone’s gotta clean ‘em up, my friends
Bodies in the hallway, law and order upside down.
Someone’s got to pick up the odds and ends
As a service to the town.

Here’s a little snack
Pretty hair of black
Wouldn’t want to waste it, that would really be a crime.
Just a victim of the fight.
Make me a Manwich
That would be delish.
His heart’s no longer going
And he’s lived his little time.
I’ve a monstrous appetite.

Well, someone’s gotta clean ‘em up, my friends
Before the little harvest decomposes into mud.
Someone’s gotta pick up the odds and ends
When the carpet’s thick with blood…

It’s a world
Where a man eats man.
Picking up my lunch on the street
The other Death Eaters don’t dare interfere
‘Cause they’re scared they’ll be the next to eat.
I raise my eyes to see the heavens
And only the moon looks down.
The round, full moon looks dowwwwwwwwOOOOOOO!

(Howls at the moon maniacally and transforms into a werewolf.)


11. Snape’s Dilemma (Javert’s Suicide)

(Snape is standing outside the stairs to the tallest tower, knowing that soon he will have to kill Dumbledore.)

SNAPE:
Who is this man, what sort of devil is he
To catch us both in this trap
When only I can walk free?
Now the hour is near
And I stand here and wait
Bringing an innocent man to his fate.
Each breath I draw stabs my heart like a knife.
He spared me once
Now I take away his life.

Why would he want to die just to save me?
How is my life more important than he?
If I died, nobody would care!
I am a man no one should spare!
Nothing makes any sense anymore.
It is either Snape or Dumbledore!

How can this man command me now
To fall back into villainy?
The Dark Arts once were my addiction
The thing I once was
Relied on that buzz.

Albus deserves a grander death
It is his right.
It is my right to die, as well.
Instead, I live, but live in hell.

And tonight, I’ll rejoin
All those Death Eater scum.
Can my willpower stand it?
And what will I become?

And must I now begin to fear
After these cold, unruffled years?
My heart is stone… but now it trembles.
I don’t recognize
The fear in my eyes.
As I prepare to cast this spell…
Doesn’t he know
That dying so I can live on
This man has killed me even so?

I am climbing up the stairs
And my eyes are black and cold
As I stare into the void
Of a world that cannot hold
I retreat to my own world
To the bitter world of Snape
There is nothing I can do
There is no way to escape!

(He charges up the stairs, flings the door open, and kills Dumbledore.)


11. Learning (Turning)

(In Deathly Hallows, after the first fight against Voldemort, everyone thinks Harry’s dead.)

STUDENTS:
Did you see him going off to fight?
Standing like a hero, but he didn’t last the night.
Did you see him lying where he died?
Hagrid held and cradled him
Did you see how he cried?
Did you see him walk to suicide?
Who will wake him?

VOLDEMORT:
No one ever will!
Didn’t even try, because he knew that I would kill.
Stupid schoolboy, fought me one-on-one.
Now he’s gone forever, and my new regime’s begun.
I will conquer, now the fighting’s done!

STUDENTS:
Everything’s changed, can we stay alive
When not even Harry Potter managed to survive?
What can we do? What’s the use of tears?
What’s the use of crying when only the Dark Lord hears?

VOLDEMORT:
Learning, learning, finally they see
This world has no justice
Instead, all there is is me.
Nothing changes, nothing ever can
I put Potter in his place, we’re back where we began.
Round and round and back where we began.


12. Empty Chairs At The House Tables (Empty Chairs At Empty Tables)

(Harry is walking through the Great Hall under the Invisibility cloak, looking at the dead bodies lying out on the tables.)

HARRY:
There’s a grief that can’t be spoken
There’s a pain goes on and on
Empty chairs at the house tables
Now my friends are dead and gone.

Here we talked and laughed at mealtime
Here’s the seats we’d always claim.
Here we talked about tomorrow
But tomorrow never came.

On the table now they’re stretched out
And their eyes are wide and blank
They are lying there unseeing
Right where I ate and drank.

The very walls that kept them safe
Became their resting places
Broken bodies stay as souls flit on…

Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
That I live and you are gone
There’s a grief that can’t be spoken
There’s a pain goes on and on.

I can see them through the window
Every minute killing more.
Empty chairs at the house tables
Splattered now with blood and gore.

Oh my friends, my friends, don’t ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at the house tables
Where my friends will eat no more.


13. Heir of Slytherin Reprise (Wedding Chorale/Beggar at the Feast)
(The Death Eaters are convinced Harry is dead and are partying.)

DEATH EATERS:
Bust out the booze upon this day of days!
May all the servants of the great Dark Lord
In jubilation dance in drunken haze!
Death conquers all
Except Voldemort.

VOLDEMORT:
Ain’t it a laugh, ain’t it a treat?
I’m standing here and Potter is beat!
Some Weasley’s dead, that werewolf, too.
So’s Bellatrix, but what can you do?
Hogwarts at my feet
Hogwarts in the dust.
What a lovely day for quenching my bloodlust?

Heir of Slytherin, master of the school
I’m no longer threatened by that Potter fool.
Everywhere I go terrorizing folk
Sparing those I want to, but they mostly croak.

DEATH EATERS:
Glad we’re with the Dark Lord this day
What a happy hour we spend!
Serves all those who hate it
We’re the ones who made it in the end.

VOLDEMORT:
Watch the buggers duel, watch ‘em ‘till they drop
Keep your wits about you and you stand on top.
Master of the land, Horcruxes to spare
Drop an atom bomb on me, and I’m still there!
I love the way things are going.
What a future I can smell!
A new flag is unfurlin’,
Merlin! Think I’ll go get drunk as well!


14. Finale
(Harry walks back into the Great Hall to duel Voldemort, scaring the poo out of him.)

HARRY:
Now I’ve returned
Again, before you.
I’ll fight you like a man
For now I’m not afraid.

VOLDEMORT:
You will die, Potter, you’re going to die.
You’ve returned in time to say goodbye.

HARRY:
Oh, but Tom, I don’t think that I’ll die.
Kill me now
Come on, try.
Don’t you see that love protects my friends from you?
Don’t you know the magic that love can do?
Even Severus Snape was once in love, too.
My mother gave her life for me
Snape loved her his whole life through.

VOLDEMORT:
Snape killed Dumbledore upon my orders!

HARRY:
Wrong again! Love made Snape cross the borders.
And finally, I’m here to tell his story.
Despised and hated for so long, in death he’ll come to glory.
Riddle, try, repent, show some remorse for once.
Think of love, your splintered soul without it.
There’s a sad price for all of those who doubt it.
Love conquers death, and I’m the master
Of the Elder Wand!

(Harry and Voldemort fire curses at each other. Voldemort’s Avada Kedavra hits him, and he dies. Everyone stands in silence, speechless, unknowing what to say. After what seems like an eternity, Neville begins to sing quietly.)

NEVILLE:
Do you hear the people scream?
Screaming with triumph and with joy.
It is the music of the Phoenix
Harry, you’re their golden boy.

For the night’s ending at last
And there’s a flame that never dies
Like the Phoenix, we once fell
And tonight we rise.

(Other students begin to join in.)

STUDENTS:
We will live again in freedom
From the terrible Dark Lord
You’ve defeated Voldemort

HARRY:
With help from Neville and his sword!

ALL:
The Gryffindor lion has swallowed the serpent and roared!

HARRY:
Now I’m basking in the light
Thank you to those who stood by me.
Without you, Volders would still be here
And I’d be history.
Do you hear the phoenix sing?
Do you see Dumbledore’s glad face?
The future’s shining bright ahead
For the human race.


PEEVES:
We did it, we bashed him in
Potty wee Potty is the one
And Voldy has gone mouldy, too
So now let’s have a bit of fun.

ALL:
Do you hear old Peevesy sing?
Now that the strife and battle’s done
The Phoenix rises from the ash
Like the dawning sun…
Ohhhh, the dawning sun!

FIN