Hallelujah: Chapter 2
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Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya...
I remember when I first saw you. I mean, truly saw you. For I had seen you numerous times before then. I had seen your eyes well up with unshed tears, and I had been the one to put them there. You were insignificant. A speck of dust upon my shoe... Something to be brushed off and cast aside. I grew up knowing that you were inferior.
How ironic that it was you who taught me to sing Hallelujah.
So yes, I had seen you. But there came a day when I opened my blinded eyes and beheld you.
It was the day you hexed me. The Bat Bogey hex. My fury rose to a crest, and broke into a fevered haze which surrounded you with fire.
But you were untouched.
The next time I remember seeing you, you were surrounded by your friends... The man you love among them. Your fiery red hair flaming against the steadfast rock of black that is his. He is a safe place for your fire to rest. And he has borne the beating life has thrust upon him so well... Truly a rock, our wonderful Potter.
I admit it. I can still say his name with little but loathing, despite all I owe him. It was that unmeltable ice that made me unsafe for you. And you deserved better.
I have seen your eyes dance with the same flame that is in the midst of your hair, and in the moonlight it seems much more subdued... Like a moth, I am drawn to it, despite knowing it is my death...
I have said before that I live with memories. The ones of you... I cherish. I play them again and again, despite knowing what I know.
I was knocked aside by your glory, and the gutwrenching pain of beholding your magnificence raised me higher than I had ever been... And cut me lower than I shall ever care to remember.
So yes, I saw you. And you burned me through and through... Leaving a gaping wound that could only be healed by more fire... Your fire.
Where did you learn how to bring a man to his knees in beautiful agony? Did it come from being the only girl in the midst of a family of boys? Did it come from being the one that the hero of our time loves? Or do you only have the power over me?
Am I the only one who succumbs to your charms this way?
Answer me!
I scream to you, demanding a reply... But my voice only echoes off the cold walls of my manor. You are safe with Potter, where you should be. I acknowledge the rightness of it... The oughtness of it. But that doesn't mean that I must like it.
You changed me. I had my life planned. And then you burst into it, and changed everything. God I hate that you changed me. In some ways it was better to be blind and know nothing.
But at the same time, I cannot deny that my life is richer for knowing you. Oh gods but you were glorious. Are glorious. I will die with praises upon my lips for the joy of knowing the beauty of the earth that was contained within your small frame.
Even now, the mere memory of your splendor causes me to repeat my reverent song.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu....jah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya...
I remember when I first saw you. I mean, truly saw you. For I had seen you numerous times before then. I had seen your eyes well up with unshed tears, and I had been the one to put them there. You were insignificant. A speck of dust upon my shoe... Something to be brushed off and cast aside. I grew up knowing that you were inferior.
How ironic that it was you who taught me to sing Hallelujah.
So yes, I had seen you. But there came a day when I opened my blinded eyes and beheld you.
It was the day you hexed me. The Bat Bogey hex. My fury rose to a crest, and broke into a fevered haze which surrounded you with fire.
But you were untouched.
The next time I remember seeing you, you were surrounded by your friends... The man you love among them. Your fiery red hair flaming against the steadfast rock of black that is his. He is a safe place for your fire to rest. And he has borne the beating life has thrust upon him so well... Truly a rock, our wonderful Potter.
I admit it. I can still say his name with little but loathing, despite all I owe him. It was that unmeltable ice that made me unsafe for you. And you deserved better.
I have seen your eyes dance with the same flame that is in the midst of your hair, and in the moonlight it seems much more subdued... Like a moth, I am drawn to it, despite knowing it is my death...
I have said before that I live with memories. The ones of you... I cherish. I play them again and again, despite knowing what I know.
I was knocked aside by your glory, and the gutwrenching pain of beholding your magnificence raised me higher than I had ever been... And cut me lower than I shall ever care to remember.
So yes, I saw you. And you burned me through and through... Leaving a gaping wound that could only be healed by more fire... Your fire.
Where did you learn how to bring a man to his knees in beautiful agony? Did it come from being the only girl in the midst of a family of boys? Did it come from being the one that the hero of our time loves? Or do you only have the power over me?
Am I the only one who succumbs to your charms this way?
Answer me!
I scream to you, demanding a reply... But my voice only echoes off the cold walls of my manor. You are safe with Potter, where you should be. I acknowledge the rightness of it... The oughtness of it. But that doesn't mean that I must like it.
You changed me. I had my life planned. And then you burst into it, and changed everything. God I hate that you changed me. In some ways it was better to be blind and know nothing.
But at the same time, I cannot deny that my life is richer for knowing you. Oh gods but you were glorious. Are glorious. I will die with praises upon my lips for the joy of knowing the beauty of the earth that was contained within your small frame.
Even now, the mere memory of your splendor causes me to repeat my reverent song.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu....jah