"You were always hard to hold
So letting go ain't easy
I'm hanging on but growing cold
While my mind is leaving

Talk, talk is cheap
Give me a word you can keep
Cause you're halfway gone and I'm on my way
And I'm feeling, feelin feelin this way
Cause I'm halfway in but don't take too long
Cause I'm halfway gone, I'm halfway gone
You got one foot out the door
And choking on the other
Always think theres something more
Its just around the corner

Talk, talk is cheap
Give me a word you can keep
Cause I'm halfway gone and I'm on my way
And I'm feeling, feelin feelin this way
Cause you're halfway in but don't take too long
Cause I'm halfway gone, I'm halfway gone

If you want me out, then I'm on my way
And I'm feelin, feelin feelin this way
Cause you're halfway in, but don't take too long
Cause I'm halfway gone, I'm halfway gone (wohoww wohoww)
I'm halfway gone, I'm halfway gone (wohoww wohoww)

Now I'm halfway gone, I'm halfway gone
Don't take too long, don't take too long
Cause I'm on my way
If you take too long
Cause I'm halfway gone and I'm on my way
And I'm feeling, feelin Im feelin this way
Cause you're halfway in but don't take too long
Cause I'm halfway gone, I'm halfway gone

If you want me out, then I'm on my way
And I'm feelin , feelin feelin this way
Cause you're halfway in, but dont take too long
Cause I'm halfway gone, I'm halfway gone (wohoww wohoww)
Cause I'm halfway gone, and I'm halfway gone (wohoww wohoww)
Cause I'm halfway gone, yeah I'm halfway gone"

Harry, Ron, and Hermione were singing along with Lifehouse's 'Halfway Gone' while Harry sped toward the little hillside Italian village in his girlfriend's (fiancee', unknown to Ron and Hermione!) 911 canary yellow Porsche. (see the car Alice stole in New Moon by Stephanie Meyer) He wasn't happy about their being there, but they insisted on coming with him to the place he dissapeared to every summer since third year. Oh boy.

Rose looked at her watch. The bus was moving incredibly more slowly than usual. It finally reached her stop, five miles outside of Volterra. Suddenly, a bright yellow car sped past. She smiled to herself. The scarhead was back. She took off running, and was instantly ahead of the porsche. Ah, the advantages of having a vampire mother.

"So your girlfriend is a Muggle?" asked Ron, leaning forward from the backseat. "Yep," answered Harry. "Shit." Ron was not good at the whole Muggle act like Harry and Hermione were. "Don't worry Ronald," Hermione soothed from the passenger seat. "Harry already said that she knows absolutely everything about our world. Well, aside from the whole Voldemort thing. She kinda already knew that one somehow." "I don't know why," Harry chimed in. "She doesn't like to talk about it."

Rose and her gang of about fifty friends walked down the street. Suddenly, a tall boy named Alec began singing:

"You've got to go and dig those holes,
with broken hands and whithered soles,
emancipated from all you know,
you've got to go and dig those holes"

(The students at the academy (which was an all boys school with one exeption) had to dig one five foot hole each day to build strength, so they made a rap about it)
Soon everybody joined in:

"With two suits, two tokens in hand,
I got no respect cuz I'm the new man,
got my shovel,
shoes full of sand,
check out the tag, the name is Caveman
Dig it uh oh oh,
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh,(yeah)
Dig it uh oh oh,
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh (yeah

Take a bad boy and make him dig 5 feet,
the dirt in these shovels will give us a beat,
okay, you've gotta find somethin' never found before,
if not, we'll just have to dig some more
na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na,
na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Dig it uh oh oh,
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh,(yeah)
Dig it uh oh oh,
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh (yeah)
Your hands may blister,
your muscles stay sore,(Oh yeah)
you wanna break?
knock on the wardens door (Oh yeah)
Dig it uh oh oh,
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh,(yeah)
Dig it uh oh oh,
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh (yeah)
A-R-M-P-I-T]What is that you smellin dog thats me
I don't take showers and I don't brush my teeth
cuz all I do is dig holes eat and sleep
There is no lake,
There is no shade,
There is no place to hide
So just sit and wait to fry
You've got to go and dig those holes
Dig it uh oh oh,
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh,(yeah)
Dig it uh oh oh,
Dig it
Dig it uh oh oh (yeah)
Wake up in the morning before the sun
Keep digging that hole till day is gone
Wake up in the morning before the sun
Keep digging that hole till day is gone
Dig it uh oh oh, yeah
Dig it uh oh oh, yeah
Dig it uh oh oh, yeah
Dig it uh oh oh, yeah"

They usually sang it as they worked, to pass the time. Rose soon split from the group and walked toward her Uncle Fernando's hotel. A raven sat on her window sill. She sat down and opened the letter, confused. The bird flew into the bathroom and lapped some water out of the spigot. When it was finished, the raven perched on the knob of a bedpost.

"Dear Miss Riddle," Rose read. She laughed quietly to herself, the sound like a thousand tinkling silver bells. Her last name was Enzo, not Riddle. Rose continued reading:

"You have been accepted to The Riddle Institute of Magyk for Boys. You will need:
One standard sized cauldron
One wand
Books on varying types of the Dark Arts
Sincerely from your headmaster,
Tom Marvolo Riddle II."

Rose began hyperventilating. This was not good. "Holy effing shit," she whispered, her voice raspy. "Father finally found me."

Rose's real name was not known to many others. She was known, however, as the Gilded Prince, the worst thing that could happen to you while fighting Death Eaters. Rose's real name was Izabella Rosealiea Dixie Erin Tom Marvellina Riddle III, Voldemort's only blood child and next in line to become Dark Lord.

Rose took one last look at her home of Volterra. Readjusting her rucksack against her good shoulder, she began walking down the cobblestone street. She didn't know what she was doing, or where her decision would take her, but she was prepared.
Look out world! Rose is on her way!