Art Imitates LifeTwice

by Liv Tinuviel

Random songfics about various characters, dealing with different subjects, in different genres. My first stab at songfics, I think they fit rather well. Feel free to skip the songs if they bug you. Give it a try...you won't regret it. Promise!

1. Beware of Darkness

Beware of Darkness

George Harrison

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Watch out now, take care
Beware of falling swingers
Dropping all around you
The pain that often mingles
In your fingertips
Beware of darkness

At night, when the sun was down and darkness descended upon the grounds of Hogwarts, when the busy day was over and the complaints of teachers, students, and Ministry officials no longer rang in his ears, when he was left to his own thoughts, Albus Dumbledore became afraid.

Watch out now, take care
Beware of the thoughts that linger
Winding up inside your head
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night

Thoughts lingered, winding back and forth across his mind. Two teenage boys, wands out, a third and a young girl watching helplessly. The girl gets excited; there is a flash of multicolored light, a yell. The youngest of the three boys rounds on another-his brother- and starts shouting. The third turns, runs. Not to be seen for many years.

Beware of sadness
It can hit you
It can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for

Dumbledore dreads the nights, and the memories they bring. He is far too wise to fear the dark: he hasn't for years. It's the memories the darkness uncovers that frighten him. Funny, wasn't darkness supposed to hide things? Well, the mind is a funny place.

Watch out now, take care
Beware of soft shoe shufflers
Dancing down the sidewalks
As each unconscious sufferer
Wanders aimlessly
Beware of Maya

Again, the vision of the third boy, running away, not looking back, and the knowledge of what that boy becomes. Dumbledore sighs and shakes his head: how could he have been so blind?

Watch out now, take care
Beware of greedy leaders
They take you where you should not go
While weeping atlas cedars
They just want to grow, grow and grow
Beware of darkness (beware of darkness)

He was confused. He was sad. He was frightened. Dumbledore, the Only One He Ever Feared, was frightened by the only thing that could frighten him anymore: himself, and the darkness he thought he saw within.