Hallelujah, a harry potter fanfic

"I've heard there was a secret chord

That David played, and it pleased the Lord

But you don't really care for music, do you?

It goes like this

The fourth, the fifth

The minor fall, the major lift

The baffled king composing Hallelujah"

When Dorcas Meadowes' body was found, hanging slightly off her bed in her flat in London, the Wizard Papers went wild. She was killed personally by Lord Voldemort.

"Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to a kitchen chair

She broke your throne, and she cut your hair

And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah"

Sirius Black ran swiftly down the halls of Remus's house deep in the forest. Remus broke down into tears.

"Baby I have been here before

I know this room, I've walked this floor

I used to live alone before I knew you.

I've seen your flag on the marble arch

Love is not a victory march

It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah"

Her funeral precession was short, but it lasted for what felt like a thousand years. Remus was mute.

"There was a time when you let me know

What's really going on below

But now you never show it to me, do you?

And remember when I moved in you

The holy dove was moving too

And every breath we drew was Hallelujah"

Her body was lowered into the ground and all her friends watched. James and Sirius could not retrieve Remus from his silence.

"Maybe there's a God above

But all I've ever learned from love

Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you

It's not a cry you can hear at night

It's not somebody who has seen the light

It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah"

Soon after, the McKinnons turned up dead, Alice and Frank went mad. Remus hadn't spoken in months.

"You say I took the name in vain

I don't even know the name

But if I did, well, really, what's it to you?

There's a blaze of light in every word

It doesn't matter which you heard

The holy or the broken Hallelujah"

And right when Remus was finally opening up, Harry Potter was orphaned. Sirius Black, soon, imprisoned.

"I did my best, it wasn't much

I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch

I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

And even though it all went wrong

I'll stand before the Lord of Song

With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah"

With that, Remus Lupin was no more.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah