Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.

Puppets

The twirling dancers on the gorgeous floor are strung along

By both the music and the cheer of the new holiday approaching rapidly

The dancers get fast and the swirling gets wider as students

Are strung by the strings the music plays

Faster and faster, never stopping and never ending

The irony of the situation is all too apparent for the ones on the sidelines

The bright students, the new generation of witches and wizards

Are being enchanted by the music

Following the commands they stop, slow down, or go faster

Depending on what the music tells them

Dancing and dancing until finally the give in to exhaust

They go to the little tables of refreshment and food to give them energy

To dance again and again

The pretty girls, all dolled up for this night, gossip and gloat

About the boys they brought and all goes well

Well, except a hex or two but what can be expected?

A night without magic is uncomprehendable to some

The enchantment and charm of magic seduces the students

Especially on nights of cheer and the chaperones know this all too well

Every scene the night plays triggers memories of youth and joy in their heads

The teachers and adults know the puppetry the students are under

From being there themselves, once lads and ladies coming under one ceiling

As puppets of the music, and make note that once you fall under its spell

You will never escape until you dance the night away or

Until fate beckons the you away or

Until a hex sends panic throughout the puppets shattering the spell

After all they can never escape the enchantment of the music

The little puppets they are, will never leave the floor

Just like the students and teachers are the puppets to life and will never leave it

Unless they die

After all, Puppets are puppets no matter what they all fall under life's spell

Living out what life throws in the puppets' way

The puppet show will never end

My puppets are dancing, watching, and even reading

Whether I throw deaths, pranks, hexes, and beings tainted with evil their way

They will always act out my show

The show must go on after all.