(A spotlight hits Sirius Black, who transforms from a dog to a human)
BLACK
Freedom is mine. The earth is still.
I feel the wind. I breathe again.
And the sky clears
The world is waking.
Drink from the pool. How clean the taste.
Never forget the years, the waste.
Nor forgive them
For what they've done.
They are the guilty - everyone.
The day begins...
And now lets see
What this new world
Will do for me!
(Stage goes black, brightens on Hogsmeade with several people milling about. There are many wanted posters with large pictures of Black's face. Black enters. People notice immediately that he looks like the person in the picture. They start whispering to one another.)
BLACK
Now every door is closed to me
Another jail.
Another key.
Another chain
For when I come to any town
They see my face
And they find the mark of Cain
In their eyes I see their fear
`We do not want you here.'
And now I know how freedom feels
The Ministry always at your heels
A criminal!
(He rips a poster from where it is hanging.)
This piece of paper in my hand
That makes me cursed throughout the land
A criminal!
Like a cur I walk the street,
The dirt beneath their feet.
(He sits down outside Hogwarts castle. Professor Dumbledore comes out of the castle.)
DUMBLEDORE
Come in, Sir, for you are weary,
And the night is cold out there.
Though our lives are very humble
What we have, we have to share.
There is wine here to revive you.
There is bread to make you strong,
There's a bed to rest till morning,
Rest from pain, and rest from wrong.
BLACK
He let me eat my fill
I had the lion's share
The gobletin my hand
Cost twice what I had earned
In all those nineteen years -
That lifetime of despair
And yet he trusted me.
The old fool trusted me -
He'd done his bit of good
I played the grateful serf
And thanked him like I should
But when the hall was still,
I got up in the night.
Took the goblet
Took my flight!
(Taking the goblet, he runs off, but is brought back by Filch.)
FILCH
Tell the Professor your story
Let us see if he's impressed
You were lodging here last night
You were the good Professor's guest.
And then, out of Christian goodness
When he learned about your plight
You maintain he made a present of this goblet.
DUMBLEDORE
That is right.
But my friend you left so early
Surely something slipped your mind
(Dumbledore gives Black two silver candlesticks)
You forgot I gave these also
Would you leave the best behind?
So, dear Filch, you may release him
For this man has spoken true
I commend you for your duty
And God's blessing go with you.
(Filch leaves. Dumbledore addresses Black. He gestures out the window to Buckbeak.)
As I show you this, my brother
See in this some higher plan
You must use this precious escape
To become an honest man
By the witness of the martyrs
By the Passion and the Blood
God has raised you out of darkness
I have bought your soul for God!
(Dumbledore exits.)
WHAT HAVE I DONE (BLACK'S SOLILOQUY)
BLACK
What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
Become a thief in the night,
Become a dog on the run
(A/N mehehe)
And have I fallen so far,
And is the hour so late
That nothing remains but the cry of my hate,
The cries in the dark that nobody hears,
Here where I stand at the turning of the years?
If there's another way to go
I missed it twenty long years ago
My life was ruined by Pettigrew's frame
They gave me a number and murdered my name
When they chained me and left me for dead
Because that stupid rat Pettigrew fled.
Yet why did I allow that man
To touch my soul and teach me love?
He treated me like any other
He gave me his trust
He called me brother
My life he claims for God above
Can such things be?
For I had come to hate the world
This world that always hated me
Take an eye for an eye!
Turn your heart into stone!
This is all I have lived for!
This is all I have known!
One word from him and I'd be back
Beneath the lash, upon the rack
Instead he offers me my freedom
I feel my shame inside me like a knife
He told me that I have a soul,
How does he know?
What spirit comes to move my life?
Is there another way to go?
I am reaching, but I fall
And the night is closing in
And I stare into the void
To the whirlpool of my sin
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Sirius Black
Sirius Black is nothing now
Another story must begin!
(He gets on Buckbeak and flies away, Curtain falls)
BLACK
Freedom is mine. The earth is still.
I feel the wind. I breathe again.
And the sky clears
The world is waking.
Drink from the pool. How clean the taste.
Never forget the years, the waste.
Nor forgive them
For what they've done.
They are the guilty - everyone.
The day begins...
And now lets see
What this new world
Will do for me!
(Stage goes black, brightens on Hogsmeade with several people milling about. There are many wanted posters with large pictures of Black's face. Black enters. People notice immediately that he looks like the person in the picture. They start whispering to one another.)
BLACK
Now every door is closed to me
Another jail.
Another key.
Another chain
For when I come to any town
They see my face
And they find the mark of Cain
In their eyes I see their fear
`We do not want you here.'
And now I know how freedom feels
The Ministry always at your heels
A criminal!
(He rips a poster from where it is hanging.)
This piece of paper in my hand
That makes me cursed throughout the land
A criminal!
Like a cur I walk the street,
The dirt beneath their feet.
(He sits down outside Hogwarts castle. Professor Dumbledore comes out of the castle.)
DUMBLEDORE
Come in, Sir, for you are weary,
And the night is cold out there.
Though our lives are very humble
What we have, we have to share.
There is wine here to revive you.
There is bread to make you strong,
There's a bed to rest till morning,
Rest from pain, and rest from wrong.
BLACK
He let me eat my fill
I had the lion's share
The gobletin my hand
Cost twice what I had earned
In all those nineteen years -
That lifetime of despair
And yet he trusted me.
The old fool trusted me -
He'd done his bit of good
I played the grateful serf
And thanked him like I should
But when the hall was still,
I got up in the night.
Took the goblet
Took my flight!
(Taking the goblet, he runs off, but is brought back by Filch.)
FILCH
Tell the Professor your story
Let us see if he's impressed
You were lodging here last night
You were the good Professor's guest.
And then, out of Christian goodness
When he learned about your plight
You maintain he made a present of this goblet.
DUMBLEDORE
That is right.
But my friend you left so early
Surely something slipped your mind
(Dumbledore gives Black two silver candlesticks)
You forgot I gave these also
Would you leave the best behind?
So, dear Filch, you may release him
For this man has spoken true
I commend you for your duty
And God's blessing go with you.
(Filch leaves. Dumbledore addresses Black. He gestures out the window to Buckbeak.)
As I show you this, my brother
See in this some higher plan
You must use this precious escape
To become an honest man
By the witness of the martyrs
By the Passion and the Blood
God has raised you out of darkness
I have bought your soul for God!
(Dumbledore exits.)
WHAT HAVE I DONE (BLACK'S SOLILOQUY)
BLACK
What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?
Become a thief in the night,
Become a dog on the run
(A/N mehehe)
And have I fallen so far,
And is the hour so late
That nothing remains but the cry of my hate,
The cries in the dark that nobody hears,
Here where I stand at the turning of the years?
If there's another way to go
I missed it twenty long years ago
My life was ruined by Pettigrew's frame
They gave me a number and murdered my name
When they chained me and left me for dead
Because that stupid rat Pettigrew fled.
Yet why did I allow that man
To touch my soul and teach me love?
He treated me like any other
He gave me his trust
He called me brother
My life he claims for God above
Can such things be?
For I had come to hate the world
This world that always hated me
Take an eye for an eye!
Turn your heart into stone!
This is all I have lived for!
This is all I have known!
One word from him and I'd be back
Beneath the lash, upon the rack
Instead he offers me my freedom
I feel my shame inside me like a knife
He told me that I have a soul,
How does he know?
What spirit comes to move my life?
Is there another way to go?
I am reaching, but I fall
And the night is closing in
And I stare into the void
To the whirlpool of my sin
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Sirius Black
Sirius Black is nothing now
Another story must begin!
(He gets on Buckbeak and flies away, Curtain falls)