Chords
Meanwhile, Sev went to the Room of Requirement with Valerie and Deborah. On the way he argued with the latter, because the first thing he wanted to do was look at himself in the Mirror of Erised. "Deborah, I love Sirius Black, I have to look after his life," bluntly. "I don't want to spend another minute with uncertainty.What would you think if it were Paul?"
Deborah didn't respond to that.
"For me, Sirius is at the same level as Paul," he continued. "In all likelihood he is going to be Lily's future partner, part of my family, and she has asked me to look at myself.She would do it herself, but she does not possess Clairvoyance.I'm not going to get overwhelmed if I don't see him, we have a lot of time ahead of us to continue changing destiny, but if I see him I'm going to be extremely happy.The best mood to face the afternoon."
"Deborah, Prince is right," Valerie told her patiently. "Don't try to impose your criteria, be more flexible."
"Well yes, a shame," said Sev. "Our first argument, Deborah, and I'm feeling it through the Bond, your anger at me for not getting your way.If you want, I'll go in alone and I won't tell you anything."
"I do want you to tell me," Valerie told him. "I'm going in with you."
"I'm feeling it too, Prince, your anger," Deborah told him, saddened.
"Of course.We are ruining something so beautiful that we had, I'm already about to cry," he said.
"Me too. Come on, forgive me, give me a hug before leaving the passageway."
"Of course, Deborah, damn... with how much I love you…"
They hugged each other crying. Valerie surrounded them both, giving them lots of kisses and cuddles.
(Valerie is perfect to form a threesome with the two of us, she brings the empathy that neither of us have when we collide,) Sev thought. "I'm already stopping feeling your anger.And you, Deborah?"
"I don't feel it at all anymore, Prince, but I do feel a lot of sadness."
"Of course, Deborah... Understand me, I can't leave out anyone I love. You don't understand because I haven't told you what happened this morning between us. I'll just tell you one thing, we spent ten minutes hugging, the best hug I've ever had in my life. And when the training was over we both went back to look for each other to hug each other again."
"Oh…"
"I love him very much, he is as devoted to me as any of you, and for much longer. He's been sorry since last summer, I already told you that yesterday."
"You're right. I'm so sorry, Prince."
"Now I also feel very sad."
"I know what we are going to do," said Valerie. "First we are going to enter the Piano Classroom and we are going to look for the melody of the song.Do you want, Prince?"
"Okay. Do you want it, Deborah?"
"Sure, honey, whatever you want," she replied.
"This way our annoyance goes away and we are in a better mood in case I see something ugly in Erised."
"Come on, let's go, the afternoon is passing us by," Valerie urged them.
They finished climbing to the seventh floor and went to the portrait of Barnabas. They demanded the Piano Classroom and entered.
"Oh… I haven't been here in a long time," said Sev.
"A week, sweetheart," Valerie told him.
"Only a week?"
"Less, last Sunday night."
"It seemed like a month to me.This Time-Turner thing is horrible," he complained.
"We left the piano open, a mistake."
"Because that night we weren't in the mood to even close it."
"The displeasure that Jack gave us," Valerie remembered.
"Well yes, and I wanted to escape from everything."
"Come on, don't remember that now. I didn't remember it, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you to come here. Sit on the bench."
Sev and Deborah sat on the bench.
"Are you better now?" Valerie asked them.
"A little better," Sev responded.
"Me too," said Deborah.
"Let's make music, you'll see how quickly it will pass," Valerie continued. "Music connects directly with emotions and is very healing, a song can change your mood in a few seconds.I'm going to give you the first note of the Clanship Bond melody, Prince, and you have to find it on the keyboard."
"Go ahead."
Valerie sang the first note of the melody, Sev tried several until he found it.
"That one, that one.I'm going with the second one," Valerie said.
The same, and so on until he had all of the first phrase.
"Do you have the sequence?" she asked.
"I do," he replied.
"Now play them with rhythm, even with one finger."
He did it, it came out the first time.
"You are the best!" Valerie exclaimed. "Give me a good snog."
They gave it to each other.
"Now you'll have to find the fingering," she proposed.
"Sure, but I'll do that another day, that's very boring," said Sev.
"Okay, let's go with the second phrase."
The same.
"Now play it in its entirety, with rhythm."
He did it the first time.
"How wonderful the cave ritual!" Valerie exclaimed. "We are going to be the band that learns to play instruments and compose songs the fastest."
"We are going to have a serious problem, Valerie, we didn't think about it," he said.
"Yes, I have thought about it. Electrical instruments."
"That is."
"It will be necessary to demand a space with an electricity generator and fuel for it. We will find out in summer how to use it."
"You think about everything, Valerie."
"Of course, it's my dream. Hit it again."
He did it.
"Very good, now look for the variation of the Bond as a Couple," she proposed.
"By myself?"
"Yes, on your own, that way you learn to play songs by ear on your own. Then you're going to have to teach Andrew."
"Boof… too many things to teach Andrew."
They laughed.
"What I told you, doing his dirty work," Valerie continued. "But if he takes guitar lessons in the summer and you don't take bass ones, let him teach you the notes on the bass, they are like on the guitar."
"Brilliant. Finally a balanced exchange."
"It will never be balanced, Prince, you kick him a hundred times."
They laughed again.
"You are fantastic, Valerie, you have already put us in a good mood."
"Music, music. Come on, get the variation. Try to do it directly with rhythm, that's how it's done, so as not to get lost."
Sev tried it, it cost him much less than he expected.
"What I was telling you, a hundred kicks!" she exclaimed. "What an ear you have!"
They laughed again.
"Now play one after the other without losing the rhythm," she suggested.
He did it the first time.
When he finished Valerie told him, "Go on, go on, link again."
He did it several times.
"We already have half a song," she said. "Verse or chorus."
"It could also be just like that," Sev suggested. "'Wish you were here' does not have a verse and a chorus."
"True, it doesn't have them, but it has an introduction and a bridge, and the second part is different from the first, it is even more complicated. It is a song that was first lyrics and then music."
"Like the Bonds."
"Of course, the lyrics of 'Wish you were here' also rhyme and have a rhythm like spells, they lend themselves to being set to music," Valerie explained.
"True."
"But it is not the typical catchy song, it is very strange that it is so famous. We are very fortunate, in the past decade and in this one, the best music of all time is being produced, many new styles, very original, for all tastes. And what we have left to see, because what we saw in the Mirror may not have been invented yet and it was also a premonition, yours, Prince, perhaps we will invent it."
"Oh…"
"Come on, look for the chords," she proposed. "I'll tell you how.You have to locate where the beat of the melody goes.The first one is easy, it starts a tempo."
"What does a tempo mean?"
"That begins at the beat. One, two, three, four… boom. Like the first part of 'Wish you were here'."
"Sure."
"Is the first note a white or black key?" Valerie asked.
"White."
"Does the melody have black keys?"
"It does," Sev replied.
"More black than white?"
"No, only two black ones."
"So I composed it with easy notes," she said. "Wonderful, my absolute pitch."
"What is absolute pitch?"
"That you know the name of the note you sing without comparing it with an instrument. It is a gift from birth, impossible to learn."
"Oh…"
"Very good, look for the three three-note chords that you could form with the first note of the melody and two others, respecting the ones you play in the rest of the melody," Valerie explained. "Do you understand me?"
"Of course. "
"With your left."
Sev did it, he looked for the three chords.
"You got them?" she asked.
"I got them."
"Now let's look for the next beat of the melody, I'll help you. Play while I sing, I'll give you the entry."
They did it. Valerie clapped each time, the third time she stopped. "Do you have the note for the third clap?"
"Of course."
"Does it match any of the chords you were looking for?"
"it does," he replied.
"More than one?"
"Not just one."
"Very good, that's your chord for the first bar," she said. "Now let's go with the fifth clap."
They did it again.
"Do you have it?" she asked.
"I do."
"Does it match the first chord?"
"It doesn't," Sev replied.
"Then you have to change the chord in the second bar. Look for the three again."
He did it, he looked for the three.
"Let's go with the seventh clap," Valerie said.
They repeated it.
"Does it match any chord you were looking for?" she asked.
"Yes, two."
"Well, we have a choice! Play the first chord and one of the other two in a row."
Sev did it.
"Do you like the way it sounds?" Valerie asked.
"I do."
"Try the other combination."
He tried.
"Do you like this one better?" she asked him.
"It sounds weirder, but yes, I like it better, I like that it sounds weird."
"Great!" out loud. "Me too! Breakgrounder! We're going to rock it! With my melodies and your chords. What a dumbbell, not even Deborah's in the mirror."
They laughed.
"Deborah, are you getting bored?" Sev asked her.
"Not at all, Prince, I love seeing you play and having recovered the feeling of the Bond."
"Give me a kiss, come on, pretty."
They kissed very sweetly.
"Oh... how cute, they have already reconciled..." said Valerie, excited. "They have had their first argument as lovers.Those who fight desire each other."
They separated laughing, Valerie guffawed.
"How true.The only huge fight I ever had with Lily was the first time I got horny with her," Sev remembered.
"Oh..." Deborah said, amazed. "And what came first, getting angry or getting horny?"
"Getting angry, I had been angry all day. I almost threw myself at her neck like a vampire."
"Wow... And why didn't you do it?"
"Because the heat caught me by surprise, I wish I had," he answered. "It didn't go away in half an hour, while we yelled at each other non-stop."
"What a mess…"
"It turned me a lot that she challenged me, I had never seen her like that. I lost the argument."
"And you reconciled?" she asked.
"Yes, after another type of combat that I don't want to remember. I fell into depression for two weeks."
"And when was that?"
"At the beginning of November," Sev replied.
"Have you never gotten horny with Lily until November of last year?" very surprised.
"No never. I only adored her, I didn't desire her. I kept the same feeling as in my childhood."
"Wow... almost sixteen years old," Deborah was amazed. "Platonic love."
"What's that?"
"Unattainable and eternal."
"Sure…"
"Come on, you're getting nostalgic," said Valerie. "You got it, right?Chords in alternating odd strokes.For the moment at one and five, the next at nine.Play and count."
Sev did it. "I have the note."
"Well, look for the eleventh one now."
He did it. "That's it."
"Look for a chord that has those two notes."
"There are also two."
"Then play the two combinations in a row, of the two you already had with each of the new ones," Valerie explained.
Sev did it.
"Which one do you like more now?" she asked.
"The first."
"Bingo! Me too. You have one bar left for the phrase, now you know how it goes, finish."
He did it.
"Great.Go for the second phrase," she said.
They continued like this until they completed the four phrases, two per incantation, with four chords each, sixteen in total.
"We have it," Valerie said. "Now you have to meet Cecile one day and have her tell you the names of the chords, so that Andrew can practice the sequence in the summer, and in September he can teach it to you on bass.Before the month ends we'll have a song."
"Great."
"Play it, and I'll sing. Just play the chords, don't play the melody. I give you the entry."
They did it, it came out the first time.
"We are the best!" she exclaimed loudly, jumping out of joy. "Let's go to the Mirror, I'll close the piano now."
They came out, demanded the 'place to hide things' and entered.
"Let's go running."
They did it, they ran to the Mirror of Erised.
"Come on, Prince, look at you," said Valerie. "Quickie, eh?The afternoon is passing us by."
(How anxious she is, how cute.)
Sev looked at himself, he saw the large family of warriors. In the center, next to him, Lily and Lauren, and on Lily's side, was Sirius, with Sev's red-haired, black-eyed girl, and Lily carried a smaller, dark-haired, light-eyed child in her arms. Sev his daughter with Lauren and she a brunette boy with green eyes but with curly hair like Sirius.
Towards a corner, next to Alice and Frank and their oldest son, were James and Mary, with a boy the same age as the Longbottoms, without any scar, and another girl the age of the other warriors' children. Pettigrew was missing. Otherwise, everyone Sev knew personally and who were part of the Army and Lucius' family also appeared.
"Well..." Valerie told him. "You don't need to tell us anything, you already look excited.How many children do you have now?"
"Five, one with each of us and two with you, Valerie, the youngest is still a baby."
"How many do I have?"
"At the moment, three," Sev replied.
"Good!" out loud.
"And not with the fifth one?" Deborah asked him.
"No, not with the fifth one, she is alone."
"Who is the fifth?" Valerie asked.
"It's still a secret," he replied.
"Ah... I know…"
"Well, if you know, be quiet."
"What does she look like?" Deborah asked.
"I'll show you, Deborah. Let's go."