Amy: Pffft! Of course you weren't going to be a swan. The transformation wasn't for Sirius so much as it was for Moony because of Sirius.
Harry: (singsongs) Swans mate for li-ife...
Amy: Yes, well, that's the POINT, isn't it? Sirius would have been pissed for that; would have said you were too young to think that you couldn't have loved again. And that happens to be a MYTH; swans will even "divorce" if it suits them.
Harry: So, go ahead and show her.
Amy: Harry, I don't DO songfic.
Harry: It isn't songfic. It's just the song that you think of when you try to imagine what my animagus form would have been in that story. Something that could have kept up with Moony, yet isn't so rare I'd have ended up in the damn zoo every time, and isn't tethered to earth, which you think would have been important for me, healing.
Amy: I'm sooo embarassed. Isis, it's him, not me, making me do this. I was going to link the lyrics somewhere but can't find them anywhere on the web, so, here it is, the best reconstruction I can make of these song lyrics (really lovely piece, recorded by a group called Technical Difficulties)
"Wolf and Hawk" by Sheila Willis
I saw a hawk today Tethered close, tethered fast His eyes did glitter rage Orbs of green molten glass How he shrieked, how he tore at me How he tried to fly I knew the ties of rope would never hold No bond would keep him down Tell me why you throw your life into the sky Yet alone, you're always alone
I saw a wolf today /I saw a hawk today With golden braid upon his sleeve /Tethered close, tethered fast His eyes did glitter rage /His eyes did glitter rage The color of a stormy sea /Orbs of green molten glass He lives behind a wall of stone /How he shrieked, how he tore at me Each one carefully placed /How he tried to fly I know no matter how hard I try /I knew the ties of rope would never hold I'll never see within /No bond would keep him down Tell me why behind walls of stone you hide /Tell me why you throw your life into the sky Yet alone, you're always alone /Yet alone, you're always alone
Oh, my hawk Tomorrow the battle starts I'm afraid Will you fight at my side? Can it be, a teaming of you and me? Can I trust? Dare I trust?
Oh, my wolf Tomorrow will come I'm afraid Will you let me stay? Can it be, a teaming of you and me? Can I trust? Dare I trust?
(Twinned-voice verse repeats, with third voice over:) ...So they sailed together This unlikely pair The wolf, tied to the earth The hawk, to the air But not alone, you're never alone
Harry: There, that wasn't so bad, was it?
Amy: (furious) She's sorry she ever asked! I just gave her SONG LYRICS to explain how I felt, okay? How dorky is that?! GAH!
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Harry nudges Amanuensis...
Date: 2003-08-02 02:10 pm (UTC)Amanuensis: No! It's too hokey!
Harry: Not as hokey as a swan would have been.
Amy: Pffft! Of course you weren't going to be a swan. The transformation wasn't for Sirius so much as it was for Moony because of Sirius.
Harry: (singsongs) Swans mate for li-ife...
Amy: Yes, well, that's the POINT, isn't it? Sirius would have been pissed for that; would have said you were too young to think that you couldn't have loved again. And that happens to be a MYTH; swans will even "divorce" if it suits them.
Harry: So, go ahead and show her.
Amy: Harry, I don't DO songfic.
Harry: It isn't songfic. It's just the song that you think of when you try to imagine what my animagus form would have been in that story. Something that could have kept up with Moony, yet isn't so rare I'd have ended up in the damn zoo every time, and isn't tethered to earth, which you think would have been important for me, healing.
Amy: I'm sooo embarassed. Isis, it's him, not me, making me do this. I was going to link the lyrics somewhere but can't find them anywhere on the web, so, here it is, the best reconstruction I can make of these song lyrics (really lovely piece, recorded by a group called Technical Difficulties)
"Wolf and Hawk" by Sheila Willis
I saw a hawk today
Tethered close, tethered fast
His eyes did glitter rage
Orbs of green molten glass
How he shrieked, how he tore at me
How he tried to fly
I knew the ties of rope would never hold
No bond would keep him down
Tell me why you throw your life into the sky
Yet alone, you're always alone
I saw a wolf today /I saw a hawk today
With golden braid upon his sleeve /Tethered close, tethered fast
His eyes did glitter rage /His eyes did glitter rage
The color of a stormy sea /Orbs of green molten glass
He lives behind a wall of stone /How he shrieked, how he tore at me
Each one carefully placed /How he tried to fly
I know no matter how hard I try /I knew the ties of rope would never hold
I'll never see within /No bond would keep him down
Tell me why behind walls of stone you hide /Tell me why you throw your life into the sky
Yet alone, you're always alone /Yet alone, you're always alone
Oh, my hawk
Tomorrow the battle starts
I'm afraid
Will you fight at my side?
Can it be, a teaming of you and me?
Can I trust? Dare I trust?
Oh, my wolf
Tomorrow will come
I'm afraid
Will you let me stay?
Can it be, a teaming of you and me?
Can I trust? Dare I trust?
(Twinned-voice verse repeats, with third voice over:)
...So they sailed together
This unlikely pair
The wolf, tied to the earth
The hawk, to the air
But not alone, you're never alone
Harry: There, that wasn't so bad, was it?
Amy: (furious) She's sorry she ever asked! I just gave her SONG LYRICS to explain how I felt, okay? How dorky is that?! GAH!