whispers in the walls

Title: "Whispers in the Walls" (A ballad for the Chamber of Secrets, sung in the style of a haunted Hogwarts hymn) [Verse 1] In the castle’s heart, where the shadows creep, A serpent stirs from a thousand-year sleep. Pipes hiss secrets, cold as the lake, A voice in the walls makes the bravestone quake. Harry hears it, a hiss in his mind, Parseltongue calling, leaving fear behind. Ginny’s quill trembles, ink turns to blood, The diary drinks her, a slow crimson flood. [Chorus] Open the Chamber, let the monster crawl, Echoes of Slytherin thunder through the hall. Basilisk eyes in the dark lie in wait, One glance to stone, one breath to seal fate. Whispers in the walls, they’re calling your name, In the Chamber of Secrets, nothing’s the same. [Verse 2] Ron’s wand cracks, a spell gone awry, Lockhart’s smile fades when the ceiling falls from the sky. Through the tunnel, where the bones lie deep, A girl’s faint heartbeat is all they can keep. Hermione’s frozen, a mirror her shield, Petrified silence on the library field. Fawkes sings sorrow, tears heal the wound, A sword from a hat when the hope’s nearly doomed. [Chorus] Open the Chamber, let the monster crawl, Echoes of Slytherin thunder through the hall. Basilisk eyes in the dark lie in wait, One glance to stone, one breath to seal fate. Whispers in the walls, they’re calling your name, In the Chamber of Secrets, nothing’s the same. [Bridge] Tom Riddle smiles, a ghost made of lies, A boy’s stolen years in a diary’s disguise. “Kill the spare,” but the spare won’t break, Love’s old magic makes the dark soul shake. [Final Chorus] Close the Chamber, let the serpent fall, Gryffindor’s courage answers the call. Fawkes rises high, with a phoenix’s flame, The Heir is banished, never to reign. No more whispers in the walls, the silence is won, In the Chamber of Secrets, the light has begun. [Outro] Double trouble’s over, the cauldron is cold, Hogwarts stands tall, its story retold.