Songs and Harry

Ten points to amberg93 for the suggestion. You can still complete the class.

Songs and Harry

In this class, I would like you to find two songs that you think represent certain scenes in the HP series. For example, I could choose the song "Can't Fight the Moonlight" to represent the scene where Lupin changes into a werewolf.

Once you have chosen the songs and scenes, write at least 100 words explaining your choice and why you think the song fits with the scene.

Bonus: Create a graphic that represents both the song and the scene for either of your choices.

Song & Explanation One: 40 points
Song & Explanation Two: 40 points
Bonus: 20 points

Total points available: 100

Remember to cite any sources, and no copy/pasting!

Songs and Harry
By: KatieBellaTrix

Song One: I would choose the scene where Hermione is coming down the stairs before the Yule Ball to play my first song, Beautiful by Christina Aguilera. This song has lyrics that teach you to love youself and not let words and rumors bother you. It is fitting for this seen becasue everybody sees Hermione as brainy and not pretty which can probably have a negative effect on the self-esteem. Especially because just a few years before, she was called a Mudblood by Malfoy and she really seemed to take those words to heart. Also, in Beautiful, it tries to empower other people to love themselves and be confident and that is a very Hermione-like thing to do.

Song Two: I would choose to play I Want You by Faith Hill for the scene in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when Harry and Ginny start going out. I could see the director of the movie doing a sort of montage of scenes with them together and I think this song would fit it perfectly because it tells of a realtionship and friendship not just love. Since Harry and Ginny are so close I could see them as the two people this song describes. They are very attracted to each other but its also more then just an inital attractionm, its a real friendship and romance.

Lean on Me by Bill Withers
how Hermione and Ron helps Harry find the horcuxs

Because it represents that Hermione and Ron help Harry with his tasks like defeating Voldermort. They help him lighten the weight and makes Harry feel better in tough situations 'cause they're always there for him. In the song it says

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load

which kind of connects and relates to Harry's two friends because they are always trying to help him (throughout the HP series) and even though Harry tries to tell them to go away so they won't get hurt, they still come and help him 'share his load' of destiny
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Gone Away by the Offspring
the scene where Fred dies


I think this songs fit the scene because it talks about someone dying and the singer is singing that the person that 'gone away' to heaven and it's really unfair. In the scene that Fred died (in DH) Ron, Percy, and especially George gets a huge blow by it. For example, Ron tries to run after the Death Eater that killed him. They all want Fred to come back and they think it is not fair. The song talks about missing someone you loose and I am sure that George really misses his twin and the rest of the family really want him back.

The first song I’m choosing is Smash Mouth’s ‘Everyday Superhero.’ I think that it relates well to the message Harry is trying to convey during the meeting inside the Hog’s Head in OotP. The students that will make up most of the DA start pestering our protagonist about everything he’s done over the years. Good things, of course. Harry attempts to convince them all that he’s really not that great (“just your average, ordinary, everyday” chosen one). It’s not his fault he was marked as a child and has been put in situations where he was forced to try “to save the world” but he was “never really sure” about any of it. “That’s really all I am…”

I’m sure the second song I chose will delight the Remus/Tonks fans here at HE. ‘Come Down To Me’ by Saving Jane spells out what’s going through Tonks’s head during HBP. She wants to be with Remus and doesn’t care that he is poor, old, and dangerous. A verse in this song helps to get this across: “You’re beautiful just the way you are. And I love it all, every line and every scar. And I wish that I could make you see, this is where you ought to be. Come down to me.” In HPB when everyone is gathered in the hospital wing Tonks bursts out, “You see! She still wants to be with him, even though he’s been bitten! She doesn’t’ care!” we see her feelings. And Remus…well… “then you’re catchin’ my eye and just maybe you’re thinkin’ what I’m thinkin’ too.” There is also a line that could be referring to werewolves (“When the light falls on your face don’t let it change you”) which makes the song even more fitting for their relationship.

Sources: my iPod
OotP
HBP

Bonus:



I saw that pic of Harry and couldn't resist...:D

Song One - Broken by Seether feat Amy Lee.
Snape's memories of him and Lily.


I chose this song because it reflects perfectly on Snape's feelings for Lily, as seen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The lyrics seem to be everything that Snape is feeling and has felt. His love for Lily, her death, it leaves him broken completely it is something which he never gets over. I thought of this song immediatly when reding the chapter in Deathly Halows, where Harry is watching Sape's memories of Lily and him together.For example:



I needn't say anymore on how perfect this song fits the scene. It is as if JK Rowling has this song in mind when writing this specfic scene.





Song Two - The Ghost of You - My Chemical Romance.
Tonks rushing off to find Remus/join the fight.

When i listen to this song, i think of the moment Tonks discovers that Remus is fighting Antonin Dolohov, in that moment, her love for him, pushes her forward, to be with him, to be at his side. It gives a sense of, if Remus died Tonks couldnt live without him, even though they have a very young son. When we later discover the death of both Remus and Tonks, i feel as though the song takes over, and the emotions in the song are exacty what Tonk's would have felt. For example:



Tonks's love for Remus drove her to fight by his side, to fight for a future for her son, her heart belonged to Remus, when he died, she died too. The song is about the not being able to go on should the loved one die, and in tonks case it proved true.




lyrics from windows media player and my head =D

Song 1: What Hurts the Most - Rascal Flatts

I choose this song because I believe it fits perfectly in with almost the whole chapter of the Prince’s Tale. It fits how Snape felt about Lily and how he never got a chance to say what he was feeling about her and all the regret that he carries with him because of that. Part of the song says:

And what hurts the most
Is being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
what could have been
And not seein’ that lovin you
Is what I was trying to do.

That perfectly coins how Snape was feeling for so long and how he had to have felt looking back at the situation really the rest of the song fits so amazingly well that I wouldn’t be surprised to find songfics about Snape and his feelings for Lily everywhere. That’s just how well it fits in with his feelings, it’s almost impossible to have to say anything about it because if you read through all the lyrics you will see exactly what I’m talking about.

Song 2:Just So You Know- Jesse McCartney

I choose this song because I think it could easily fit when Lupin realized that he had feelings for Tonks. The way it’s all about how he shouldn’t love her, and that’s honestly the way Lupin does feel as we learn in book seven. He thinks he’s a bad thing for Tonks but yet he still loves her. Part of the song says:

I shouldn't love you, but I want to
I just can't turn away
I shouldn't see you, but I can't move
I can't look away

And once more I think that perfectly says what he had to be feeling after he realized his feelings for Tonks, that although he feels he shouldn’t love her he does anyway. Also the song talks about letting them know, as Lupin did but also leaving, another Lupin move. So more then just that moment, it represents basically their whole relationship.


((I suggested this? XD Wow I don't even remember XD))

songs of harry potter

part 1, everytime we touch by cascada

i choose this song to sibolize harry and hermione ( and sorry for the people who dont like this ship ) XD well ya i think its great because i think they do have a bond like no other and for example:

" your arms are my castle, your heart my sky,
they wash away tears that i cry,
the good and the bad times we stay through than more,
you make me rise when i fall..."

i dunno i chose this because i think it really simbolizes them.
bonus:

part 2, Girl Next door by Saving Jane

I choose this to show how cho get originally jellous of hermione when harry alwas has to do something with her... ( like the DA admistion thing at the hogs head. ) example,

" maybe im just jelious i just want to hit her,
secretly i want her if my boyfriend wants to date her..."

bonus: OR

ya well that that hope i hey an "O" XD!
this essay was done by Hermione

cited sourses, i got the name and artest of the songs from youtube.com

(it's hard to think when u stayed up almost 24 hours and running)

Song one My wish by Rascal Flatts

I think it fits how everyone around harry (but the Dursley's) want him to succeed in everything that he does. Against all odds and such. In saying this I am excluding the death eaters and junk they don't count. Especially in the battle at Hogwarts everyone was willing to help harry to achieve his goal in the castle. More then once I might add. Really he just had so much support behind him and really that is how I feel the song is really about. Supporting the one or ones you love. Even if that means facing death right in the face. Some things are just meant to be.


Song 2 Big Girls Don't Cry by Fergie

I think this song resembles as much as I hate to say it when Ron left Hermione and Harry. It was a big blow to Hermione because she loved him and he just up and left not only Harry but her. In the song it says a lot about how your not supposed to cry when you get older. It also teaches that if you are going to cry try not to show it. Thats exactly what Hermione did. As upset as she was she only tried to show it at night when she thought no one would hear. I think she was playing out Fergie's words almost exactly.

Song one:
Figure 09(Linkin Park):When in the end of The movie order of the phoenix when voldemort goes inside harry and trying to control his mind and see his memories etc.
that is because the lyrics says:"And now you've become a part of me you'll always be right here,you've become a part of me you'll always be my fear.I can't seperate myself from what I've done,giving up a part of me,I've let myself become you"And this matches this part of the movie that voldemort became a part of harry and voldemort is always what harry is afraid of,and that he let himself become voldemort his worst fear.


Song two:
Haunted(Evanescence):Always when i hear this song i feel it was made for harry potter,i feel it is like in the dark forest.so i think the song is good in harry potter and the philosopher/sorcerer stone in the part where harry,ron,hermione and draco goes to the dark forest with hagrid searching for the unicorn,and when harry sees voldemort drinking the unicorn blood and then tries to hurt harry.here is what the song says(i will write a big part because it matches this part):

Long lost words whisper slowly to me
Still can't find what keeps me here
When all this time I've been so hollow inside
I know you're still there

Watching me, wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Fearing you loving you
I won't let you pull me down

Hunting you I can smell you alive
Your heart pounding in my head

And it matches the part because they were hearing voices in the dark forest then they are afraid but keep searching,and they know there is something dangerous out there.And they feel someone or something is watching them.Then they see voldemort drinking the unicorn blood so they knew it was him they were hunting and searching for, draco runs with the dog and leave harry alone.but the part of fearing you loving you dont match,it only matches in one way is that he love his teacher professor quirril and he fears voldemort that lives inside the professor.

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I'm choosing "The Day The World Went Away" by Nine Inch Nails to describe when Harry was in the Chamber of Secrets talking to Tom Riddle. AT first he doesn't really know what to think of this guy and then the connection slowly unfurls. Tom Riddle; not yet Voldemort but damaged and tainted, I think this is what Harry may have thought when he was face to face with Tom. Plus, the idea that this is Voldemort before Harry existed, before he went into 'half-being'. Yeah, I'd say these lyrics describe that whole situation really well.

In Another Life - Ashlee Simpson
For all those moments in which Ginny saw Harry and wanted to be with him and dreamed about how they would be together. And just spending time with him in the Burrow and liking and loving him so much but having to hide that. And then she had to see Harry and Cho together, and she probably she had thought there was no hope for her. But in the end we all know they were meant to be.
Lyrics: http://artists.letssingit.com/ashlee-simpson-lyrics-in-another-life-w8xgtqb

Please Be Mine - Jonas Brothers
This is perfect for Ron. And for him to express his feelings for Hermione. It's just perfect and I think that just by the title you can all see what it's about. And him telling her how much he loves her and wants to be with her. How he will try to be the best boyfriend and they best guy for her.
Lyrics: http://artists.letssingit.com/jonas-brothers-lyrics-please-be-mine-3pqg7r6

Song 1: Untitled- Simple Pan
I think that this song really fits the seen where Snape begs for Lily’s forgiveness after calling her a mudblood. He felt terrible, yet Lily still refused to forgive him. The song is about a mistake, and even though you say sorry, it won’t fix what you did wrong. The song also is really great for when Snape found out that it was by his words that Lily was dead, and when he realized that it was his fault she was gone.

So I try to hold onto a time when nothing mattered
And I can't explain what happened
And I can't erase the things that I've done
No I can't

The stanza of the song describes how Snape tried to go back, and find Dumbledore after he found out that Voldemort was planning to kill Lily. ‘To a time when nothing mattered’ is when he and Lily had an uncomplicated friendship, and ‘And I can’t erase the things that I’ve done’ is could refer to the rift in their friendship that was created by Snape in a fit of humiliation.

Song 2: Oblivion- 30 seconds to Mars
This song is the perfect song for Harry’s battle against Voldemort. The battle between Voldemort and Harry was really dreaded by Harry, because he thought that he was going to die, then and there. I think that Harry knew that it was his duty to fight Voldemort, because he was the only one with a fair chance, but at the same time he didn’t want to let go of his life yet.

Under the burning sun
I take a look around
Imagine if this all came down
I'm waiting for the day to come

This stanza is pretty much describing Harry’s feelings towards the way that things were turning out. ‘Imagine if this all came down’ is talking about how it must have felt for him to realize that if he did not fight Voldemort then, his world and the people that he cared about would fall.

Sources: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/30-Seconds-to-Mars/Oblivion.html
http://www.lyrics007.com/Simple%20Plan%20Lyrics/Untitled%20Lyrics.html

Song 1: Lying From You - Linkin Park

I think this song represents how Draco & his parents feel at the beginning of DH. How they pretend to be okay with the death of one of the teachers. But in all actuality they didn't even want the dark lord in their house. They didn't have a choice, so they just put on a front and pretended to be okay with everything that was going on.

"When I pretend everything is what I want it to beI look exactly like what you always wanted to see. When I pretend, I can’t forget about the criminal I am. Stealing second after second just cause I know I can but, I can’t pretend this is the way it’ll stay I’m just (trying to bend the truth) I can’t pretend I’m who you want me to be, so I’m (Lying my way from you)"

Song 2: The Beatles - With a Little Help from My Friends

I think this song describes the emotion between Ron, Hermione and Harry when they first get out of the Ministry of Magic. Just because if it hadn't been for each other they wouldn't have found the horcruxe and gotten it from Umbridge if they hadn't been there to help each other out. It didn't matter what happened at that point as long as they had each other. Even if they did end up having to leave Number Twelve Grimmauld Place.

"What do I do when my love is away?(Does it worry you to be alone?)How do I feel by the end of the day?(Are you sad because you're on your own?)No I get by with a little help from my friends. Mm I get high with a little help from my friends. Mm going to try with a little help from my friends"

Sources: www.azlyrics.com

For my first song I chose "Breaking the Habit" by Linkin Park to represent the moment when Ron walked away from Hermoine and Harry in Deathly Hallows. Through the song you hear of a person who is dealing with an eternal anger that he can't explain. "I don't know what's worth fighting for. Or why I have to scream. I don't know why I instigate and say what I don't mean." There are some memories that haunt him. This is the way Ron seemed to feel to me. He was dealing with an extreme of his jealousy of Harry as well as fighting with things in his past that have hurt him. Finally, in the end he lets go of his struggles. Ron may not have done this in the best way possible, but he certainly did let go all the same.

The second song I chose is one of my favorites. I felt that "You're Gone" by Diamond Rio appropriatly represented the moment where Lily and Severus part ways. The song is more about the ending of a romantic relationship, but I think it applies rather well, anyway. It starts with a man saying something he instantly regrets which becomes the catalyst for the end of the relationship. Through the time that he's with her, he's changed for the better. I think that even though Snape had a lot of room for improvement, he would have been much worse if it weren't for Lily's friendship and love. In the end, while he longed to have her back in his life, I think he was grateful for the good she brought while she was there.

For the first song I choose “Look At Us”-(sorry, don't remember who sings it. And yes, I know it's a strange choice.). I thought this song to fit Hermione and Ron from the beginning of the series to the very end. In the first book, Ron and Hermione where always fighting and saying sort of rude things to each other. Through the rest, you could tell they where going to end up together. And in the last book, they do. I can see Hermione singing this song to Ron.

Everybody believed we would never be
Look at us, up above, we are so in love
Every day in your arms, baby, can't go wrong
We are strong, look at us now


For my second song, I will choose “Blvd. Of Broken Dreams” by Green Day. I think it sort of describes what Harry is going through in the 6th and 7th books. He feels alone, and sort of like he can't trust anybody. He also feels like he is the only person truly grasping the fact that 'he who must not be named' is back and ready to kill.

Twilight Zone- 2 Unlimited
During Harry's fourth year when everyone refused to believe him and Fifth year. The song is about going to the twilight zone where strange things happen as it would feel to Harry. "Party being turned upside down" applying to his friends who have turned against him. "Going to the twilight Zone" applying that his world is going in to chaos.

Original Prankster-Offspring
The title is enough to tell you that I am going to refer to to the James, Lupin, Sirius and Peter when they were young playing pranks on people. I can also refer to Fred, George and Lee as they are also pranksters in their own right.

Otay....Unwritten for the part in the very first book where Harry is on the train going to Hogwarts, beacause, well, he's unwritten right? (pun intended) he dosen't know whats going to happen or even where he's going.I mean he couldn't possibly know whats going to happen to him, right? He's got to make his own choces and is about to opened up a new part in him, let out the wizard in him, and accept this very new world. Plus, he's also going to be SO,SO outlandish in the Dursley's eyes. Man, He's got a lot coming to him. :D

Then, Major Tom. I chose this scene to be his first time on a broomstick, the similarity is pretty easy to understand, I mean all you have to do is subsitute the spaceship for a broom. For example: 4,3,2,1, Earth below us,drifting falling floating weightless calling calling home... now, 4,3,2,1, (kicking off)Earth below us,drifting falling(being dizzy high up off the ground) floating weightless(c'mon FLYING) calling calling home(being very happy and yelling exuberantly) Sources: Lyrics download and my imagination.

Song 1: Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 by Pink Floyd
Scene: Order of the Phoenix when Fred and George cause all that havoc and end by riding off into the sunset (lol)

I read a description of the song and parts of this description I felt fit:

Quote :

In Part 2, the school children create an anthem of youthful unrest in response to the harsh treatment of the cynical teachers. Since its release, countless children and adults have adopted "ABITW 2" as an anarchistic hymn using it to strike back against years of educational oppression. While some apply the song's biting lyrics to specific kinds of schooling, others use it as a rallying cry against any government mandated form of education…The opening lyrics illustrate this in the fact that "we don't need no education," is both a double negative (We Need Education, in the sense that certain types of education are good…they keep people from using double negatives! :-) ) and it's a specific cry stating "we don't need THIS TYPE OF education."

Of course we all know Umbridge was a tyrant sent by the Ministry. The way she ran things reminded me much of some things I have been reading in history. By being appointed Hogwarts High Inquisitor she has practically become an absolute monarch. Well anyway I am getting a bit off topic. Her teaching method was a bit...what’s the word? Oh I don’t know. It was just stupid in my opinion and didn’t teach anything. She only taught Ministry-approved theory rather than practical defense methods. This was not the type of education the children needed and the punishment was sadistic.

I think the song fits because in a sense this scene was a strike back against educational oppression by a government mandated form of education. Also it wasn’t them striking back against education but rebelling against the type of education they were receiving.

We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

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Song 2: Propinquity (I've Just Begun to Care) by Michael Nesmith (The Monkees)
Scene: Half-Blood Prince when Harry and Ginny kiss for the first time

This song, I believe, fits perfectly with how Harry just begins to notice he likes Ginny. She has always been there and infatuated with him, but he never really paid any attention to it. It was kind of like she was just another girl in love with the Boy Who Lived. In his eyes he probably saw her as someone who was in love with the scar and not him himself. But of course he realizes he likes her and well you all know what eventually happens. Also there is the whole fact that if he had noticed before they could have had all that time with her, but as the song goes he was blind to not of loved her all that time. (Even though I deny he loves her and that he belongs with Draco…but anyways….)

I've known for a long time, the kind of girl you are,
Of the smile that covers teardrops the way your head yields to your heart,
Of things you've kept inside that most girls couldn't bear,
I've known you for a long time but I've just begun to care.
I've known of all the heartache and I've known of all the pain,
'Cause I've seen you when the sun shines and I've seen you when it rains,
I've seen you make a look of love from just an icy stare,
I've known you for a long time but I've just begun to care.

I know I've been blind
To not have loved you all this time,
But the image of you wasn't clear,
I guess that I've been standing too near.
Oh, it's taken me a while, but I have finally found
What you are to me and that's what really counts,
And what you are to me is something we can share,
I've known you for a long time but I've just begun to care.

I guess that I've been standing too near.
Oh, it's taken me a while, but I have finally found
What you are to me and that's what really counts,
And what you are to me is something we both share,
I've known you for a long time but I've just begun to care,
Yes, I've known you for a long time but I've just begun to care.

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Sources:

Another Brick in the Wall Part II lyrics by Pink Floyd and song description
Propinquity (I've Just Begun to Care) lyrics by Michael Nesmith

First Song: In Her Eyes by Josh Groban

I think this song is perfect for Severus' feelings for Lily, his first and only love. In the seventh book, this song was playing through my head from the point Where Severus died, all the way through the chapter "The Prince's Tale". He always loved Lily, and she was the only one who understood him. Right before his death, he asked Harry to look at him and the last things he saw were Lily's eyes, and they didn't look away.

Bonus:




Second Song: Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace

I believe Remus fits this song pretty well. I think he wants someone there for him, but at the same time, he doesn't want to get his hopes up and have them crash down on him because the person getting close to him rejects him because of his 'condition'.He feels trapped, and he craves the help he needs.

Bonus:

Well done to everyone who participated.

Gryffindor
KatieBellaTrix: 36
amberg93: 40
Im_Hermione: 45
traci=ronlover102: 36
Samantha Granger: 40
hppamela: 36
crystaldimpin: 20

Hufflepuff]
dragonweaver: 36
Etta: 40
kikso: 48
amergin: 29
Vulcan/Blackjack: 40
Snape_Luffer: 35
Just_Ginny: 45

Ravenclaw
Elana: 48
stephy: 36
PrincessPotter: 36
Herbaceoustraitorous: 36
Aleta: 34
ElladoraZeller: 41

Slytherin
romance lover: 43
SlytherinPride7: 36
drkangelcat: 40
EmmalynnMalfoy: 45