To the tune of Angel of Music
MEROPE:
Father
Father
Please let me in
Her attempts prove to be in vain, and she sinks down onto the front stoop, sobbing silently. Tom Riddle is strolling past the house and begins to notice her.
TOM:
Why in the world, dear, are you crying?
You needn't be upset!
Why are you wearing these old rags?
Come now, poor girl, cheer up!
She just stares into his eyes for a few seconds before finally saying something.
MEROPE:
Father locked me out of the house
I did not know what to do
I was distraught for a moment
How can I thank you?
TOM: (spoken)
What's your name?
MEROPE:
Merope Gaunt
aren't you Tom Riddle?
I have seen you before!
I've seen you with that girl, Cecilia
Also that you split up
TOM:
Seems she was caught with another
I don't want that kind of girl
MEROPE:
Well, that's too bad, Mr. Riddle
She catches sight of a pearl in the side of his coat pocket.
What a lovely pearl!
He looks at it, and rips it off.
TOM:
Merope Gaunt, now you may have it!
My family's rich
take it!
Merope Gaunt, I hope you'll cheer up!
It will all be alright!
MEROPE:
I wish that could be true
TOM:
Of course it is
MEROPE:
You don't know him
TOM:
Can I do anything?
MEROPE:
He frightens me!
TOM:
Don't be frightened
The Realization
To the tune of Prologue
Morfin has been watching this little scene from inside.
MORFIN: (spoken)
MARVOLO: (spoken)
MORFIN: (spoken)
Merope enters the front room, singing happily.
MEROPE:
Oh, what a feeling to be liked
Am I dreaming
Before she can say anything else, Marvolo gives her a huge slap across the face, sending her sprawling.
MARVOLO: (spoken) You slut! Not only are you a filthy Squib, but you're a dirty whore
in love with a Muggle! You are the biggest disgrace to the descendents of Salazar Slytherin to ever walk this earth. Now, your brother and I are going out, and I expect this place to be absolutely spotless when we get back. And if I spot one speck of dust in this house, let's just say that there will be severe consequences!
Marvolo and Morfin leave.
I Remember/Potion Making
To the tune of I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It
Merope is alone in the house, still lying on the floor, clutching her creek, crying.
MEROPE:
But those days have come and gone
She stops, suddenly thinking of Tom.
Oh, Tom, if you could just see me
She begins to sob loudly, thinking it hopeless, but then snaps her head up, an idea coming to mind.
That's it!
She begins looking through shelves for books, finally finding one marked, "Love, Passion, and Lust."
That's it!
She begins to read the recipe aloud.
"Three pints of Porlock spawn
She looks up from the book, clearly confused by the complicated instructions.
Oh, dear Lord ...
But for him ...
She collects herself and begins to make the potion.
Well, what do you know?
The Potion Amortentia
To the tune of The Phantom of the Opera
Merope Gaunt watches for Tom Riddle through the hedges with her love potion prepared.
MEROPE:
She comes forward to him, and he, mounted on his horse, takes the cup she hands him.
TOM:
The potion takes hold.
MEROPE:
TOM:
MEROPE/TOM:
The trees begin to sway in the wind, stirring up voices that both Tom and Merope hear.
CHORUS:
MEROPE:
TOM:
MEROPE/TOM:
MEROPE:
TOM: (spoken)
MEROPE:
TOM: (spoken)
MEROPE:
TOM: (spoken)
MEROPE:
TOM: (spoken)
MEROPE:
TOM: (spoken)
MEROPE:
TOM: (spoken)
MEROPE:
Wishing I Had Not a Human Side
To the tune of Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
Tom Marvolo Riddle wanders the cemetery around the Riddle House in Little Hangleton.
TOM (JR):
Wishing I had not
Wishing I could live
Passing tombs
The fault is all yours;
Wishing I had not
No more weaknesses,
To mortality-
What?! Can this be true? Merope
in love with the Muggle
What are you on about, then, Morfin?
Merope's in love with that filthy Muggle who owns this village.
Oh, Tom Riddle, you're so kind
Handsome features, with charm, wittiness too
Especi'lly by a man of stature such as you
Or could it be you love me too?
I remember the old days
The old days when he was kind and loved me so
Those memories have lived and died
And now there's simply nothing left ...
What would you think of me now?
Merlin's beard, it's so simple!
I can't believe this!
How did I not see it before?
Now where is the flaming potion?
Yes, here it is ...
"How to Get the One Your Adore!"
That's it!
That's it!
Add two dragon eyes, and then you
Stir one hundred twelve times
Mix in five doxy eggs, four bat brains
And last, fifty-two lacefly wings, fifty-two ... fifty-two ..."
What am I to do
I can't make a broomstick fly
How should I know what to do
With a strange potion like this, like this
A potion like Amortentia ... such hard work ... and for what?
Potion-making is much easier than I'd have guessed!
Through hedge I watched for you
Through gate I peered
Often I wait long for
You to appear
It will be worth my wait
All my spent time
When my potion Amortentia is brewed
And you to me, binds
I ride again past you
Dying of thirst
What I need is a drink
Foremost and first
I'll drink your offered cup
Naοve and blind
And the potion Amortentia, the brew
Me to you, binds
You once saw my face and
Drew back in fear
But now your eyes meet mine
And I draw near
Bowed to obsessive love
To Fate, resigned
The potion Amortentia is brewed
And love is blind
She's brewed the potion Amortentia.
Beware the potion Amortentia.
Though I have longed for love,
It seems not right
That you have joined to me
Without a fight
Yet still our passions rage
So intertwined
The potion Amortentia is brewed,
True love we'll find
Sing, my love, my Merope Gaunt!
It's brewed - the potion Amortentia
Sing!
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
Sing!
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
Sing for me!
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
Sing, Merope!
Ah!!! Ah!!! Ah!!!
SING FOR ME!!!
AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
I never had
But one companion;
Love to me
Never mattered.
I never knew you,
My own father;
Our family you shattered.
A human side;
Wishing I were
Free from pain.
I find that it seems
My mortal genes
Are but weakness
To me.
An eternity,
And knowing what
That requires.
You I come to kill;
My task I'll fulfill
As your feeble life
Expires.
And broken headstones;
Your fate, like theirs,
Approaches.
With your death
I'll live forever,
In cups and rings
And broaches.
You'll fall to the floor-
Like my human side, you'll die!
A human side;
Wishing I could
Never die.
I cannot forgive,
Nor love can I give.
My humanity I defy!
No more human pain;
No more fear of death--
I'll come back again.
Goodbye!
Harry Potter the
Musical(s)