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Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Have you heard,

Harry Potter's the new Gryffindor Seeker?

I always knew he'd do well.

Seeker?

But first years never make the house team.

You must be the youngest Quidditch player in a—

Century.

According to McGonagall.

Hey, well done, Harry.

Wood's just told us.

Fred and George are on the team too.

Beaters.

Our job is to make sure

that you don't get bloodied up too bad.

Can't make any promises, of course.

Rough game, Quidditch.

Brutal!

But no one's died in years.

Someone will vanish occasionally.

But they'll turn up in a month or two!

Oh, go on, Harry.

Quidditch is great!

Best game there is.

And you'll be great too.

But I've never even played Quidditch.

What if I make a fool of myself?

You won't make a fool of yourself.

It's in your blood.

Whoa!

Harry!

You never told me your father

was a Seeker too.

I didn't know.

I'm telling you,

it's spooky.

She knows more about you than you do.

Who doesn't?

What's happening?

The staircases change, remember?

Let's go this way.

Before the staircase moves again.

Does anybody feel like

we shouldn't be here?

We're not supposed to be here.

This is the third floor.

It's forbidden.

Let's go.

It's Filch's cat!

Run!

Quick!

Let's hide through that door!

It's locked!

That's it, we're done for—

Oh, move over!

Alohomora.

Get in.

Alohomora?

Standard Book of Spells, chapter seven.

Anyone here, my sweet?

Come on.

Filch is gone.

Probably thinks this door's locked.

It was locked.

And for good reason.

[Fluffy yawning]

Ahh!

What do they think they're doing?

Keeping a thing like that locked up in a school.

You don't use your eyes, do you?

Didn't you see what it was standing on?

I wasn't looking at its feet!

I was a bit preoccupied with its heads.

Or maybe you didn't notice.

There were three!

It was standing on a trapdoor,

which means it wasn't there by accident.

It's guarding something.

"Guarding something?"

That's right.

Now, if you two don't mind,

I'm going to bed,

before either of you

come up with another clever idea

to get us killed.

Or worse, expelled.

She needs to sort out her priorities.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
Seeker /ˈsiːkər/ B2	noun - a player in Quidditch whose role is to catch the Golden Snitch
Century /ˈsɛntʃəri/ A2	noun - a period of one hundred years
Brutal /ˈbruːtəl/ B2	adjective - savagely violent; cruel
Vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/ B2	verb - to disappear suddenly
Spooky /ˈspuːki/ B2	adjective - sinister or ghostly in a way that causes fear
Staircase /ˈstɛərkeɪs/ A2	noun - a set of stairs and its surrounding structure
Forbidden /fəˈbɪdən/ B2	adjective - not allowed; banned
Standard /ˈstændərd/ A2	adjective - used or accepted as normal or average
Preoccupied /priˈɒkjupaɪd/ C1	adjective - lost in thought; engrossed
Trapdoor /ˈtræpdɔːr/ B2	noun - a hinged or removable panel in a floor, ceiling, or roof
Accident /ˈæksɪdənt/ A2	noun - an event that happens by chance or without apparent cause
Guard /ɡɑːrd/ B1	verb - to watch over in order to protect or control
Clever /ˈklɛvər/ A2	adjective - quick to understand; intelligent
Expelled /ɪkˈspɛld/ B2	verb - to be forced to leave a school or organization
Priorities /praɪˈɔːrɪtiz/ B2	noun - the fact or condition of being regarded or treated as more important

Key Grammar Structures

• I always knew he'd do well.

  ➔ Future in the Past

  ➔ We use "would" to express an action that was in the future relative to a past time.

• You must be the youngest Quidditch player in a century.

  ➔ Modal Verb of Deduction (Must + be)

  ➔ We use "must" to express a logical conclusion based on evidence.

• Our job is to make sure that you don't get bloodied up too bad.

  ➔ Passive Voice (Get + past participle)

  ➔ Using "get" + "bloodied" (past participle) to describe undergoing an action or state change.

• But no one's died in years.

  ➔ Present Perfect Tense

  ➔ The contraction "no one's" means "no one has", indicating a state continuing up to the present.

• You never told me your father was a Seeker too.

  ➔ Reported Speech / Past Simple

  ➔ The speaker uses past tense "was" to refer to a fact that was true in the past.

• What if I make a fool of myself?

  ➔ Conditional Clause (What if...)

  ➔ "What if" is used to ask about the consequences of a hypothetical situation.

• We're not supposed to be here.

  ➔ Be supposed to

  ➔ "Be supposed to" is used to express expectations or obligations.

• Didn't you see what it was standing on?

  ➔ Embedded Question / Past Continuous

  ➔ "what it was standing on" acts as the object of "see" in this sentence.