– English Lyrics

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Ginny!

Oh, Ginny, please don't be dead.

Wake up! Wake up!

Please wake up.

She won't wake.

Tom.

Tom Riddle.

What do you mean, "she won't wake?"

She's not —

She's still alive.

But only just.

Are you a ghost?

A memory.

Preserved in a diary for 50 years.

She's cold as ice.

Ginny.

Please don't be dead.

Wake up.

You've got to help me, Tom.

There's a Basilisk.

It won't come until it's called.

Give me my wand, Tom.

You won't be needing it.

Listen, we've got to go.

We've got to save her.

I'm afraid I can't do that, Harry.

You see,

as poor Ginny grows weaker,

I grow stronger.

Yes, Harry.

It was Ginny Weasley

who opened the Chamber of Secrets.

No.

She couldn't.

She wouldn't.

It was Ginny who set the Basilisk

on the Mudbloods and Filch's cat.

Ginny who wrote the threatening messages

on the walls.

But why?

Because I told her to.

You'll find I can be very persuasive.

Not that she knew what she was doing.

She was, shall we say, in a kind of trance.

Still, the power of the diary began to scare her.

And she tried to dispose of it

in the girls' bathroom.

And then...

Who should find it, but you?

The very person I was most anxious to meet.

And why did you want to meet me?

I knew I had to talk to you.

Meet you if I could.

So I decided to show you my capture

of that brainless oaf, Hagrid,

to gain your trust.

Hagrid's my friend!

And you framed him, didn't you?

It was my word against Hagrid's.

Only Dumbledore

seemed to think he was innocent.

I bet Dumbledore saw right through you.

He certainly kept an annoyingly close

watch on me after that.

I knew it wouldn't be safe

to open the Chamber again

while I was still at school.

So I decided to leave behind a diary.

Preserving my 16-year-old self

in its pages so that one day

I would be able to lead another

to finish Salazar Slytherin's noble work.

Well you haven't finished it this time.

In a few hours,

the Mandrake draught will be ready.

And everyone who was Petrified

will be all right again.

Haven't I told you?

Killing Mudbloods doesn't matter to me anymore.

For many months now, my new target

has been you.

How is it,

that a baby with no extraordinary magical talent

was able to defeat the greatest wizard of all time?

How did you escape

with nothing but a scar,

while Lord Voldemort's powers were destroyed?

Why do you care how I escaped?

Voldemort was after your time.

Voldemort is my past,

present, and future.

You?

You're the heir of Slytherin?

You're Voldemort.

Surely, you didn't think

I was going to keep

my filthy Muggle father's name.

No,

I fashioned myself a new name.

A name I knew wizards everywhere

would one day fear to speak,

when I became the greatest

sorcerer in the world.

Albus Dumbledore is the

greatest sorcerer in the world.

Dumbledore's been driven

out of this castle

by the mere memory of me.

He'll never be gone.

Not as long as those

who remain are loyal to him.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
preserved /prɪˈzɜːrvd/ B2	adjective - kept in its original or existing state
persuasive /pərˈsweɪsɪv/ C1	adjective - good at convincing someone to do or believe something
trance /træns/ C1	noun - a half-conscious state characterized by an absence of response to external stimuli
dispose /dɪˈspoʊz/ B2	verb - to get rid of by throwing away
anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/ B1	adjective - eager or wanting to do something very much
capture /ˈkæptʃər/ B2	noun - the action of taking possession or control of something
oaf /oʊf/ C2	noun - a stupid, uncultured, or clumsy person
framed /freɪmd/ B2	verb - to produce false evidence against an innocent person
innocent /ˈɪnəsnt/ B1	adjective - not guilty of a crime or offense
noble /ˈnoʊbl/ B2	adjective - having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles
petrified /ˈpɛtrɪfaɪd/ C1	adjective - turned into stone
extraordinary /ɪkˈstrɔːrdəneri/ B2	adjective - very unusual or remarkable
heir /ɛr/ C1	noun - a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person's death
fashioned /ˈfæʃənd/ B2	verb - made or shaped
loyal /ˈlɔɪəl/ A2	adjective - giving or showing firm and constant support to a person

Key Grammar Structures

• You won't be needing it.

  ➔ Future Continuous

  ➔ The "future continuous" is used here to politely suggest that Harry's action of needing a wand is currently irrelevant or will not be happening.

• It was Ginny Weasley who opened the Chamber of Secrets.

  ➔ Cleft sentence (It + be + focus + relative clause)

  ➔ Cleft sentences are used to add emphasis to a specific part of the sentence, in this case, focusing on "Ginny Weasley" as the perpetrator.

• Not that she knew what she was doing.

  ➔ Subjunctive mood/Fixed expression for dismissal

  ➔ "Not that..." is an expression used to qualify or clarify a previous statement, essentially meaning "It is not the case that..."

• The very person I was most anxious to meet.

  ➔ Superlative with infinitive structure

  ➔ The superlative "most anxious" combined with the infinitive "to meet" is used to define "The very person" with high intensity.

• I knew I had to talk to you.

  ➔ Past modal of obligation (had to)

  ➔ "Had to" expresses a necessity or obligation that occurred in the past, contrasting with the current state of the conversation.

• And everyone who was Petrified will be all right again.

  ➔ Passive voice (relative clause)

  ➔ The phrase "who was Petrified" uses the passive voice to describe the state of the victims, indicating something happened to them.

• A name I knew wizards everywhere would one day fear to speak.

  ➔ Relative clause with omitted relative pronoun

  ➔ The relative pronoun "that" or "which" is omitted after "name", which is common in formal and literary English.

• Not as long as those who remain are loyal to him.

  ➔ Conjunction of condition (as long as)

  ➔ "As long as" sets a condition for the duration of Dumbledore's influence: it continues only if loyalty exists.