Fanmix time! Part 1

[lady_sarai]

Beginning with aradiachiba's request for "Ginny Weasley or Harry/Ginny"...

Well, I sort of did both and then made one for Harry, too. He felt left out. (Of course, you could just say I made three Harry/Ginny mixes and call it good, too. ;) Heh.)

Also, err... much more than 3-5 songs. Nothing mini about this. I got into it. I love me my H/G.





Harry's mix:

1.) O Fortuna

From the Carmina Burana, it's just grand and epic sounding and... why not?

2.) Boulevard of Broken Dreams

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find
Till then I'll walk alone...

Well, he's not really alone, but he thinks he is. Silly Harry.

3.) Broadway

You see you'd love to run home
But you know you ain't got one
'Cause you're livin' in a world that you're best forgotten
And when you're thinkin' you're a joke
Do you think that they'll listen to the one small point
I know they been missin' round here...

OotP. Umbridge. Daily Prophet. Capslock of RAGING DOOM!! ::cough:: Yeah.

4.) Just Here to the Left of You

Twist and turn me, bait and burn me
Smile and send me to oblivion
Breathe and bathe me, just be and save me
Know I'm just here to the left of you
And when there's only he dark I can still see the light
When there's only the dark you are always the light
In my eyes...

Erm, really should be in the Harry/Ginny mix, but there you are.

5.) Home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not
Come along with me
But this was not your dream
But you always believe in me...

Again, Ginny.

6.) Ordinary Boy

See, I'm not such and ordinary boy
I spend all night just listening to your voice
I'm not such an ordinary boy
Break my heart, do what you will, just don't leave me alone

If anyone is an ordinary boy, it is not Harry Potter.

7.) Iris

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

8.) Precious Little Meltdown

You want the answers to be in a tongue you understand
You're looking for someone like me to tell you when to throw your hand
What battles to fight, what causes are right
Then I drown in a precious little meltdown

Because Harry's got a lot of expectations heaped on him and a lot of people looking to him as their savior. And does he know what he's doing?

9.) My Hero

There goes my hero, watch him as he goes
There goes my hero, he's ordinary...

And sometimes, Harry Potter is an ordinary boy. ;)

10.) Hero

And they say
That a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait...

Well? He's not.

11.) Every Time Around

If only I could stay I would say, I would never leave you
If I could get control I'd do nothing but hold you
But when I see you smiling even though it's over
Well, you can walk out of my world
Goodbye, don't say you love me...

Oh, Harry, you and your noble sacrifices.

12.) The Difference

Slow dancing on the boulevard
In the quiet moments while the city’s still dark
Sleepwalking through the summer rain and the tired spaces
You could hear her name when she was warm and tender
And you held her arms around you
There was nothing but her love and affection
She was crazy for you
Now she's part of something that you lost...

'Cause Harry ♥s Ginny.

13.) When You Say You Love Me

You're the one I've always thought of.
I don't know how, but I feel sheltered in your love.
You're where I belong.
And when you're with me if I close my eyes,
There are times I swear I feel like I can fly
For a moment in time...

(See explanation for 12.)


Ginny's mix:

1.) Not A Pretty Girl

I am not a pretty girl
That is not what I do
I ain't no damsel in distress
And I don't need to be rescued...

And I am sorry
I am not a maiden fair
And I am not a kitten stuck up a tree somewhere...

Because this song kicks some serious ass, and Ginny does too. Girl power, yo.

2.) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

When the working day is done
Girls--they want to have fun...

And Ginny is also a fun girl-power girl. ;) I could totally see her dancing around with a hairbrush singing this song. Provided she knew it, that is.

3.) Bitch

So take me as I am
This may mean you'll have to be a stronger man
Rest assured that when I start to make you nervous
And I'm going to extremes
Tomorrow I will change and today won't mean a thing...

Yes, that song. Another of my favorite "yes, I'm a girl and proud of it" songs. Which I believe applies to Ginny. ;)

4.) Holding Out For a Hero

It's gonna take a superman to sweep me off my feet...

I mean.... come on. Ginny loved Harry when she was ten. She only dated Michael and Dean because she was waiting for Harry.

5.) Crush

It's just a little crush
Not like I faint, every time we touch
It's just some little thing
Not like every thing I do
Depends on you...

This would be Ginny's trying-to-get-over-Harry phase. Otherwise known as 'fooling-herself.' ;)

6.) Dreaming of You

Wonder if you ever see me and I wonder if you
Know I'm there (Am I there)
If you looked in my eyes would you see what's inside
Would you even care...

...Late at night when all the world is sleeping
I stay up and think of you
And I still can't believe that
You came up to me and said
I love you
I love you too...

...Yes, so, this fanmix is Harry/Ginny masquerading as Ginny.

7.) Hero

Erm... apparently this song made both Harry and Ginny's mixes. ...I have nothing more to say.

8.) Angel

The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack
It don't make no difference, escaping one last time
It's easier to believe
In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees...

So... when you think Tom Riddle's diary, it makes this song something new and entirely different. If you think 'ooh, pretty' it still works for Ginny. ;)

9.) Follow If You Lead

Should I hold your hand
No matter what you plan?
For every hour you need
I will follow if you lead...

I may well give up explaining. ;)

10.) There's a Fine, Fine Line

There's a fine, fine line between a lover and a friend;
There's a fine, fine line between reality and pretend;
And you never know 'til you reach the top if it was worth the uphill climb.
There's a fine, fine line between love...
And a waste of your time.

Ginny, finally giving up on Harry. (Pre-HBP, of course.)

11.) Better Days

And you ask me what I want this year
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days...

I think Ginny's an optimist at heart, and that this really is what she wants, in the end. This is, of course, otherwise known as my "Peter Pan" song, but that has nothing to do with this mix in the slightest.

12.) Brave

So long status quo
I think I just let go
You make me want to be brave
The way it always was
Is no longer good enough
You make me want to be brave...
I am small
And I speak when I'm spoken to
But I am willing to risk it all...

Well, she is a Gryffindor, isn't she?

13.) Love Heals

Because it does.

Harry/Ginny mix:

1.) All For You

Finally I figured out
But it took a long, long time
But now there's a turnabout
Maybe 'cause I'm trying
There's been times
I'm so confused
All my roads
They lead to you
I just can't turn and walk away
It's hard to say what it is I see in you
Wonder if I'll always be with you
But words can't say
And I can't do
Enough to prove
It's all for you...

Maybe I'll let the lyrics speak for themselves.

2.) Answer

If it takes my whole life
I won't break, I won't bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
Because I can only tell you that I know
That I need you in my life...

Ginny ♥s Harry.

3.) Bent

If I fall along the way
Pick me up and dust me off
If I get too tired to make it
Be my breath so I can walk
If I need some of your love again
Give me more than I can stand
When my smile gets old and faded
Wait around I'll smile again...

If the last song was Ginny, this is Harry.

4.) Don't Let Go

Now would you mind if I bared my soul
If I came right out and said you're beautiful
Cuz there's something here I can't explain
I feel I'm diving into driving rain
You get my senses running wild
I can't resist your sweet, sweet smile
So take this feeling and make it grow
Never let it--never let it go...

It's Bryan Adams and Sarah McLachlan. C'mon.

5.) Candle on the Water

I'll be your candle on the water
My love for you will always burn
I know you're lost and drifting
But the clouds are lifting
Don't give up you'll have somewhere to turn...

Never mind that this has always been a favorite song of mine. It works.

6.) Can't Help Falling in Love

Wise men say only fools rush in
But I can't help falling in love with you
Shall I stay
Would it be a sin
If I can't help falling in love with you
Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be...

7.) All I Ever Wanted

I convinced my self that over don't mean over
And I convinced myself that I could fix it all
Two dreams collided maybe we got too excited for our own good
No more--hold on we can make it
No more holding each other while the words all break it
Move on you know we'll be stronger in the end
Now I convinced myself that nothing could ever tear me away
And I convinced myself that we'd look back and laugh at this one day...

There has to be a bump in the road, doesn't there? Harry and his noble sacrifices. Ginny has plans of her own.

8.) Everything I Do (I Do It For You)

Take me as I am - take my life
I would give it all I would sacrifice
Don't tell me it's not worth fightin' for
I can't help it there's nothin' I want more...

...Yes, and Harry's noble sacrifice is because he loves her.

9.) Hanging By A Moment

I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and I question where to go
And I don't know what I'm tapping into
Just hanging by a moment here with you...

Several sunlit days.

10.) I'm With You

Oh you are the sunshine,
You are the face that I dream of
You are your mother's religion,
Down on her knees as she kisses your
Heartache away
I've thrown coins in the fountain,
I've been to the mountain
I've lived trough the violence,
I've seen what man can do to man
I can't promise you peace,
I can't promise you money
But I promise to make you the best man I can
Hold onto something
'cause your life's about to begin...

Um, I continue to find this song ridiculously romantic every time I hear it.

11.) Time After Time

If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you
I will be waiting
Time after time...

Yes, that song. But a fantastic cover version that makes it kick ass. (Not the version in John Tucker Must Die, although that cover also makes the song awesome.)

12.) Just Here To The Left of You

Um. Apparently made the Harry/Ginny mix after all. As well as the Harry mix. Apparently Adam Pascal songs=Harry Potter, in my mind. ...Well.

13.) Now I Know

After all this time you've probably felt
safer on your own.
But I was never
better off alone.
You probably felt like I'd
forgotten you
Probably thought that I
couldn't see
you out of the corner of my eye.
And now I know
I should have never let you go
And now I know
I've always loved you
And you are so much
more than I deserve
I want you to know
that now I know...

I adore this song. Anthony Rapp is a god. That is all. (Oh, and Harry ♥s Ginny.)

14.) There For Me

Are you my destiny, words I never dared to say
Will you be there for me?
Just think of you and me, we could never toe the line
It's such a mystery just to hear you say you're mine
And while you're close to me, so close to me
Just hold me
Are you still there for me?

Some of these songs are just plain beautiful.

15.) Wherever You Will Go

When I'm gone, you'll need love
To light the shadows on your face
If the great wave shall fall
It'd fall upon as all...
And maybe, I'll find out
The way to make it back someday
To watch you, to guide you
Through the darkest of your days...
In your heart and your mind
I'll stay with you for all of time...

16.) When You Say You Love Me

::smacks self:: Another song appearing both here and in Harry's mix. Note to self: Check your mixes next time.

17.) Somewhere

There's a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
Peace and quiet and open air
Wait for us somewhere
There's a time for us
Some day a time for us
Time together with time to spare
Time to learn time to care
Some day
Somewhere...

I've been in love in a heartbreaking sort of way with this song since first hearing it in sixth grade, when we studied West Side Story in music class. The fact that this is a Josh Groban cover? Does not hurt. Another plus? It totally applies to Harry/Ginny.

18.) The Difference

See explanation for 16. Note to self, again: REALLY check your mixes next time. =P Oops.

This was very fun. I love these characters and this pairing.


And then arnica tried to give me a heart attack or something and requested Severus Snape/Hermione Granger.

I apologize for no fancy banner thingy, but it might have broken me to make one. ;)



Snape/Hermione mix:

Apologies in advance if you hate my choices, hon. In order for this pairing to remotely work in my brain, Hermione has to become extremely jaded. =P

1.)All I Need

And life ain't no beauty show
We don't know where tomorrow ends
And when we're sad
It's kind of a drag
Just stay all through the night
In the morning let me down
That's all that I need right now
Right now...

2.) Breathe (2 am)

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
'can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
I don't love him; winter just wasn't my season.'
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to critisize,
hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason.
'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
and life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button girl,
So cradle your head in you hands
And breathe, just breathe...

3.) Feel

Well, I'm a wreck
I'm a mess
I'm a spot on the pavement
I'm a number on your wall
I make you so tired
And I don't think I like this game no more
It goes around and round and round
I'll tell you one more time
Yeah, one more time
And now you crossed that line
You can't come back
Tell me how does it feel now
It's too late too much to forget about
Can't stop now
How does it feel now
I'm only asking because I wanna know
How you wanna feel...

4.) Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever
Learned from love
Was how to shoot
At someone
Who outdrew you
It's not a cry
You can hear at night
It's not somebody
Who's seen the light
It's a cold and
It's a broken Hallelujah...

5.) Rhyme and Reason

The desperate look in our eyes, holding on to one another
Holding on for all our lives, just letting go to discover
That love don't need a reason
And love don't need a rhyme...


I hope you girls like! =D That was fun. (The sad thing is, writing this post took all week. Oops. The other mixes should be along... sometime. =P) Should the links stop working, let me know and I'll re-upload. :)

Edit: zoe_chan is back and she asked me to elaborate on the Snape/Hermione mix and anyway, arnica might be interested:


NutterZoi: I like the intensive Harry/Ginny stuff, but your Hermione/Snape really really works for me.
LadyDizzybird: yay! I'm glad you like them!
NutterZoi: Unexpectedly
NutterZoi: a lot
LadyDizzybird: I'm glad! I had a hard time with that one.
NutterZoi: can I get more of your thoughts for what would happen there?
LadyDizzybird: I was thinking... post-war.
NutterZoi: 'cause I'm curious as to how some of them came.
LadyDizzybird: Hermione would have to be very jaded
NutterZoi: yes.
NutterZoi: I'm looking for your mental plot there.
LadyDizzybird: the first one being how things start, maybe; one or both of them using the other....
NutterZoi: cool
LadyDizzybird: kind of... well, we're both still alive.
LadyDizzybird: the second one being more 'well, fuck, what'd I get into?'
NutterZoi: hehe
LadyDizzybird: and sort of starting to get serious
LadyDizzybird: the third one? I'm not sure. I liked it and it *felt* like it worked.
NutterZoi: cool
LadyDizzybird: and Hallelujah? because I love it, and it works for something very messed up... :-P
NutterZoi: and Hallelujah has that despairing this isn't really love but let's go with it 'cause I'm too tired to go with something else feel.
LadyDizzybird: the last one being kind of a concession on my part to the idea that maybe they could actually fall in love, or anyway, who's to say what makes sense in love anyway?
LadyDizzybird: yes!!
LadyDizzybird: thank you.
NutterZoi: I love your mix for them, and your rationale
LadyDizzybird: which is sort of how Feel felt for me, too. like they've hit some turning point and decisions need to be made whether to continue or not
NutterZoi: YES.
NutterZoi: I love it
NutterZoi: and I want to write fanfic off your fanmix
LadyDizzybird: ooo, you should!
NutterZoi:I may
LadyDizzybird: it would lead to squeaks and glee from me.
LadyDizzybird: even Hermione/Snape.
NutterZoi: not now, 'cause I have to do my femgenficathon peice, but I will.
LadyDizzybird:dammit, my own mix might make me read that ship.

Which I think says it all.

Comments

[aradiachiba.livejournal.com]

Whee!!! That was fun!!! I loved those! :) Thank you!!!!!

[zoe-chan.livejournal.com]

er... May I say I completely love your fanmixes? 'Cause I totally do. ::is in awe:: The Ginny/Harry one is totally intensive and great, but I really kind of love the Hermione/Snape one, too. It works for me unexpectedly. Wow. Yeah.

[alphabet26.livejournal.com]

Yay, music! Thanks!