Up the Creek

It's all coming back to me now

There were nights when the wind was so cold

That my body froze in bed

If I just listened to it

Right outside the window

"I had to listen. I had to listen to the wind. The wind always had the capacity to tell me something. The capacity to bring memories back. Even if the wind was chilling me to the bone. It still had something to say. It said that I deserved to be lying here in this hospital with no memory of earlier days. It said I had lied to a lot of people. That I've done bad thing. That I drove my true love away!"

"I have loved someone? More than myself? That's news. There is no one I have seen since I lost my memory that I'd qualify as my true love. But why would I love to give autographs if I wasn't famous. I must be famous... Maybe I met her through that. What did I do? I have no clue. Some boy told me I was a Professor, others tell me I'm a writer and then there are others who say I'm the greatest wizard alive.

There were moments of gold

And there were flashes of light

There were things I'd never do again

But then they'd always seemed right

There were nights of endless pleasure

It was more than any laws allow

Someone appeared in the ward.

"I'm looking for Gilderoy Lockhart!" he heard a vaguely familiar voice say. Familiar. He had never heard a vaguely familiar voice. And the voice was asking for him. It was a woman, that much was sure... but still it was strange. He never got visitors, apart from the time the bos and the girl came to visit him and thought he was a Professor.

When Gil saw her, it hit him. "She's the one that I drove off," he said. "she's the one the wind has been telling me about. I just know it."

As he kissed her hand, he remembered that he had done that once before...

"Hi, Gil! I'm Rita. You may not remember me..." said the woman. She had the voice of an angel!

"We met in Paris! A long long time ago!"

"I remember you! I love you!" Gil said slowly, knowing it was the truth.

A truth he had known for all those long years, but has never said one word about.

He remembered there nights of pleasure. He remembered how he abandoned her for some nameless model.

"I thought I lost you! I have been so stupid. Can you forgive me, my darling?" he asked.

"Yes," Rita said with a huge smile on her face.

Slowly she bowed to him and kissed him for the first time to both their knowledge.

There were hours that just went on for days

When alone at last we'd count up all the chances

That were lost to us forever

As they sat on Gilderoy's bed in St. Mungo's, Gilderoy remembered what he had done, his memory restored itself. His love for Rita and Rita's love for him were powerful enough to heal him completely. He was able to leave St. Mungo's.

He and Rita were making wedding plans. Rita especially wanted to invite 'Little Miss Perfect' and her friends. It was in theory them that had brought them back together. It had been them that caused them both to lose their memories. It had been their perseverance in keeping guidance over Rita that had allowed Rita to remember after a while that she loved Gilderoy. It had allowed Gilderoy to heal and get his memory back. It was thanks to 'Little Miss Perfect' and her friends that they were now together; planning their wedding.