No one can take your dreams away

I dreamed last night that I was reading the intermediary Harry Potter—you know, the one that comes between #6 and #7—in which Ginny was engaged in some secret project involving Time that caused clocks to go haywire every time she came near them, and nobody knew where the hell Harry was, and Snape was hanging out in some Muggle café as a tutor to a university student.* I was so disappointed when I woke up, especially since I hadn't read to the end of the book by that point . . .**

What the hell?

*As fleurdelis28 says: "Snape in Starbucks? Wow." In plainclothes, too. And tutoring something like literature of the fantastic: wizarding history recast as fiction. I had a sudden vision of his double life at Hogwarts and Cambridge . . .

**A common problem in my dreams. But not usually with Harry Potter!

And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal

Nicked from fleurdelis28 and thomasfreund, the Lyrics Meme: a totally unrepresentative selection of lyrics from fifteen songs that iTunes ransacked randomly from my computer. Comment with the titles and performers of as many songs as you can. You're on your honor not to use search engines! I have no idea how obvious these will or will not be: at least one of these songs, I didn't even know I had . . .

1) It must have been Don Pasquale makin' a two a.m. booty call

2) Strange is your language and I have no decoder

3) Sad enough my life's a joke that suffers in the telling

4) There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air

5) Some kind of verb, some kind of moving thing

6) He came riding fast like a phoenix out of fire-flames

7) My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore

8) Lips grow cold with the rent to meet

9) Do you feel too much? Do you feel too real?

10) With the lights out, it's less dangerous

11) Let nothing confuse me or faze me—excuse me!

12) Love turns grey like the skin of a dying man

13) She's a highly specialized key component of operational unity

14) Now they're going to bed and my stomach is sick

15) And if the Devil is six, then God is seven