HP "memes" and Popular Songs

[davewitley]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "heathernmoore" <heathernmoore at y...> 
wrote:
> I'm sure everyone's familiar with the experience of - uhm, I 
guess "memetic infection," you could call it. You know the drill: you 
get just so taken with a particular story element that you find 
parallels to it in things which have no connection. Mostly this 
happens with songs, where you'll assign an unrelated "theme" to a 
character. 
> 

Isn't this how filks start?  Every time I hear Shaggy's 'It wasn't 
me', I think of Harry and Snape, you know:

Stealing all my Boomslang
It wasn't me
Turning up in Hogsmeade
It wasn't me

etc.

I just can't remember whether that's because it's an obvious 
association, or because someone already did the filk and it seeped 
into my subconscious, and it reappeared, pretending to be my own idea.

How could I forget,
They had sent it to the list for me?

David