Make Us Laugh - Chapter 37 Filk

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 16193

Make Us Laugh (GoF, Chapter 37)

(To the tune of Make `Em Laugh, from Singin' in the Rain )

Dedicated to Pippin, who makes all of HP4GU laugh

(The Scene: Station Nine and Three-Quarters. HARRY has just handed 
over his Triwizards prize money to FRED and GEORGE)

HARRY (spoken)
Take it. I don't want it.

FRED (flabbergasted)
What?

GEORGE (trying to push it back to HARRY)
You're mental!

HARRY
No, I'm not. You take it, and get inventing.

(music)
Make us laugh
Make us laugh
The whole wizard world needs to laugh

Go into business, you guys
Selling joke shop merchandise
Our battle is half-won
If we make fighting Death-Eaters fun

The name of Voldemort produces terror and screams
But you can help us transform our nightmares into dreams
If you offer a great bargain price on Canary Creams
Make us laugh, make us laugh, make us laugh!

Make us laugh 
Make us laugh 
I ask this on all Hogwarts' behalf

FRED
Lupin said, "A boggart will flee
When treated comically."

GEORGE
The best Dark Arts defense
Is the one with a humorous sense

HARRY
If you would practice Curses like the Imperius

GEORGE
You can not be facetious, you must stay serious

FRED
But existence without Dungbombs would be so tedious

ALL
Make `em laugh, make `em laugh, make `em laugh!

FRED AND GEORGE
Make `em laugh 
Make `em laugh 
Let them give this as our epitaph:
"Whenever life went off-key,
They turned to Ton Tongue Toffees!"

HARRY
If Hogwarts we would save
We must learn how not to be too grave

FRED
The next few years may be a time when we lose all hope

HARRY
With misery and horror it will be hard to cope

GEORGE
So we'll send You-Know-Who a bar of our Frog Spawn Soap

ALL
Make `em laugh!......................
Make `em laugh!.......................
Make `em laugh!.......................

     - CMC