If You'd Just Let Me Explain (filk)

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 10389

Brilliant!  Wonderful!  I can't believe how perfectly that all fit!  
You did such a great job - between you and CMC you really ought to 
put out a CD!

Thanks for the great laugh!
kimberly


--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, foxmoth at q... wrote:
> If You'd Just Let Me Explain...
> [a filk by Pippin, to the tune of "If I Only Had a Brain" from The 
> Wizard of OZ]
> 
> Scene: The Shrieking Shack
> Present: Harry, Hermione, Ron,  Scabbers, Lupin, Black, Snape and 
> Crookshanks
> 
> (SIRIUS)
> I was not the secret keeper, I pawned it off on Peter
> For which I am to blame
> I thought he could be trusted but instead he got me busted
> If you'd just let me explain.
> I admit I am  compulsive, obsessive and  impulsive,
> And diagnosed insane
> Though you think  I'm a bad guy, I am innocent, not that guy
> If you'd just let me explain.
> 
> Oh I, can tell you why, I broke Ron's leg in two
> and cut up his curtains with a knife, I only wanted
> Pettigrew
> I would not be just a nothin', a fugitive stud muffin,
> My heart all full of pain.
> Life would be a ding a derry, I'd be taking care of Harry
> If you'd just let me explain.
> 
> (LUPIN)
> Oh, I couldn't be a lone wolf
> A go-it-on-your-own wolf
> My sanity to preserve.
> Led my friends to  animagic
> Risking outcomes worse than tragic
> Guess we had a lot of nerve.
> I'm afraid there's no denyin' to Dumble I've been lyin'
> My job I don't deserve 
> But I could have told the truth, all about my misspent youth,
> If I'd only had the nerve
> 
> (SIRIUS and  LUPIN)
> So we implore you, Snape,
> Don't let this dirty rat escape
> He's Peter Pettigrew
> Don't let him flee to You Know Who 
> 
> 
> (SNAPE)
> When Neville in fine fettle, destroys another kettle,
> I just tear him apart.
> You'd be over-presumin'  that I could be kind-a human
> If I only had a heart.
> If I'm tender  or I'm gentle- they 'll think that I've gone mental
> It's better not to start
> It's The Kiss  for Black and Lupin
> 'Cause these children they've been dupin'
> I don't buy their crazy story
> (SIRIUS )
> And you're dyin' for some glory
> (LUPIN)
> And  a Merlin decoration to deserve
> 
> (SIRIUS) Then I won't get  to explain...
> (HARRY)And I'll never get a  home...
> (HERMIONE) If he only had a heart...
> (SIRIUS)  A brain...
> (SNAPE) What nerve!
> 
> (Hermione, Harry and Ron disarm Snape and knock him out)