(filk) "Starry, Starry Night"

[Lilac]

No: HPFGUIDX 43828


"Starry, Starry Night" (or "Sinistra's Song")

to the tune of "Vincent" ("Starry, Starry Night") by Don McClean

 

Dedicated to Gail

 

NOTE:  I've taken some of the info/discussions on the list about Sinistra and put into this filk, since we don't know very much about him/her from canon.  The idea that the Astronomy tower is the make-out hot-spot is taken from various fan-fics I've read.  I promise when we find out more about Sinistra, I'll re-write this.  My apologies to Don McClean, Vincent Van Gogh, and everyone who loves the original song, because my version is a little weird.     

 

PROF. SINISTRA

Starry, starry night

Students in the tallest tower

Meeting at ungodly hours

To study all the constellations high

The stars we classify

Looking through our telescopes 

Finding new stars, one can hope

We're diligent in studying the sky

 

Students ask me why

I like to teach astronomy

I don’t know the answer, obviously

There’s not much written about me 

In future books we may find how

I’m important plot-wise now.

 

Starry, Starry night

On Christmas I danced with Moody

I must say that he's no cutie

But you assume that a female am I

Perhaps hermaphrodite

*What* am I? One can guess

Beneath my robes is there a dress

Or pants to let you know just what I am?

 

Students understand

Some of what I teach tonight

But their minds wander to their sights

To pick a spot to have a snog

They were listening, they're not listening now

Class is dismissed now

 

They think they’re creative

But I know the truth

That when the stars are shining bright

On the starry, starry nights

The lovers crowd in here at half past two

But I don’t have to tell Dumbledore

The students use this tower for romantic interludes

 

Starry, starry night

Walking through the Hogwarts halls

Portraits snoozing on the walls

The sleeping students now I follow suit

The point is hardly moot

Though I can be dextrous and deft

My name's not *right*, it means to the *left*

But others think that *sinister* ‘s the root

 

Don't give me the boot

Almost over is my song

I know that it was very long

Since there’s not so much to tell

Perhaps book five I’ll tell my tale

And then you’ll know me well



 

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"Tut, tut --- hardly any of you remembered that my favorite color is *lilac*. 

I say so in Year with the Yeti."         --Gilderoy Lockhart, COS



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