FILK: "The Quidditch Match"

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 56178

Caius
This is a filk of the song "The Baseball Game" from the Clark Gesner 
musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", titled "The Quidditch 
Match".  This version is from the original Off-Broadway production.  
I do not know if there have been any changes in the 1999 Broadway 
Revival.

You can find the original music at the following link:

http://www.broadwaymidi.com/shows/youre_a_good_man_charlie_brown.html

Italicized passages are indicated by enclosing them within asterisks.

This filk is dedicated to Gail Bohacek.


               The Quidditch Match

SCENE:  Oliver Wood is relating the strange events that occurred 
during the 1992 Gryffindor-Slytherin Quidditch match (Harry's second 
year).

OLIVER WOOD:
There is no team, like the best team,
Which is our team right here.
Gryffindor team is the best team
In the Hogwarts Quidditch league this year.

And in no time we'll be big-time,
I just know our turn's come up;
For all we have to do is just beat Slytherin
And we'll win the House Quidditch Cup.

*Dear pen-pal...*

You'll never guess what happened today at the Quidditch match.
It's hard to believe what happened today at the Quidditch match.
I was the Keeper and Harry was Seeker,
The rest of the tean was the same as always,
But somehow or other disaster struck at the Quidditch match.

Saturday morn, we got up quite early, our hearts were stout.
Eleven o' clock, and Madam Hooch let all the four balls out.
Slytherin quickly led sixty to nought,
We thought they could never be caught, I tell you
The Gryffindor Seven would never win if soon they didn't get hot.

Katie Bell scored by catching the Quaffle 
And tossing it right through the hoop.
Angelina and Alicia Spinnet
Flew in a precise "loop-the-loop".

Fred and George Weasley, our Beaters,
Each wielded his Bat.
They tried to prevent either Bludger 
>From squashing us flat.

Harry looked up and then he caught sight of the Golden Snitch
Fluttering high way up in the sky of the Quidditch pitch.
Somebody tampered and made a Rogue Bludger
It hit him before he could twitch.

Dear pen-pal, I'm sure our Professors mean us no harm,
But when Gilderoy Lockhart was finished, Harry had no arm.

Yours in Fellowship,
Oliver Wood


-Haggridd