FILK: In the Eyes of Minerva

[Kelly L. <kethlenda@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49557

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Caius Marcius 
<coriolan_cmc at h...>" <coriolan_cmc at h...> wrote:
> Almost 700 filks on HPF - and - would you believe it? - not a 
single 
> solo for Minerva McGonagall!
> 
> Until now.........

Dear Caius,

Thank you for kindly dedicating your McGonagall filk to me. :) I 
enjoyed it, and it has inspired me to write another McGonagall filk.  
OK, so it's *about* her rather than from her POV, but here goes:

"In the Eyes of Minerva"
a FILK by Kelly L. 
to the tune of "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan; the original is here:
http://www.findmidis.com/download.go/830

Sung by HARRY:

School rules we were breaking,
Risking Basilisk's glance,
For Hermione'd been Petrified.
And we though Moaning Myrtle
Might know something of use,
For 'twas at the Heir's hands she had died.
We ran down the hallway
And trouble was there.
McGonagall stood in our way;
"What are you doing?
She asked us, and I lied,
Said, "We're going to see Herm tonight."

In the eyes of Minerva,
I can see a tear.
In that hard-nosed professor
There may be a soft heart, I do fear.
Behind tortoise-shell glasses
There's a glistening I can see
In the eyes of Minerva,
I could swear I just saw a tear.

Final match against Slytherin,
For the school Quidditch Cup,
And the Gryffs haven't won it in years.
And with Wood graduating
This may be our last chance.
It's the last time that we'll all be here.
When the Gryffs were up sixty,
I lunged for the Snitch,
Then I held that ball in my hands,
And there was Minerva--
She was sobbing like mad
Into a red-and-gold flag in the stands.

In the eyes of Minerva,
I can see a tear.
In that hard-nosed professor
There may be a soft heart, I do fear.
Behind tortoise-shell glasses
There's a glistening I can see
In the eyes of Minerva,
I could swear I just saw a tear.

In the eyes of Minerva,
I could swear I just saw a tear.

(Kelly L., 2003)