FILK: The High Inquisitor Song

[Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 69568

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> Hogwarts High Inquisitor
> A filk by Pippin to the tune of 
> Gilbert and Sullivan's Major General Song
> Hear the original at 
> http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pirates/p13.mid
> 
> Note: for purposes of this filk, Voldemort is pronounced with 
> silent 't'
> 
> UMBRIDGE
> I am the very model of a Hogwarts High Inquisitor
> I sit in back of every class as if I was a visitor
> There'll be no deviation while I serve as  an inhibitor
> From subjects in the syllabus which you will all be quizzing for
> Although I do not soil my hands  with matters strictly practical
> I am the prefect parody of educratic folderal
> As I bring Hogwarts to its knees with educational decrees
> From twenty-two to twenty-eight in Ministry bureaucrat-ese
> 
> ALL:
> From twenty-two to twenty-eight in Ministry bureaucrat-ese (3x)
> 

etc. etc.

As Ron might say, "Bloody brilliant!" Bravo, Pippin. Interesting that 
you and I both thought of filking Umbridge to Gilbert & Sullivan 
songs. But you picked Major General, which is a much tougher song to 
work with (IMO) than Behold the Lord High Executioner (which was 
actually the song that popped into my head when I read the phrase 
Hogwarts High Inquisitor). So, I bow down to your superior creation:-)

Anne U
(who wonders if JKR is a G&S fan, since she's given us such G&S-
worthy material)