It Makes a Fellow Proud (filk)

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 71892

It Makes a Fellow Proud to Lead the DA (OOP, Chap. 19)

To the tune of Tom Lehrer's It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier

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THE SCENE: Harry reflects upon the great strides made by the soldiers 
of Dumbledore's Army

HARRY:
My heart, a talisman, inside my chest with pride it glows
For the Hogwarts' youth, resisting Umbridge beneath her nose.
For we are creating just exactly what she fears the most
A Dark Art Defense Army for the Dumbledore of Hosts!

Now Neville's skill in magic was quite weak, we've sometimes felt
He never met a cauldron yet he didn't know how to melt
But our lessons worked just like a charm
As Neville each of us disarms
It makes a fellow proud to lead the DA!

When Colin came to Gryffindor, he made me quite annoyed       
He followed me about non-stop with his damn Polaroid 
But no more is he a detriment
Since he mastered Impediment
It makes a fellow proud to lead the DA!

Though Parvati may act like an airhead, she
Could turn Auror if she likes with what's she learned
With me as her instructor
She does such a mean Reductor
That our table now to dust has turned

Hermy's our intellectual, gets from books most every skill
She's just learned the Patronus Charm, through an intensive drill
It could not look any odder
Her Patron's a hairy otter
It makes a fellow proud to lead the DA!

Cho Chang Seeks for her Quidditch team, I think she's pretty cool
I still have to get a handle on the events of last year's Yule.
She will learn to combat the DEs 
If I can cope with my weak knees
It makes a fellow – tense - to lead the DA! 

Now, Luna Lovegood's taste runs to the strange and the bizarre 
She sprinkles conversations with words like "umgubular".
Despite talk of conspiracies
She is the gal who thestrals sees
It makes a fellow proud to lead the DA!

Ginny Weasley was the sweet and naïve type
Through his diary, Riddle played her like a pipe
That personae she's now shed
As she channels George and Fred
It's now guaranteed she'll make the Min'stry gripe

Our Professor has a handicap to cope with, so to speak
She a Borgia who is into pain, a truly sadistic freak 
But we'll meet every week until
We end her triumph of the quill.
And so we defy Umbridge
We're what her entourage allege
We'll push right over the edge with DA!

    -	CMC

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