You're Getting To Be a Habit With Me (a filk)

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 79762

This is a filk of the song by the same title from the musical Forty-
Second Street, and the second filk in the new filk musical version 
of 42nd Street, "At 12 Grimmauld Place.

I dedicate this filk to Frankie.


You're Getting To Be a Habit With Me 

SCENE: DADA Professor Dolores Umbridge remarks on how many 
detentions Harry Potter has incurred in so short a time.

DOLORES UMBRIDGE:
I don't know exactly why you shouted,
But you shouted so loud;
I thought sending you to your Head of House
Would make you less proud.
But now I realize that you could never let it go,
And I'm bound to tell you so.  (*hem, hem*)

Ev'ry class, I surmise
That you just keep telling lies;
You're getting to be a habit with me.

Despite tears, despite cries,
Your behavior I'll chastise;
You're getting to be a habit with me.

I used to think your behavior I could fix
By sheer force of my will,
But now I know that you must feel the pricks 
Of my special black quill.

Oh, you can't break away.
I must have you ev'ry day
To teach you to speak the truth properly.
.
I've got you in detention
And you can't break free.
You're getting to be a habit with me.

Oh, you can't break away.
I must have you ev'ry day
To teach you to speak the truth properly.

I've got you in detention
And you can't break free.
You're getting to be a habit with me.

-Haggridd