another filk in the saga and a comment on Goyle, Sr.

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 80453

I (Ginger) had originally written: 
> > Harry has just removed the prophesy from the shelf.

Haggridd, wrote: 
I would not presume to rewrite your filk if you had not thrown it
> open to suggestions, but a fix occurred to me as I was thinking that
> your filk is about the prophecy itself, rather than about Sybill
> Trelawney.  (Note: pedantic comment to follow.  Be prepared.  The 
act
> of predicting the future is to "prophesy" with an "s", pronounced
> PROF-a-SIGH.  The inormation that someone prophesies is 
a "prophecy",
> with a "c", pronounced PROF-a-SEE.)

I now add:
Mea culpa, my friend.  You have pointed that out before.  (Mental 
note to self: Iron hands)

Haggridd continued:
> So instead of:
> >
> > P-R-O-P-H-E-T
> > By the name of Trelawny
> > P-R-O-P-H-E-T
> > That's her, SPT
> > 
> write:
> P-R-O-P-H-E-Cy
> By the hand of Trelawney
> P-R-O-P-H-E-CY
> That's her specialty.
 
> And you have now a natural title parodying the original song:
> "P-R-O-P-H-E-CY"

Now I have a suggestion:  I have noted before, much to my (and, 
apparently, only my) befuddlement, that the elder Goyle was not at 
the MoM that night, but the elder Crabbe was.  As far as I know, this 
is the only time that we have seen a Crabbe without his generational 
counterpart Goyle.  Of course, Goyle could have come in with the 
rest, tripped down the stairs, concussed himself and been thrown in a 
broom closet, but it still leaves another DE unaccounted for!

So my proposition:  let's give the elder Crabbe a solo.  We'll let 
him write it: 
So now we have-

P-R-O-F-E-S-E
Spell it out, the prophecy
P-R-O-F-E-S-E
Give it here, Harry

I never said he had talent.
Ginger