[HPforGrownups] The Sorting Hat's Song

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 149210

potioncat wrote:
> The worst case was in church singing a hymn, and the words had to do 
> with something, something and fen...and I thought, "It's the Sorting 
> Hat's song!" I actually went home pulled up the  words to the hymn 
> and the words to the Sorting Hat song and compared them.
> 
> Unless 'fen' is more common in the UK, I wouldn't be surprised if 
> JKR hasn't sung the same hymn at some time.

	Or, it could be just basic music theory; the human brain is wired so 
that certain kinds of music and meters react well.

	Try taking any popular song, and putting the words to the music of the 
theme from Gilligans Island.

	Bart