FILK: This Year at Hogwarts

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 177805

This Year at Hogwarts (DH, Chap. 29)

To the tune of One Night In Bangkok, from musical
Chess by Benny Anderson, Bjorn Ulvaeus & Tim Rice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn4IqAlDdZY

THE SCENE: The Room of Requirement, set up as a safe haven for 
Dumbledore's Army. NEVILLE, with the DA CHORUS, implore the Trio to 
assist him in freeing Hogwarts.

NEVILLE:
Hogwarts!  Monumental trouble
Where ev'ry new day the atrocities double
The scum of the earth in a grand convergence
Helped bring about this room's emergence

Watch out! Walk the straight and narrow
Or detention you'll get with sis and bro Carrow
Dark Arts! They have no pretenses
That they're teaching a thing but the worst offenses

We've Gryffindor – and Hufflepuffs – and Ravenclaws- in this Room!

DUMBLEDORE ARMY CHORUS:
This year at Hogwarts we see Dark polluting
Their blood is purer, but the pure ain't chaste
Though Dumble's Army still goes on recruiting,
If you should sign up, you'll be cruelly chased
By their zeal to have us one and all erased.

NEVILLE:
They think that I hit the bottom
Never did they reckon on the new Longbottom

CHORUS:
He has scars, he has welts, and his face is real puffy
Who knew wimpy Neville would change to such a toughie?

NEVILLE (modestly):
Whaddya mean? You've seen Michael Corner, Seamus Finnegan, you've -

CHORUS:
Neville found this suite
Requirement room where our choir's meant to meet

NEVILLE:
No sweat! `Cause I'm the son of Aurors
Acquainted with the starkest of horrors
I ain't Alecto's Muggle-Studies buddy
.. 

CHORUS:
This year at Hogwarts could make courage crumble
If not for Neville who has pulled us through
He's fighting Snapey, who's the anti-Dumble
The foremost advocate of You-Know-Who
We would love to drown him in a thick shampoo.

NEVILLE:
We all wanna see a contest
Where the Chosen One will the Voldemort wand best
You've got to stick around to
Stick it to Voldy and Snapey in Round Two.

We need you running this game, controlling it
.

No need to prove you've been hot
You broke the bank to get into Gringotts
Just let us know how we can aid you
We are here to serve, don't be afraid to

Or will you go back to Abby's bar, your tentings, your Shell 
Cottages
.?

CHORUS:
This year at Hogwarts, counter-revolution
Is what we're needing to set our school free
We count on you to find us the solution 
Don't count us out account of secrecy 
Let the DA prove to you its loyalty

This year at Hogwarts could see valor vanquished
We need the Trio back here holding sway
We're fighting Snapey, he's a bug we can squish
If you're up to leaping, we'll provide the fray 
Listen, please, to Neville, don't turn us away.

   -	CMC

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