FILK, sort of: A Snape ther was

[or.phan_ann]

No: HPFGUIDX 177264

A SNAPE ther was, and that a nasty man
That fro the tyme that he first bigan
To teche Potiouns, he loved accuracye,
And abilitee, but nat curteisye.
Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre,		
And to lengths hadde he gonne (no man ferre)
As wel in Hogwarts as in Malfoynesse,
And never honoured for his worthinesse.
  At cauldron's side he was, whan they blew up;
Ful ofte tyme his pupils hadde screw up
Aboven all classes in thatte school.
'Idiot' hadde he seyd and eek 'You fool!',
No teaching man so ofte of his degree.
At Voldemorte's last sege eek hadde he be
Of the school, and hidden in the Shack.
For he hadde Eten Deeth, then changed tack
And spyed for Dumbledore secretly
Many tymes a traytor hadde he be.
At mortal perilles hadde he been fiftene,
And foughten for our side, always unseen
And duelled thryes, and ay slayn his fo.
With the Riotoures had he been also
And eek Lily, whanne they were all at school
Of which came Sirius' pranke cruelle
And evermore they hadde a mightee hate
Which later sent that Dogge to his fate,
And for his yonge errors he had payde.
He never yet no vileinye unsayde
In al his lyf, un-to no maner wight
And to his pupils was a feersome sight.
But for to tellen yow of his array,
His robes were gode, but he was nat gay.
Of black he wered a Professor's geoun
Al greasy with his long hair hanging down;
For he was late y-come from his short lyf,
And wol now resten from his grief and strife.

I don't think there's anything I can say in defence of this, so I'll
just link to an online version:
http://www.richardbrodie.com/Chaucer/Prologue.html - fourth paragraph
down - for comparisons, apologise to the shade of Geoffrey Chaucer,
and hope that you think my words worth rather more than a turd.

Ann