| HARRY HUMOR A Healthy Serving of "Potter Roast" in the form of "Filk Songs" When you see a box above a song that says play this song, click on it to hear it sung. |
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| Poetry and Song Lyrics written to pay tribute to the the Harry Potter Stories are done SOLELY for that purpose and are not written, nor posted on web sites, nor performed for any remuneration to the myself. They are not connected in any way with the publishers (Bloomsbury or Scholastic), nor with Warner Brothers, nor with the book series' author, JK Rowling) All images and characters are trademarks of Warner Bros. © 2000 Photos from the movie ©Warner Bros. - Use this link to "Postscript" All other writing, unless otherwise noted, © 2000 by Judy Nathanson With heartfelt thanks to HPGalleries |
| What are Filk Songs? Filk Songs were inspired by fans as far back as the 1960’s when folk music was very popular. Fans of science fiction, fantasy and soap operas would choose popular songs of the time, usually folk songs when the tradition started, and put their own lyrics to them. The songs depicted events in the stories and information about the characters and usually followed the format of the original songs from which the melodies were borrowed. For example, in “Hello Dolly”, the last line is “Dolly’ll never go away again”, and in the filk “Hello Dobby” the last line is “Dobby’ll never be a slave again!” Another noted feature of filk songs is their humor. They are often satires of the stories and characters written by fans who know them very well. I hope you will enjoy this collection of my own filks as well as those written by the talented writers who have allowed me to publish their filk songs on this site. |
| By Judy Nathanson |
| By *Guest Writers whose names appear with their filk songs |
| My grand-niece Julia tries her hand at dark magic! |
| *Thanks to Caius Marcius, Pippin and She Who Must Not Be Named |