The Sorting Hat

[bnewman]

This song is part two of the song cycle Melissa Mielfée and the Omphalonian Orchid, a Harry Potter x Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fanfic.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

after the Sorting Hat Song from Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone

set to "The Frozen Logger" by James Stevens

listen to this song
 

/ A E7 / - A / -A7 D / E7 A /

 

Well, well, "Melissa Mielfée"

That's not a name I know

And yet your family name goes back

Two thousand years ago

 

A proud yet troubled history

From which you've been kept apart

In which you have a role to play

That makes you... hard to sort

 

The day will come, Melissa

When it's vengeance that you seek

Slytherin would give you that —

No need to play it meek

 

And yet your disposition

Is sweet, just like your name

You'll be a bee in Hufflepuff 

If sweetness is your aim

 

You'll be a bee in either house:

The honey, or the stinger?

You taste the sweetness on your tongue

Taste well, and let it linger

 

It's honey and hard work you'll need

To face your destiny

Melissa, I've made up my mind:

A Hufflepuff you'll be!

Comments

[madfilkentist]

I keep insisting in vain that the first book in the series should be called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," even by Americans. "Sorcerer's Stone" makes no sense and is the result of dumbing down the title for American readers.