A/N. As in all traditional English boarding schools, the Hogwarts houses
have their own stirringly patriotic House Songs. Severus' Sorting Song
(recently posted by the magisterial Sphinx) inspired this effort, also
based on a G&S number from The Pirates of Penzance. I didn't mean to do
it, but the first line just leapt into my head unbidden…it's not as clever
as Sphinx's song, and it doesn't scan as well either, but have mercy, it's
my first fanfic effort.
(On reflection, the Pirate King's song seemed rather apt for Slytherin: the original ditty has more than its fair share of irony, while G&S's pirates were all noblemen-in-disguise. So no mudbloods there. No Purchased Furniture either.)
The Slytherin House Song
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the serpent flag we fly
Than play a sanctimonious part
With Ravenclaw head or Gryffindor heart.
Away into Helga's house go you,
her students make a worthy crew;
But I'll be true to the song I sing
and live and die a Slytherin.
For I am a Slytherin!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Slytherin
(repeat…)
When I sally forth to start each day,
I help myself in a brazen way.
I bend a few more rules, it's true,
Than a well-bred student ought to do!
But many a mage from a muggle home
If he wants to hold the house-cup's chrome
Must manage somehow to get through
More dirty work than ever I do.
For I am a Slytherin!
And it is, it is a glorious thing,
To be a Slytherin!
(repeat…)
(On reflection, the Pirate King's song seemed rather apt for Slytherin: the original ditty has more than its fair share of irony, while G&S's pirates were all noblemen-in-disguise. So no mudbloods there. No Purchased Furniture either.)
The Slytherin House Song
Oh, better far to live and die
Under the serpent flag we fly
Than play a sanctimonious part
With Ravenclaw head or Gryffindor heart.
Away into Helga's house go you,
her students make a worthy crew;
But I'll be true to the song I sing
and live and die a Slytherin.
For I am a Slytherin!
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Slytherin
(repeat…)
When I sally forth to start each day,
I help myself in a brazen way.
I bend a few more rules, it's true,
Than a well-bred student ought to do!
But many a mage from a muggle home
If he wants to hold the house-cup's chrome
Must manage somehow to get through
More dirty work than ever I do.
For I am a Slytherin!
And it is, it is a glorious thing,
To be a Slytherin!
(repeat…)
