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…)