Harry Potter Filks
CURRENT NEW FILKS POLICY: All new contributions will be immediately uploaded to the New Filks page. They will remain there for 90 days, after which they will be "sorted" to their permanent home. Each new filk is dated, so the reader will be able to readily identify the newest material.
UPDATE AUGUST 2009: Our new filks page hasn't offered so much content since the days of unpublished Canon! We are proud to premiere JustLivePosthumously's full-length HBP musical, You're a Good Man, Dumbledore, based on Clark Gesner's Peanuts musical. After the relentless action of the first five books, why not slow things down to a four-panel-a-day pace for a while? Draco's take on Snoopy's Suppertime gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Death Eaters." Additionally, veteran filker The Final Stillness of Saturn offers five new filks, including first-time ever solos for Millicent Bulstrode, Seamus Finnegan and Romilda Vane, as well as songs for Zacharias Smith and HBP-the-Movie!Ginny. And another veteran filker, LiteraryLuminary, returns after a long absence for a moving meditation on Lily Potter's maternity.
One of our on-going projects on HPF is to create at least one solo filk for as many of the Potterverse characters as possible. Here's our listing of all the characters who have solos so far (which, given the high population density of the Wizarding World, is easier than writing a list of all the characters who don't have solos). This listing also links to the first solo written for each character.
Most of our illustrations are from the effervescent brush of Red Scharlach. The tuneful Judy Nathanson sings her own HP filks as well as a selection of filks by Pippin, Caius Marcius and She-Who-Must-Not-Be Named. See our other recommendations on the links page.
Filks written after OOP (i.e., 6/21/03) are marked with a single asterisk, those written after HBP (i.e., 07/16/05) are marked with two asterisks, and those written after DH (07/21/07) are marked with three asterisks to enable readers to more easily determine which songs were written when. And if you especially enjoy a filk, please consider dropping a line to the author. The feedback is always appreciated! (e-mail links are provided for nearly all of our contributors). YOU'VE WRITTEN A POTTER FILK YOU'D LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE? This site is updated with new filks whenever I receive them. Unsolicited contributions are welcome - send them to Caius Marcius. However, that address is apparently having some issues, and some correspondence lately sent to me has not come through. I will always reply to anyone who sends me a filk, even if it totally absolutely abysmally sucks (and I'll be somewaht more diplomatic in my rejection, I promise), so if you don't hear back from me, it's probably because your message was misdirected by Internet Pixies or Doxies. If I don't respond within a week, try re-sending your message, or send it to this alternate address (which, alas, I've also had problems with). Tell me how you'd like to be ID'd as author, and if you'd like an e-mail/website/blog/Facebook/Etc link. I get (like everyone else) tons of spam, so be sure to put something HP-related in the title, lest it be deleted unread (another reason you might not hear back from me is that your subject line did not suffice to appropriately identify the content). Warning! Massive spoilers for all seven Harry Potter novels (but no spoilers as yet for Beadle the Bard.) Our search engine effectively engineers your searches. Enter Keywords:Wishing to avoid the fate of Steve Vander Ark, it has been suggested that I provide a DISCLAIMER, and here you shall have it: Harry Potter Filks is - mirable dictu - NOT OFFICIAL. The characters who burst into glorious song on this site belong lock, stock and Quirrell to the great and good J.K. Rowling. All of our contributors desire only to augment, not detract from, both her critical & her commercial success, as well as the success of her many affiliates (well, most of them). We ourselves make no money, lose much time and have great fun in operating this site, as we, like Timon's moon, snatch our pale fire from the sun of her magical achievement (10 points to the house of your choice to the first person who can explicate this allusion). Potterizing the corpus of popular music one song (or musical) at a time since August 2 2001. Most recently updated August 15 2009.
