Harry Potter Things Happen When I Am Bored

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Funny things happen when I am bored. Funny things relating to Harry Potter. Like the Black family tree I made up on the plane ride back from England, everything exactly right, spanning back 5 generations and across 17 branches of the family (I had to make up a lot of things, obviously; but I managed to connect everything she DOES say in the right places . . . ). Also, weird songs.

The good ones I have for today are all related to Sirius Black.

To the tune of "The Ballad of Billy the Kid"

From a manor house in high class wizard London
Came a boy with a wand clenched in his hand.
And what people thought was his crime
Made him a legend in his time,
East and west of wizarding England.

He befriended werewolves when he was a boy at Hogwarts
And with his teachers he was always cut some slack.
For his stunning sullen style
And his mischeivous smile
He got a reputation, Sirius Black.

Well, he was an Animagi
And his motorbike could fly.
And though he came off as a loner, he had many friends.
But he never had a sweetheart,
And he was shunned by his family,
But he never was disloyal to his friends.

Well, his loyalty wasn't fully recognized.
He was locked up for a crime he hadn't done.
But as a dog, and innocent
He followed his best friend's scent
And returned, escaped, to protect his old friend's son.

Well, one day Black was in the rough again.
His godson met up with a cousin Black.
And his own betrayed kin
Fought with him once again
And that was the end of Sirius Black.

Well, he was an Animagi
And his motorbike could fly.
And though he came off as a loner, he had many friends.
But he never had a sweetheart,
And he was shunned by his family,
But he never was disloyal to his friends.

To the tune of "The House of the Rising Sun"

There is a house in Grimmauld Place
In which live the "Toujours Pur,"
And though in ruins, it remains to me
A reminder of the way the old times were.

The only thing I was ever taught
Was that blood was only good pure.
I didn't believe a word of it;
I wasn't meant to be "Toujours Pur."

I resisted heartily
But my brother did not do the same.
So it was I who was the failure;
The stain on the family name.

My mother did disown me
But leaving was my choice.
I couldn't stay a minute more
In that place where I had no voice.

If I had listened to what mother said,
I'd have turned out evil, I say.
Thank Merlin I got out of there;
I'm free and on my way.

Oh my brother, oh my cousins:
Of my mother, don't listen to her!
She'll only bring you misery
In the House of Toujours Pur.

Now, times they are a-changin';
The dark ways have come back.
Ironically, the Order's base
Is in the Noble House of Black.

Going back to Grimmauld Place;
Things feel as the way they were.
I'm stuck back here in my old Hell:
The House of Toujours Pur.