Oh my God.

[kiraseldon]

HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS BEFORE.

Genius, sheer bloody genius.

The plot of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, as a filk of T.S. Eliot's The Wastelands.

Comments

[lokaichan]

Whoa.

I think, to really appreciate that filk, I would have to (a) have read HBP more than once, (b) have read T.S. Eliot's The Wastelands (I always meant to get around to it...) and (c) have more patience for reading classic poetry than I currently possess.

But I read it anyway. ^^;; And found it occasionally funny but mostly bizarre.

[kiraseldon]

You definitely have to have read the Wastelands to get it, because there is at least as much fun being poked at T.S.Eliot as at J.K. Rowlings.

Try here for the poem. It's worth a read.

If only because, after reading it, the filk will make you fall out of your seat laughing.

[kiraseldon]

I'm an idiot. It's The Waste Land. And here I've got the correct title on an open window on my Start bar and everything. *headdesks*

[ladysisyphus]

You don't have to have read HBP more than once. We didn't read it more than once. The filk was just sort of a bit of horror that sprung from our heads full-formed, like Athena, only less graceful. Far less graceful. ...I'm not going to spoil everyone's illusions as to how long and hard we slaved over this, but, uh, take your shortest estimation and divide it by half.

...And hello! Just vanitysearching myself over at ljseek, and being amused that people are still linking to this monstrosity. Amused in a good way, though! *preen*