Harry Potter Filks

Welcome to Harry Potter Filks, with over 3400 filks (including several dozen full-length musicals) by more than 250 authors from at least five continents, all on Rowling-related themes. Some of these filks were originally posted on the Yahoo discussion groups Harry Potter for Grownups or on Hog's Head. All material on this site is copyrighted: each filk is the property of its respective author. Please do not add these to your websites without permission from the authors (and we know some really good copyright lawyers).

This archive is arranged in three major categories. The first group are dramatizations of specific scenes (more or less) from J.K. Rowling's novels, while the second group are more generally based on the characters, things and places of her magical universe. The third group consists of sundry miscellany: new filks, full-length musicals, fully-filked Beatles' albums, Potterized nursery rhymes, Ginger's Master Index, and even more sundry miscellany.

THE HARRY POTTER NOVELS

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone •
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets •
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban •
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire •
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix •
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince •
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows •

CHARACTERS AND PLACES

• Hogwarts Faculty and Staff •
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Hogwarts Students and Their Families •
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Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters •
• Other Magical Characters and Places •

MISCELLANY

• New Filks  •
• Harry Potter - The Musical(s)  •
• Harry Potter and the Fab Four  •
• The Young Wizard's Songbook •
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Miscellaneous Miscellany •
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Ginger's Master Index •
• 
Index of Illustrations •
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In Memoriam: Dr. John Kusalavage •

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.

NEW FILKS MAY 2010: Five "old" new filks from 2005 by Lindsay Addison have been added, with solos for Snape, Arthur Weasley and Sirius,and a duet for Voldemort and Fudge.

NEW FILKS JUNE 2010: Veteran filker The Final Stillness of Saturn is back with her first filk since last summer, a solo for Teddy Lupin, from DH's epilogue

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. 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. 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 surely you've read them all at least twice by now.....)

Counsel suggests that I provide a DISCLAIMER, and here you shall have it: Harry Potter Filks is 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).

Providing Sirius music since August 2 2001, well before the onset of Sirius XM. Most recently updated June 16 2010.

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