Macarena and Cheese
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Pennfana
Member Since 2005 | 38 Stories | Favorited by 15 | 134 Reviews Written | 358 Review Responses
I always feel extremely strange when I'm writing these things, having never really been all that good at talking about myself. In any case, here are the basics: I'm a 41-year-old Canadian who started reading the Harry Potter books about twenty years (!) ago just to see what all the fuss was about. I wrote my first fanfic about a year later, and I've been semi-active in the fandom ever since. I am very musical; I play the bagpipes, I've played the violin since I was about nine years old and I sing with two choirs (a community choir I've been singing with since 1997 and a church choir I've been singing with since late 2008). Writing is also one of my many obsessions, and (much to my relief) the monstrous case of writer's block which grabbed me for a couple of years seems to be gradually letting go. Even so, should I submit any chaptered fics here, it's reasonable to assume that the updates will be pretty far apart even if they're actually finished before I start posting. It's not intentional; I'm just, at times, a little forgetful.
Reviews for Macarena and Cheese
How did I miss this? This is absolutely hilarious and brilliant!
~applauds~
I really can't believe I never reviewed this before. It cracks me up every time I read it. Which is probably every few months...<3
Response from Pennfana (Author of Macarena and Cheese)
Thanks, lin! Glad to hear it.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Macarena and Cheese)
Thanks, lin! Glad to hear it.
LMAO!!! This was hilarious, oh god I can just picture them all doing the Macarena LOL. Now I have that song running through my head now. Thanks for the chuckle
Response from Pennfana (Author of Macarena and Cheese)
And thank you for reviewing. 
If there's one thing I love to do, it's make people laugh.
I must have missed this last week. I was chortling the entire time.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Macarena and Cheese)
Thanks, blue. 
Voldemort doing the macarena is funny. Severus being forced to learn it by threat of Crucio is hilarious! :)
Response from Pennfana (Author of Macarena and Cheese)
And the real-life timing of the height of Macarena's popularity was just too perfect...I couldn't resist. Even Voldemort might have fallen victim to one of the least-deadly but most-annoying epidemics the world has ever known. 
Ahh... for once, my appetite for the absurd is sated.I honestly don't know what I was expecting when I clicked on the title, but this delivers and then some on so many levels.I love the cheese angle, and love the music angle. This is just the complete package.I have to think you're a fan of Phineas and Ferb, since your OOC Tedious One is so Dr. Dufenschmirtz. ("He's so deliciously eeevil.") Dare I hope for a companion piece that includes "Squirrels in My Pants" or "Shake your Asteroid"? Surely it's not too much to expect a Carameldansen hen party with Luna, Ginny, and Pansy?Bravissima! Encore!
Response from Pennfana (Author of Macarena and Cheese)
Actually, I'd never heard of Phineas and Ferb until last night's chat, when the conversation turned to squirrels. Mind, though I'm not a fan of them already, I get a feeling I'm going to be very, very soon. 
As to the rest, well, I've always enjoyed a healthy dose of the absurd myself, which is probably due to the fact that I've been reading Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and Jane Austen since my early teens. And I don't often do sequels because I'm always afraid they won't live up to the original, but maybe sometime soon I'll be moved to do a follow-up with one or more of those songs. God knows the Death Eaters don't tend to end up with much dignity left once I put them in the same room as music...I'm very glad that you enjoyed this, and I'm extremely glad that my sense of humour is funny to more people than just me.
Response from Rose of the West (Reviewer)
It's so funny that you don't know P&F! Your OOC Voldemort is a dead ringer for Dr. Doofenshmirtz. I actually "heard" the same voice as I read it.I couldn't find a good quality version of this in English without showing the whole episode, so here it is in Spanish:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU6lyOcmX7YThe guy in the labcoat is Volde--um, Doofenshmirtz.
I do not claim my child (Ravenscara) or her strange ideas, So on that note this was a very good story if slightly (really) strange. Scary how you imagined the Macarena and Voldemort. Your imagination is off the charts. Good job.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Macarena and Cheese)
Thanks, sevi. "Really strange" seems to be my speciality. Perhaps I should be worried about what that means for my sanity?
Absolutely hilarious and the perfect name to boot! 
Response from Pennfana (Author of Macarena and Cheese)
Thank you so much, HD. I do love making people laugh.
I don't know how I missed this piece of hilarity until now, but I'm sooooooo glad my wait is over!
I could share (not give it up completely, mind) my best cookie for a look at an army of death eaters dancing the Macarena. The icing would have been tecktonik but the robes might get in the way.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Macarena and Cheese)
Yes, that could be a bit of a problem. Thanks for reviewing, and I'm glad you enjoyed the fic. :)
This is a hilarious story. My one regret is that in order to tweak your Spanish lyrics a bit, I had to go listen to the Macarena on YouTube and now it's stuck in my head. I would suggest instead of your:Adopte una actitud de la victoria, Voldemort,Y dénos mucho miedo de su gloria maléfico!that you change it to:Adopte actitud de la victoria, Voldemort,Y dénos mucho miedo por su gloria maligna!You can get by without the indefinite article in the first line, and I think it fits the music better that way. Same reason for finding a three-syllable synonym for "evil" instead of a four-syllable one(and which has to be feminine, btw, to agree grammatically with "gloria"). The "por" is "for" in the sense of "because of." Hope this helps.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Macarena and Cheese)
*facepalm* That really was a stupid mistake. I should've known that the synonym for "evil" has to agree with the gender of "gloria"...I don't speak Spanish, rather obviously, but I do speak a bit of French and Italian, both of which have precisely the same rule of agreement.Thank you so much for reviewing, and I'll make those changes (and give you the credit for them, of course!) when I have the time.