F**KED MONDAY - HARRY AND THE POTTERS

Harry and the Potters

I’ve always known HARRY POTTER was kinda a big deal. Every time a book came out or a new film was screening you’d see a news story about all these ‘muggles’ coming out, camping in their HARRY POTTER branded sleeping bags, and lining up for days to get the first book/ticket.

And that’s fine, I enjoyed seeing some of the Harry Potter movies. I tried to read a HARRY POTTER book once, but I just couldn’t get into it…maybe it was due to seeing other Harry potter fans on the news, seeing how obsessed they were, and I was a little scared because I didn’t want to love it so much that I would end up being on the feel-good-at-the-end-of-the-6 O’clock-news story brandishing a semi-permanent lightning strike tattoo on my forehead above my makeshift HARRY POTTER glasses.

Well…in terms of HARRY POTTER fans these guys not only take the cake, but they ram it down their throats like there’s no tomorrow. I’m talking about HARRY AND THE POTTERS.

These blokes are in a band and make music about Harry Potter and his life experiences as documented in the books and films…but they’re not the only ones. There’s also DRACO AND THE MALFOYS, THE REMUS LUPINS, THE WHOMPING WILLOWS, CELESTIAL WARMBOTTOM, AND THE CEDRIC DIGGORYS…and they’re all making HARRY POTTER based music. Right now I have to admit that I am seriously considering hitting the delete button on this F**KED MONDAY but I’m going to continue. Where did I here about this strange breed of Uber-HARRY-POTTER-Fans? Right here

The documentary WE ARE WIZARDS (featuring HARRY AND THE POTTERS), a few beers, and a fistful of Xanax got me to thinking this was a good idea. I’m not so sure now. The documentary was thoroughly entertaining although a little long winded. The other highlight was a bloke named BRAD NEELY who loved HARRY POTTER so much that he took the original film, wrote his own script and recorded it to disk so other fans could watch the film with his over-dubbing. And it is fucking hilarious. You can check out part one here.

Anyway, they call this WROCK. It’s short for WIZARD ROCK. A whole genre of music dedicated to people singing about HP. check out HARRY AND THE POTTERS performing at the WONDER BALLROOM in PORTLAND, OREGON to see just how much these guys love HARRY POTTER and also how much their fans love HARRY POTTER as well as how much their fans love how much HARRY AND THE POTTERS love HARRY POTTER. OH DEAR…welcome to F**KED MONDAY.

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