The best Harry Potter fan videos, comedy sketches, and other viral oddities
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Given that the entire planet’s been in throes of Pottermania for over a decade, the internet’s churned out tons of funny (and profoundly bizarre) video tributes to J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard. Here are some of the best.
The 8-Bit Harry Potter Interactive YouTube Game
Harry’s incessant adventures have left him delinquent in his studies, and he must attend summer school at Hogwart’s. A Final Fantasy-style choose-your-own-adventure game for those with time to kill.
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The man behind the Potter magic
Source: smh.com.au
Thirteen years ago, David Heyman set out to buy the movie rights to an as-yet-unpublished novel aimed at young readers.
The book was Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and soon Heyman found himself on the adventure of a lifetime as the producer of each and every film based on J.K. Rowling’s best-selling series.
Now, the end is near.
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At home at Hogwarts
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Clearly something is going on that cuts deeper than simple story excitement, fan fidelity and a romping adventure. This kind of phenomenon, in which a story becomes a permanent myth before our very eyes, comes along not once a generation but once an epoch. When I saw the first Harry Potter film, the audience was full of children the same age as Harry, Ron and Hermione. The young viewers, the child actors and the fictional Gryffindor trio have grown up at the same time. In a genius of casting, chemistry, production speed, longevity and contract negotiation, nearly all the major character cast has stayed the same, bolstering the feeling that Harry’s magical family is an extension of our own and that its world is continuing in real time as we go about our business here.
Harry Potter is at once the ultimate wish fulfilment and the ultimate nightmare. There is the dark magical world that recognises children’s experience of cruelty, injustice and violence, their long psychological fallout and the victims’ desire to transcend. Or, if not to transcend, then to gain allies in the form of a powerful surrogate family and then to avenge themselves. To those who have grown up with the films, Ron is the ultimate laidback best friend, the Great Hall feasts are the ultimate comfort food, Hogwarts is the ultimate playground. And that surrogacy is echoed in the stories themselves: the school is the home Harry never had; the Weasleys are the parents he never had; Ron and Hermione are the siblings he never had; Voldemort’s desire to kill him gives him something to do because before (like so many Potter fans, surely), he was frustrated in suburbia.
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What do you think of the second SMH article? I found it a very interesting read.
Plus it still surprises me to think that it was a decade ago that Harry Potter first came to light to the general public!
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