Over on my Instagram account, I got a request to do the Harry Potter tag! I
thought that I'd already answered pretty much every question you possibly could
about Harry Potter on my youtube channel. But, just in case, I looked up the
questions and, what do you know! I was wrong. And if you know me, you know I am
always up for talking about Harry Potter. If you are too, give me a thumbs up! So
there are a few different sets of Harry Potter tag questions out there, so I
decided to take my favorites from all of them and add a few of my own. I'll put
them in the video description below in case you'd like to read them or answer
them yourself! And there will be some mild spoilers for the books, the movies,
and one question about cursed child if you're still avoiding those. Okay! Let's
jump into it. Favorite book? I usually say Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but
I also really love Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I'm interested in
rereading them so that I can see if that still holds up as my favorite. Books or
movies? Is this even a question? Books! Favorite quote? "Anything is
possible if you've got enough nerve." Ginny Weasley. Favorite female character?
Luna Lovegood, for sure. I love Luna. She's amazing. Favorite male
character? Neville Longbottom. Are there any non-binary characters? Just
statistically, I'd be surprised if there weren't any non-binary characters in the
books. I would personally love to hear more about this. I've heard some
interesting fan theories, I'm sure there's some awesome fan fiction out
there that covers this whole thing. Maybe it'll be like a Dumbledore situation
where JK Rowling will bless us with some information after the fact, but not
actually include any LGBT representation in the books themselves. We'll see!
Favorite Weasley? Got to go with Fred. Favorite villain? I think I'm going to
say Snape. Even knowing everything that we know about him, I would still consider
him to be a villain, given that he antagonized all of the main characters. I
did a whole video about him if you want to hear me ramble about Snape some more.
Favorite professor? Ah man, I love Minerva McGonagall. That woman is freaking
awesome. Is there a character that you felt differently about in the movies?
Ginny was such a badass in the books and I wish they'd included just a little
tiny bit of that in the movies. I have no idea why you would take a character
like that who's so full of fire and energy and just turn her into... a prop? Is
that, I mean, she kind of is! I also prefer Harry and his sass in the books. If you
take the scene from the movies where Harry takes the felix felicis and goes
off and has an amazing day, the level of snark and sass is kind of what I saw in
Harry in the books the whole time. He is so sarcastic and funny and they didn't
really carry that through to the movies for whatever reason. Is there a movie
that you prefer to the book? Um, no... no no. Can't say that there is. Is there any
aspect of the books that you'd want to change? I definitely think that the Harry
Potter series is lacking in representation. Knowing what an impact
this series and its characters had on me growing up, I want that for more people. I
want people to be able to see themselves represented in a series like this. Part
of the books that made you cry? Basically the whole second half of Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The deaths were pretty rough. Which house
would you be in? For me, it's always been Hufflepuff, since I read the books when
I was a kid, up until the Pottermore quiz, which, I did get Hufflepuff, which is
great. It's not that I don't fit into any of the other houses, it's just that all
of the things that are most important to me are also important to Hufflepuff. I am
wearing my badger shirt today, gotta represent. And I really don't care if you
don't like Hufflepuff. If you don't think that being hard-working and determined
and valuing friendship are important things, that reflects more on you than it
does on me! Which class would be your favorite? I think I've been really into
care of magical creatures! I've always loved animals and magical creatures just
fascinate me and I would love to take a class all about them, which is another
reason why I've been so excited for the Fantastic Beasts series to be a thing and
I really enjoyed the magical creature element of that movie. Which spell do you
think would be the most useful? Hands-down, I've got to say apparating
would be amazing. I travel a lot and I like to travel, but there are a lot of
places that I would like to be and not enough time to get there. I'd love to go
visit my family more often, but they're too far away. I'd love to go to as many
different nerd conferences as I could but it's just
impossible. If I could just apparate, it would make my life so much easier.
What would your Patronus be? I always said when I had to guess, that my
Patronus would be a manatee because I've always loved them and I think they're
just amazing, gentle, beautiful creatures. I also think it would be kind of funny like
doing a spell, like this little person, and having the giant like sea cow
come out of the wand! That would be pretty cool, I think. but I took the
Patronus quiz on Pottermore and I got an aardvark! And I really like that! So I
think I'm going to stick with an aardvark! I feel like that's my
personality, I think it's freaking weird and I love it. Which character would you
instantly become friends with? Probably Luna because when I was in school,
everybody thought I was weird and so I kind of hung out with all the other
weird kids and so I think I would gravitate towards Luna for sure. Why are
questions like this so popular and why do you think there's such a tendency to
imagine yourself inside these books? This is another question that I added to the
list and I'm going to answer it with a story. When I was on tour a long time ago,
I was at a library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And after the show, the
library actually has their own podcast and they wanted to interview us for it.
And the people hosting the podcast were the librarian who was super awesome and
hosted tons of shows for us over the years, and then one of her teen interns
who was there. And they asked us why Harry Potter is such a big deal and why
so many people love it so much. And my answer was that the characters are so
relatable that you feel like you know them and a lot of us grew up with these
characters, we grew up alongside them, we got to see them as kids and saw them all
the way through their teenage years up until the point where they're 17. And so
for me, that was a really powerful thing. I wanted to know what was going to
happen to them. I felt like they were friends of mine that got me through a
lot of really rough times. I feel like everyone knows a kid like Neville or
knows someone like Hermione and I really do think that that's the reason why
people see themselves in this universe. And then the teen intern, who was a
little bit of a bully and not really very nice to us, basically reminded me
that these are made up children's stories and there might be something
wrong with me if I take them this seriously and that these characters are
not real people. In case you needed clarification, I am more than aware of that fact.
I just stopped talking during the podcast at that point and after we left,
I had kind of been turning this around in my mind a lot and I realized the
perfect comeback would have been just to turn to her and say "Okay, Malfoy." cause
really, we all know somebody like Draco Malfoy - that's why the things he did hurt
so much to read! Have you played any of the video games? Yeah! I played a bunch of
them. I had a Gamecube so I played like the first, the second, and the third I
believe? By far my favorite part of the video games was running around the
castle and doing spells. I felt like they were a little bit unbalanced, like some
of the earlier challenges were unnecessarily difficult and then the
later like, major bosses were really easy. So I definitely got stuck a lot and it
was a little bit frustrating as a game. But if they made a game where I could
just run around Hogwarts, I would be so happy. Were you happy with the ending?
Yeah! Honestly, I was kind of surprised at how happy I was at the ending. Going into
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I felt like there were so many open-ended
questions, that there was no way she's going to answer them all and honestly, I
think she did a pretty good job! It tied all together, I didn't see very
many of the twists coming, some of them I did, but it was still fulfilling for me
to read the ending of the story. I feel like it really reflects on the fact that
JK Rowling had a plan going into it and she knew how it was going to end. When
you go back and you reread it, you see little clues she left and it's really
clear that she didn't just make up the ending near the end. She had a plan of
where it was going to head and I think that that made it a lot more effective.
What did you think of Cursed Child? I have not seen the play, but I read the
script and I'm kind of wishing that I hadn't. Now that I know that it's coming
to Broadway and I'm hoping that I can get tickets, I'm really excited to go see
it played out, but it really, I feel like it was not intended to be enjoyed as a
script that you read. It needed to really be played out in front of you. I
feel like the play makes more sense as a play than it does as a book. But I really
liked getting to see Harry's development as a father. Obviously, he grew up without
a father and seeing the effects of all of the events that played out in the
original series was very interesting to me. So I
really really hope that I can get to go see the play and see it as it was
intended to be seen. What about Ilvermorny? I've been
thinking about working on a video about what happens when you grow up and the
things you love start to let you down. But with that said, I've been pretty
disappointed with the information we've received so far regarding Ilvermorny.
I don't know if that's something I want to get into today, but it's the reason
why I don't identify with a house and it's a reason why I haven't wanted to
make any Ilvermorny related crafts. I feel like we're going to hear more
about it in the later Fantastic Beasts movies because some of the characters
actually attended Ilvermorny. So maybe I'll change my mind later, but for now,
I'm just kind of pretending it doesn't exist. Favorite form of fan creation?
Oh man. I have to say Wizard Rock; I can't not say Wizard Rock for this answer.
Music based on the Harry Potter series has absolutely changed my life. The community
around it, the opportunities it's given me, the people I've met because of wizard
rock, it's such a huge part of my life and I love it.
It covers all genres, it's written by fans, there's a very DIY aspect of it.
Most people just record it themselves without any kind of representation or
record labels. When people are curious, I usually recommend that they go to a
concert because that is really how you find out what Wizard Rock is all about.
You get to hear the music, first of all, hear it performed live
because I feel like that's the best way to experience wizard rock, but there is
an energy around the community that is impossible to describe and the best part
about the whole thing. It's so accepting and warm and creative and beautiful and
I can't recommend it highly enough. Go to a wizard rock concert, if you can, at some
point in your life. How much does Harry Potter mean to you? Harry Potter means
everything to me. It's changed my life for the better, It's the reason why I met my
husband, it's given me the ability to do what I love for a living. It gives me a
way to connect with people; I feel like my entire generation has this thing in
common and it's amazing to me that I can make a video about Harry Potter and post
it on the internet and people find it and they engage with it and they
relate to it. How incredible is that? For more on this one, I started the Harry
Potter impact tag and I have a video where I answer a bunch of questions
about how Harry Potter has changed my life. Okay, so as it turns out, there is
basically a never ending list of questions you can ask Harry Potter fans!
If there are any questions that I didn't answer or you'd like me to elaborate
further, leave them in the comments below and maybe I'll make another video like
this in the future! And if you haven't already, definitely subscribe to my
channel if you've gotten this far. Because I make tons of Harry Potter
related videos and DIY tutorials inspired by the books, and I think you'll
like them. Plus we always chat a ton in the comments when the video is over and it's
always fun to make friends who like the same things you do. Thanks so much for
watching and I'll see you soon!
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